User blog comment:Whitennerdiest/Heros and Monsters Questions: New, Old, and Answered/@comment-58.165.77.86-20160208072049

As for Ironwood.

I think another Hunter did that to him, not on purpose though.

"Sometimes you see things that simply aren't there... even after the fight is past."

I think he may have been attacked by a fellow hunter suffering from some major trauma and/ or stress after an intense battle.