Rift and the unexplained

I am playing this game Rift it’s a MMO like World of Warcraft. I was exploring this one zones looking for a person that sells PVP (player versus player) gear. After finding him and picking up a couple pieces of gear I was having alook around and decided to climb this mountain, at the top was a water fall flowing down the other side and a nice grove.

In Rift there are artifacts that you collect they are little glowing balls hidden all over the place, behind rocks or bushes or on top of fence posts it's like an Easter egg hunt. The artifacts are grouped in sets, when the set is complete you turn it in for a coin which you use to buy gear, pets or mounts.

Back to the mountain on its top is the grove which is full of these artifacts just sitting there for the picking. There is one other interesting item in this grove, an unlit torch planted in the ground. This torch is very hard to see but the fun starts you go stand next to it, the torch lights up a bunch of squirrels start dancing around the torch. I have no idea why this is here or what it represents, I could Google it to find out but I think I will try to discover the meaning on my own. unexplained.