"...I lived a thousand years ago, with my family. Thoran, Pieda, Ven, Seph...but there was this guy. He called himself 'Wiseman,' and he kept telling people that he could help them 'realize the power of their own hearts.' He basically started a cult of people who wanted to strengthen their hearts. It was a trap."
"No, he was teaching people how to strengthen their hearts...so he could take them. Wiseman called itself 'we,' and kept telling people to 'be one with him.' There was a village called Rasalas. Wiseman and his followers went there one day...when they went back to Cujam, there were just shadows left in that village."
"We went to talk to him, maybe get him to stop, and he just shrugged us off. When we went back to our home in Naos...everyone was either taken or dead. Seph's fiance, Quis...he took it hard. So he came up with a plan. We'd go to Zaurak Keep, and we'd talk to the Dark Brethren...we sold our souls for the power to kill Wiseman."

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-Kranz walks off, going over this new information in his mind-