“I am Zeantera Ar-Ir Or’Reanon. A killer, a vengeful one; someone even called me the Lyncher and the Reaper of the Abyss. But by my nature I am a redeemer, the bearer of the Highest Speech—and the last of my kind, a reanorec. I killed, destroyed, exterminated, scorched, and erased whole cities and peoples from the face of Merrawvin—in the name of revenge and redemption. But it’s not for nothing that they love to philosophize, those gnarled stumps of the human race—because one man alone is not a soldier. So it happened to me… But the one I have been devoted to since birth—the one to whom I owed for the sins of my own people—did not remain indifferent to my efforts…