<br/><br/>Even Vili was starting to look annoyed with his cryptic statements and sheer stubbornness, and now the little imp rubbed her temples and sighed, saying out loud this time "They are both being stubborn, stupid boys and i've had enough of it. Streban, I told the countess here about your stupid quest to kill Galanoth, and she is going to help us save him so that neither of you two idiots kills the other when you should be killing other darklords together so that we can return to Illithene and punish the ones who cast you out!." she turned to Ivy again, gesticulating wildly as she spoke "They were both so unbelievably badass! Smiting their enemies, ruling with an iron fist, squashing dissent and crushing pathetic 'freedom fighters'! It still makes me all wet just thinking about it! But now look at him!"<br/><br/>Streban was, for possibly the first time ever, struck speechless at her pronouncement. But Vili was still furious  "This foolish man was once the most vicious of fiends one could hope to find on any world, and is in fact a Dark Lord himself - or he was until he and Galanoth were defeated and cursed by another Dark Lord. My dear Streban caught a debilitating case of guilty conscience because his own people turned against him in favor of the usurper. Galanoth, on the other hand, has likewise gone mad and decided he would come to this land and take another Dark Lord's power to use against that golden-haired strumpet, but he has no idea how outmatched he is against the devil Strahd."<br/><br/>NOW Streban had something to say "I will not allow him to bring darkness back to that realm, nor any other. We deserved to be overthrown. We both deserve far worse, actually. Not only did i fail as a ruler, but i allowed my dearest friend to become a monster because i was too stupid to heed his counsel. I owe it to the men we both once were to end his existence and return us both to the Dark Lady's embrace."