Draiss shrugged, before leaning back into his chair. "The fact that his prison plane was draining my divine energy in an attempt to kill me, and nearly destroyed one of my avatars after a mere week in it kind of pulls the rug from that theory. And another thing I noticed is that Niara is not currently trying to hinder me, due to the wards around my domain, paranoia actually being a boon here, but when she was outside it, she actively tried to kill me. Made getting her from Union to my domain interesting, truth be told, but what I am hoping is that Svala is the same. That the Beyonder taint is what is controlling her, and removing or distorting it to differentiate herself from it might allow me to control her long enough to toss her into an area where the Beyonder taint won't be able to control her. I can then purge it, temporarily, but a permanent solution is... oddly difficult, due to not having a number of people with the taint to experiment on cleansing."