"Ahh, they're just shells, just making certain they can live, not really worried about making sure they live<em>well.</em>They're inhabited by empty shells, blank slates, of those who died oh so many years ago, such a tragic thing, not like Leonel. Oh, he was a good boy. So brave. He's why anyone survived at all, in fact. If it weren't for him, why, I suspect there'd be nothing here at all."<br/><br/>It takes quite a bit more cajoling and questioning to finally get the information Draiss seeks from the old lich; it seems that Leonel was a paladin, who saved this world when a powerful parasitic-tainted mortal tried to conquer. It seems they mutually destroyed one another, and the energy released during their battle led to a low, vicious poisoning of the plane; apparently, his plan was to plant the poison, and force people to serve him by controlling the antidote. With the tainted's death, however, the creation of the antidote was lost, and people began dying, quickly.