The two he leaves behind look rather distraught to be losing him, though they nod, and sit down to wait patiently, though they don't look happy about it, especially as the one chosen almost seems to gloat about it.<br/><br/>Draiss' ruse, of course, works, despite the rather outlandish story, and he manages to learn a fair bit about what happened. As the forces of evil, the horrible, inhuman monsters that still rule much of the world, closed in on the last human kingdoms, united by a powerful lich, the heroes set out, to slay the lich, and depreciate the army's lead. Their mission succeeded at what might have been the last possible moment, the cohesion of the enemy army falling apart, in the face of the human's well-defended fortress, and the united tribes split into bickering and in-fighting, and humanity let them break themselves on each other, and their impregnable walls. Of the fifteen heroes who set out, along with the large strike force, only seven returned; Draiss, of course, knew of the loss of four, but the story goes that four turned coward and tried to flee, and were cut down by their former allies, for abandoning the quest.