Draiss nodded, as if half expecting it. "That was the raw information, without my beyonder translating it for me. I can understand all of it, and couldn't be sure without trying to show someone else if they are understandable without a translator. Apparently, one is definitely needed. So, basis is that the multiplanarverse is 'painful/dangerous' to them just by existing, and encroaching on their 'territory' which is why they want to destroy it. My beyonder and the beyonder in the marilith I am against both managed to get into a host without getting killed, but the last one was shredded by the failing ritual and ended up in the six others. Which is why they are so unstable, they have dying pieces of a beyonder in them.<br/><br/>V'elen was the best and brightest of its beyonder subtype, and came here due to 'boredom,' chose me for 'potential' and has been feeding bits of information into my subconscious to see what I do with it. My mastery of balefire is the most obvious one. The reason it gave me that information is that the beyonders have something even bigger and nastier than them out there, referred to as THEM or THEY, who are killing them like they kill us. That is the other reason the beyonders are coming here, to get more room so they can get further away from THEM."<br/><br/>He paused, and gave them a ghost of a smile, before shrugging. "Anyone questioning the need for that week off and orgy now?"