doctor yewll (trenna keating), while examining sukar, finds out why sukar "rose" and why he was healing so fast. it was not because of the god irzu but because of little robots called nanites that were injected into his body by the razor rain object. now that defiance is safe, the nanites have gone dormant, and will no longer heal sukar's injuries. sukar survived the fall from the arch, but he is paralyzed and in coma.