...When I was a young man, her father took me in. Baron Eihner von Dutch taught me how to be a doctor, and in return I educated him all I knew on the Old Gods. I thought all I was doing was satiating a man's curiosity. An indulgence.

When I returned home from the war, both the baron and Elise were dead. The baron killed himself, and presumably his own daughter in some ritual. A god I didn't know.

I... gave everything to try to bring her back. [Absently, he rubs at the edge of his eyepatch.] I sacrificed parts of myself, but it was too late. I was too late.