User blog comment:Doctor Ibrahim/The Fatekeeper/@comment-28718853-20161124020325/@comment-28358106-20161124034818

He regards the new arrival with his black gaze while his wives look on passively. Heloise is suddenly behind Flamer, pulling out a chair.

"Be seated, traveler," he says, his voice heavy with dark charm, '"and listen well.  Heed the words of the Infinite, that you may learn." '

'"My brother and I are bound.  I am that which was made real by the Crucible.  I am regret and bitterness and the thoughs of death and despair made flesh, having been born from his own thoughts when he traveled here, through the eternities.  We fought.  We bargained.  We planned.  We destroyed.  Through the lifetimes we were forced to repeat, we came to an understanding: we were bound with one soul, and until one of us gained his natural end, we would remain so.  I will not recount the details of the Glyph, or the Red Mindflayer that decieved us.  I will, instead, tell you this." '

"Our bargain is thus: while my brother has mastery of the Crucible through the Glyph, he cannot control it, lest he surrender his life as it is known.  Trapped here are the Infinite number of memories stolen by the Red Mindflayer, and such is the power of the Crucible, that it is capable of bringing them to life, or taking the traveler to any one of the threads of fate that they contain.  An insurmountable power, and far too powerful for any but those  who understand its true implications.  Because my brother would never become keeper of this, the Memento Mori, we have struck this bargain."

'"While he holds the true key to the Crucible and the power it contains, I am its keeper.  I am the Warden of the Fates that linger here, and Master of this realm, this, we preserve the balance that must be kelt.  He does not interfere with my affairs here, and I do not interfere in his." '

Mostly... Aidlis says.