I had nothing to do with the Oath, and I am not caught in its treachery. I did what I could to try and talk sense into them, but they would not hear it. In the end, we parted ways. I could not bear to watch them march to their Doom, and none could be persuaded to remain with me.

He is not an idiot. Merely ignorant in matters that happened in ages before his birth in lands he has never seen, which did not affect him or his people directly as it did for mine. Meanwhile, I bore witness, but even so, I do not claim to know truly all the events that took place on the other side of the Sundering Sea to which he bore witness. We only know what others have said.