Bishop Monologue
My debit to you is over Knight Captain. Don?t think this has anything to do with you. It doesn?t. But your uncle, he poisoned everything right from the start. You, I respect, but ol' Duncan... He just can't leave well enough alone sometimes. You see Duncan, he save my life once. Found me outside my burning village; nothing but dead Luskin all around. Thing is, I was the one who burned that place to the ground, and I didn?t want any witnesses. Then Duncan comes along, right when I was wounded, barely holding on, and I can?t do anything to silence him. That?s it really, nothing complicated, just settling debits that never should have been made. It was part of an initiation ceremony into a Luskin assassination squad, like ol' Lorrne once was. It's something they order all new recruits to do, whether they want to or not. And I don't care for that too much. You see, they order you to slaughter a Neverwinter village as part of the initiation ceremony. I decided to take care of two problems at once, and I chose my own. You see, for every West Harbor that gives rise to someone like you... Someone great.... there's a hundred of me, that end up going down the other path. And my village,... not worth talking about, it doesn?t even deserve to survive. So when they ordered me to destroy a village of my choosing, I saw a chance to kill the Luskins, and kill the place that helped make me the fine, upstanding man you see before you... all as a fortunate accident. I was going to burn the village to try and kill the Luskans who were watching over me. It was a trap... but those villagers, those fools, they wouldn't leave when I told them to, so they died too. I set a bunch of fire around the perimeter, let it all come circling in, and they all burned, like sheep trapped in a corral. I told them to leave, to run, but they wouldn't leave their houses, especially when I told them, so they deserved to die right along with the Luskins watching me. I took a few arrows, had some wounds, and to be honest, I wasn't sure I was going to get out of there alive. I was to weak to fight back, but it didn't matter, because for the first time, I felt all these chains come off of me. I felt free at last, but then Duncan came along right at the end, tying me to that place, tying me to Luskin, tying me to the past. He saved my life, and then he said I owed him - in that stupid joking voice of his, but I knew what he meant, he was blackmailing me with what he knew. Then he called his debt due, and that debt was to help you. And I had to do it, else he would have told everyone that I was at that village.. and then the Luskins would have come looking for me. I don?t like obligations like that. Or obligations like you.
