Bab 176: Dungeon Dive Redo: II

"It sounds like you are helping the draconids," said Thokk, suspicion leeching from his voice. "How can we trust you? When you hide so much?"

"I have placed it upon myself to guard the Rift so that it may bring forth the End. I care not how the End is brought. If it was that the End was such that these Old Gods were all to be awakened in eternal winter, as is foretold among some peoples of this land, then I would not have stopped it," said Kui. "But if it was that the Old Gods were to be killed and their power taken for the purpose of another Endbringer, then I will not truly stop it either.

In battling Valtr, the leader of the draconids, I came to understand that he, too, possesses pure intent to bring forth the End."

"The End?" said Goromir. "But the Sovnar only wishes to bring forth his rule."