"Oh. Ah..."

Tolten glanced down at the card before him, gold glitter becoming the rays of a rising sun. Well, he had opened the door for the conversation.

"A great and final battle against a powerful evil," he explained, and realized that probably didn't help very much. But since Mikado didn't seem as outraged or confused by the idea of magic or great clashes to save the world, he didn't mind too much.

"There was a sorcerer who rose to power through vile magic and trickery," he tried again. How strange, to try and explain what had happened to someone who wasn't even from Plank! "He built great and horrible machines that interrupted the natural flow of energy in the world, so he could command it. Animals turned violent and weather behaved improperly and a dark time was falling upon the world. Every nation was at war due to the manipulations of one man, to keep all of us too blind and busy to see what he was doing. He tried to become a god - very nearly did, to be honest. We...stopped him. Well, a mage and an Immortal stopped him, really. A dear friend was lost but my home was saved. And I was there."

More than once, but the first time he had found himself on the wrong side. He hadn't known! Not that ignorance was ever an excuse for harm....