"I recognize this sharp mind, and his peculiar wit. This joke has an explanation, and I shall give it to you:

"I recognize this sharp mind, and his peculiar wit. This joke has an explanation, and I shall give it to you: the heroes who went down into the dungeon to defeat the Spawn have all died, and it fed upon their pain. In the same way, the Captor nourished the daemon, by serving him his own soul. He wishes on me the same fate, just as he wrote on these rings: that I should go down to fight the Spawn, only to vanish and become its food."