"Why do you care so much about that runt? Certainly, I'll tell you, why not? The assault on the mansion was hi

"Why do you care so much about that runt? Certainly, I'll tell you, why not? The assault on the mansion was his own idea. The only thing he had to do was infiltrate your group and use it to find a certain artifact in the Stolen Lands. You see... just like you, I am the plaything of a certain lady. She's been searching for that artifact for hundreds, perhaps thousands of years. And who found it? You guessed it — our purple friend! All these centuries, and that magic chunk of wood was hiding under the roots of the Old Sycamore. I guess the whole tree grew from it."