[ Emet-Selch's methods... Hythlodaeus can imagine how those could have gotten out of hand without anyone else to temper him. They've spent so many eons as a sounding board for each other - Azem, too. Any one of them would have gone into this crippled without the others.

He gives a soft sigh, shaking his head. ] He would not have been his best, but he would have fought all the same. As you would, I assume. Me... I doubt I would have had the forbearance to last nearly as long as either of you.