Regarding the Magician, Who Was, in Fact, a Two-Faced Liar Mist is revealed to be 600 years old and the greatest magician alive. He admits to ordering Hanzum to drive good adventurers away from Mardat and replace them with bad adventurers, so that when the Uprising occurred only they would die. He chose to do this because the one man in the Royal Capital who controls all guilds in the country ordered him to hide the Uprising so as not to panic the entire country. Mist reveals that the stone towers around the city were designed to be powered by Ralma’s fire magic...