Thel's Greatest Journey

"He's alive, you know. Hurt, by all means. You clearly weren't the man you were, before. You're much more of your former sense now, of course. Hey, you got out of your baker-fueled slump. Good on you, buddy. You did a real good job at proving you aren't a useless bum. This is good news, you know. Means that your kid's still out there. Still kicking. So, when we're done, you can go off, and catch up with the lil guy. Although... that may take a while. No promsies that he won't be an adult by then. At least you won't have to try and defend him again, like before,"
 

- Morden, speaking to Thel 'Aldama, about his son.

  Thel 'Aldama was a broken man, during the end of the Founding Lands. He lost his life, his wife, and, to his knowledge, his son. When he was brought back to the land of the living, stripped from his Great Journey's End, he was furious. His original goal, in this mechanical body, was to simply return back to Tyffon, and escape from his steel prison, and return to the Great Journey's End. He knew that his old friend was likely to stay in Tyffon, and that the South Pole of Aitso was no place for him. He had no knowledge of the land, and everything seemed alien. Upon reaching a small town, beyond the realm of Ebermold, Morden, the Guildmaster who had ownership over Thel, had bestowed upon him a dreadful secret. His son had survived, and had sworn vengeance on those that had done this to his family. Thel had no clue whether to be happy, or be worried. He had already gone down a path of revenge and violence, and it ended up with him being shackled. Was his son to suffer the same fate as him?
  It could be said that, for those who had heard of Thel's rebirth, that he had become a changed man. The same could be said for Gormand, when he took up a sword for the first time. In both accounts, the father and the son had turned out to be critical towards their own conquests. Thel was responsible for saving the barrier that kept Morden and other manic beings from pushing their dreadful schemes beyond the South Pole, and Gormand was the holder of the Excalibur of the One True King.