Briefly, Xander had considered forming a more worthy party. He could contact Bloodthorne and call in his I-resurrected-your-woman favor, and maybe even said saved woman would come along, the ability to talk to trees potentially useful in the Kvesari Wood. As for expendable brute strength, he could also convince that big dumb holy knight from Valcord’s temple that this was a worthy crusade to die for. But pride was an Abyss of a hindrance, and while the idea was a fun alternative third act, his party needed to be made up of the characters who had been influencing him throughout the rest of his
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