... The same way we have done for the rest of the country. The curse is caused by a—I do not know what to call it, beyond its name of "Sister". You can think of it as a false gem that sings what, all my life, I thought was the sound of silence, cursing the land as it does so.

[A low humming that has always been there since he was born.]

There was one at every corner of the land: east, north, west, and south. We have destroyed the first three. I was in the process of defeating the last, hidden in the capital, before arriving here.