In short order, quarters are found for your tribespeople in the Citadel, which seems as if it was built for ten or twenty times as many people as now inhabit it. It takes you some time, walking down the shadowy, vaulted corridors, before you find your host's quarters.
You enter into an antechamber of sorts—a spacious room dominated by a dining table. A fire burns in the grate, and Matthais sits before it. He turns as you enter the room and gestures for you to take a seat beside him.
"It's incredible, isn't it?" he begins, looking up at the vaulted, dark ceiling of his quarters. "What men can achieve. Take the Eight themselves—working together, they were able to make great leaps in our understanding of magic, of philosophy, and of humanity. Even the secrets of life and death were revealed before their gaze."