As reality returns, Valadain collapses, overcome with the effects of what he has learned.
Reality in the form of awakening...a higher purpose...
His face patterned with tears, he is still grateful. Freed of the poison, and shown the correct path - that followed by Malkar himself.
Malkar and Valadain are linked...as surely as the White Woman caressed them after Malkar's savage slaughter, her touch limked their paths forever. She knows it, Malkar knows it...and who else?
Redemption.
Illiem Runesabre must be saved from his dark past. His service to Sarik proves his yearning for the light; it must be possible to rescue him from his necromancy and whatever dark bonds tie him to Malador.
A noble quest worthy of a priest of Malkar the White. Your first instinct is probably the right one - would Sarrik Ramadius II knowingly align himself with a chancellor so tainted? You would think he would know better...
And the Glaenynn must fly again. So that Malador and Azael may be thrown back from this world.
It seems that way...
Head high, he strides from the room, and back to his companions.