[Duplar]

"My name is now Duplar, and it is so because the 'noble' house I was born
into denies me my familly name.   But just as the Guild has and the Accademy
is learning it must, the noble houses of the Kandar will eventually learn
that Humans are good for more than drudgery.   Either that or they will find
that they are no longer as noble as they would like to believe.

"I have studied the art of finding things with my mind, but I need something
to use as a link.   Have we anything which might serve as such?

"By the way, the sword is exactly what it seems - a tool which has been used
for killing.   It has killed too many too recently for me to tell much more
than that."