Enrico (narrating): It wasn’t part of the theatrics of the masquerade. This was something old, and dark, and very real. As best we could figure out later, we had woken it up.

The concentration of faith at Catholicon was a thorn in its side, and it had come to destroy the thorn.

Renaldo: Is this for real?

Heinkel: Honestly, it’s just as likely that we woke it up by being too noisy. But the giant wolf-demon’s existence? He’s actually not making that up.