"No? At least none of our powers do."

"You'll be fine, then. Witchcraft tends to glow red, and that's illegal here."

"Alright. I just want to take a flight around."

Assuming there is no reason not to. He will do that.

As he takes off, Ari shows up, followed by his contingent.

And a strange woman.

"Li-Ming," he says, unusually subdued. "This... is my mother, Adria."

Fernando lands fast enough to catch that.

"Hi... Adria," Gabe says after a moment, they likely don't share last names, "your son is pretty great."

"Oh, isn't he?" Adria smiles. "I did try to make him that way."

Ari ignores her. "Adria says she knows of a way to contain the Evils once they've been defeated, and she needs our help. Apparently there's an ancient Horadrim who created an artifact which could help us, but it was buried in his inner sanctum, which only he could access. He's long dead, but if we found his body, we could perform a diabolic ritual to return him to life, he could let us into his sanctum, and we could end the Evils once and for all."

"Okay... how dangerous is the diabolic ritual?"

"Better yet, can we use it on anyone?"

Adria speaks up. "The ritual is not dangerous... but no. Zoltun Kulle did things to his soul that even I hesitate to speak of, to bind it to this world and allow it to return as the demons do. This ritual will simply speed up a process which is already taking place."

Nod. He figures that his brothers would've been much happier about this.

"Okay, this sounds potentially dangerous, but I guess we can make it less so by putting the dude under a ward." Pause. "We can probably do something to keep him under control as well."

"Good idea," Adria says firmly. "Frankly, I would recommend that you gain access to his inner sanctum, then kill him immediately. A world with Zoltun Kulle running rampant is only marginally better than a world with the Evils."

Gabe looks between Ari and his mother. He pats Ari's shoulder. "I am sure we can do something timed or whatever. These guys are pretty smart, you know."

"Any reason why we couldn't find his inner sanctum ourselves?"

"It's an enchanted pocket dimension keyed to his magic," Adria explains. "I don't know what you boys can do, but I'd be very surprised if you can break in."

"Ah."

"We will come up with something."

"Well, what do we need to do for this ritual?"

"You'll need Kulle's corpse, which can be found somewhere beneath the Desolate Sands. In order to find that, you'll need to find his head, which was separated from the body when he was slain by the other Horadrim. Fortunately, we have a better idea of the head's location; it's in an ancient tomb beneath the Dalghur Oasis. Guarded by demons and monsters, of course, but who said this was going to be easy? Anyway, his head is still alive, and it can guide you to the body; with the body, we can resurrect him; and with his help, we can retrieve the Black Soulstone."

"Sounds like a good time for everyone involved. Probably a much better time than Kulle's head had in a while."

She chuckles and pats Gabe on the head. "I'm glad someone will be having fun."

"Well, do we have any preparations to... prepare before we go to the oasis thing?"

"The triplet said something about trying to curse the regent with eternal sleep? I think it might be a good idea to get that out of the way."

"I will deal with that."

And Felix procures ritual instructions and supplies.