"Uh, Liam?"

Cayden now Puts Liam At His Ease. You might think that it is hard to Put Someone At Their Ease if they're surrounded by adventurers who just rescued them from being tortured by goblins, but that is because you haven't reckoned with the power of Charisma 17. 

Charisma 17 is very powerful! He is so, so at ease. He's at ease enough that he'll admit he's going to put his adventuring days behind him. He doesn't care how much people are offering for the Nightsong, he's not doing that again.

The Nightsong?

Damn it, she can't even ask without drawing Cayden's attention.

"What's the Nightsong?"

"A powerful relic. The wizard Lorroakan is offering a pretty penny for it, but all he knows is that it's somewhere in an abandoned temple."

The name says so much. The Nightsong of the Nightsinger.

"Is that really all you've got to go on?"

"Look, the money is enough to make it worth looking in every abandoned shrine, fane, or temple from Calimport to Waterdeep-- or.  That's what we thought."

"Most people who go adventuring die. Before you go adventuring, you should have something worth adventuring for. Or like where you're going."

"...it sounded worth it at the time."

"Most things do."

"Anyway, I'm going back home. No matter what Aradin insists."

"I feel I should not pry about your old home," Halsin says to Cayden. "And I could claim I just want to see if everything is connected, but I will admit I am mostly curious."

"Well, from an interplanetary perspective the most interesting thing about my home planet is that we imprison an Evil being bent on devouring the entire universe, but it turns out that comes up surprisingly little in day-to-day life."

... "I hope the imprisonment is going well, if it does not come up much?"

"I fought one of its children once. Well, was part of a team that fought it. Nearly died several times, escaped by sheer dumb luck." (The rest of his team actually did die but that didn't make for fun stories.) 

"Ah, I see you have that problem as well."

"What problem?"

"Bhaal's-- the God of murder-- ambitions aren't so universal, to my knowledge, but he did have many children."

"I don't suppose any of them can be convinced that they want to murder demons and devils and daemons."

"A fair number rebelled against their father, but not many."

"What else is interesting about my home plane-- we don't have the Weave, you have to study for years to be able to cast cantrips. Our dead go to about half the number of planes that yours do. Our paladins are always Lawful Good, and there are antipaladins that are Chaotic Evil." He doesn't say anything about the differences in vampires. "We mostly have different gods, but some of them might be the same gods under different names. Clerics have different spells. I would say that our wildernesses are nicer to walk in but I suspect this to be an unusually terrible area."

"It has been better in the past, yes."

"Is there anything specifically you wanted to know? --We have druids too but I don't know that I've ever had a conversation longer than two minutes with one, they don't like people very much."