I know exactly what you are talking about and I thought it was Toland the first time I saw it, too. Upon furthur research I decided we couldn't conclusively say that, but it could be him. I question why it is a Ball of Blight and not Light, though. Some claim it to be Oryx. That makes little sense if you consider that it is leading us to Brands and helping find our way to [i]stop[/i] Oryx. Maybe he was just keeping the fight fair, though. To truly beat us. The biggest counter I have against Toland is that he never expected us to do what the little ball of blight led us to do: [quote]You were not supposed to touch the Light. How did you find your way into the King's Cellars? How did you even recognize that benighted draught for what it was? Do you not know that the Hive pursue Light precisely for the purpose of devouring it with slavering jaws and slick greedy gulping throats? How did you take (or rather, un-Take) the Blighted Light that Oryx gathered to offer in sacrifice to Akka, and ignite it so that it burned and burned the Darkness? It was barely Light anymore. But you took it. And when you took it, you did not keep it. You set it free.[/quote] Another possibility is that it was Oryx's sister(s), trying to kill him. I doubt it though. On another note, we left a huge power vacuum in the Sword-Logic universe. There [i]has[/i] to be a strongest. Stuff is going to go DOWN when someone tries to prove its them.