Which would be why I was allowing for you to be very bad at them. I was not exactly prepared to allow for him to be... to think that would... There was more to it, certainly. Unless it was 'four men with swords to every mage before they have a chance to become an abomination?' I've heard that one.

[His voice goes a little deeper, mocking an unknown speaker.]

"If all the mages are dead we'll never have any problems with abominations! Or mages! They're curses anyway!"

[His voice goes back to normal.]

Something like that?