"Could it be that you know me only with my helm on, as Nero's bodyguard Cerberus? It was my title, as was the Blade of the Rose Empress, but... you know me now as dictator of Rome. Strange. I was introduced to you some months ago when Nero came to visit you and Arthur."

And now he looks a bit puzzled as well. The readiness seems to dim, just as bit, as he speculates on her condition, "You were not struck by sorcery or some sort of sky-magicks, were you? I know such things can affect the mind, or bring forgetfulness."

His own madness in the Ruins of Istvaan were proof enough of that, for it was in those days that he was first known as Cerberus, the hound that guarded the gates of hell.