"Nobody knows for sure. I have a theory, though. It's all tied together with the troubles we had, and are still having. And why we don't have priests anymore. There was a... disagreement in ideology, and a group of people were imprisoned underground, secretly. Our people were divided, for hundreds of years. Each side was only half of the whole, and divided, our powers are much weaker."

He takes a sip of tea. "That's what I think, anyway."