"The driving force behind it, aye, but never the direct hand. His will was that the prophecy fail - that the Firstborn never be given life, or did it come to be, that the Firstborn be his to control. The methods were up to the Ihlini that were, at the time, serving him in Valgaard. I don't know what came of it. I died when the only one with all the right blood was ten."