[There's a mental equivalent of a raised brow at the comparison, but he doesn't argue further.]

I've seen the pointlessness of warfare before. I was present at Carteneau. [Which he says, before it occurs to him a moment later no one else is from his world, and won't know what that means.] Thousands of people died in that battle, and that was before a primal was released from the lesser moon and unleashed a Calamity that killed even more people.

I come from a nation that took to subjugating dozens of countries. There was a time I even designed the weapons used in those campaigns. It's because of all of that I refuse to have anything to do with bloodshed.

[He pauses, more to gather his thoughts than for dramatic effect.]

...since coming to Kenos, I have become a healer.

[It's an offer, a promise. Should something happen during the Oracle.]