Oh yes, perhaps I should mention something a bit... Shall we say concerning that the white haired madman mentioned.

He said that he had seem things that should not and cannot be, such as the fall of the Sixth City, the death of the stars, and - these are his words, not mine, though he did utter them at a much greater volume than I care to use - "The Black Thing that has seeped, seeped into the Between. The between of all Things."