Throughtout your travels and adventures Raphael had been a constant factor. Well, as constant as a devil that showed up whenever he wanted was. When he did he tried to mildly threaten you or smooth talk you into deals. His latest, the Orphic for the Crown of Karsus, was declined after your companions berating you on how stupid it would be to accept.

He had been furious at that time, not that he showed it. But now he'd get his way. Keeping tabs on his little mouse before the final battle revealed that you had angered the Emperor and were left alone in the Astral Realm without the means to free Orpheus. He had taken his opportunity to appear.

Here we all are, at the end of everything. The final stanza.