Ah... perhaps it would be *wise* to be informed about your future master.

I have lived for a number of centuries, slowly decaying into the figure you see before you... though that is but one reason I seek the Black Cauldron; a power that would grant me the powers of a god; immortality, strength and an army of Cauldron Born at my command. Yes... that power will soon be mine. How *long* I have thirsted to be a god among mortal men.

I also hold no tolerance for blithering inadequacy... *Creeper.*