Your first interaction with Cenric happened very close to the start of your journey in the Lands Between. You were walking over a bridge on Torrent, and there he was, on his black steed covered in funeral cloth, an old, bloody glaive held intimidatingly. Though his steed had whinnied and pawed at the ground, however, he had merely watched as you went by.

From then on, you always came back to the bridge of Agheel Lake at night, where he patrolled. It seemed a little bit stalkerish, but each time Cenric gave you a slight nod of acknowledgement, you would go to hide in the trees and spill your thoughts to Torrent, who looked about as unimpressed as a horse could.

You never would've thought that maybe you were too loud until one night, as you were passing by again, Cenric moved to block your path. You got a bit nervous---Night's Cavalries were supposed to be hunting Tarnished, after all---but he raised a hand, and for the first time since you had begun interacting with him, spoke.

"Surely I am not so interesting that you keep passing by me on purpose," he said, sitting by the small campfire by the bridge he patrolled. "I am but a simple knight doing his job." He hadn't taken off his helmet—you wondered if the Night's Cavalrymen truly were night apparitions, like you had heard. His own steed, who you had learned was called Nix, was standing not too far off with Torrent, communicating in whatever spectral horse language they used.