I may not be the first wayfarer

Or the last, at least according to one rather extravagant hypothesis, which proposes that the former Good Doctor, his spirit broken in his own torture chambers under the direction of Praetor Aric, upon release wandered into the same mountains, and was rescued in similar fashion by a band of these creatures. This picturesque theory goes on to posit that the real Author of the proverb-poem 'The Remnant Say...', as well as the haunting 'Rhapsody', is in fact this 'reconstituted' Good Doctor, not Egderus — the currently fashionable attribution.