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According to Athos, the pair becomes friends due to their shared love of scholarly study and desire to uncover the world's secrets.<ref name=met_athos></ref> After their meeting, the pair happens upon a mixed [[dragon]]-[[human]] village populated by refugees from the Scouring. Nergal and Athos use their magical skills to create an oasis, which eventually gains the name [[Arcadia (location)|Arcadia]], in the desert for the dragons and humans there. Athos and Nergal are then welcomed into the settlement.<ref>{{cite|Nergal and I crafted a barrier and created an oasis for them. Upon their invitation, we lived there with them. Our life there... It was calm and satisfying. At some point, the village became known as Arcadia, a place of perfect peace for travelers gone astray.|[[Athos]]|The Blazing Blade}}</ref> | According to Athos, the pair becomes friends due to their shared love of scholarly study and desire to uncover the world's secrets.<ref name=met_athos></ref> After their meeting, the pair happens upon a mixed [[dragon]]-[[human]] village populated by refugees from the Scouring. Nergal and Athos use their magical skills to create an oasis, which eventually gains the name [[Arcadia (location)|Arcadia]], in the desert for the dragons and humans there. Athos and Nergal are then welcomed into the settlement.<ref>{{cite|Nergal and I crafted a barrier and created an oasis for them. Upon their invitation, we lived there with them. Our life there... It was calm and satisfying. At some point, the village became known as Arcadia, a place of perfect peace for travelers gone astray.|[[Athos]]|The Blazing Blade}}</ref> | ||
After their welcome, they are allowed to make use of the dragon's collection of knowledge. Nergal and Athos studied in the village for at least two centuries.<ref>{{Cite|We studied their language and history with unbridled passion. A century, then two... Time passed in an eye's blink.|[[Athos]]|The Blazing Blade}}</ref> At some point, Nergal began dabbling in the art of turning life force into raw power using information from the dragon libraries. As these studies involved taking the lives of living beings, Athos and the village elders strongly objected to Nergal's actions.<ref>{{cite|Ah, Nergal... He took the dragons' knowledge... He learned the art of stealing the essence from living creatures and turning it into power. ...It was terrible. When we discovered what he was doing, the elders and I tried to persuade him to stop.|Athos|The Blazing Blade}}</ref> After being unable to persuade Nergal to stop his studies, a violent conflict | After their welcome, they are allowed to make use of the dragon's collection of knowledge. Nergal and Athos studied in the village for at least two centuries.<ref>{{Cite|We studied their language and history with unbridled passion. A century, then two... Time passed in an eye's blink.|[[Athos]]|The Blazing Blade}}</ref> At some point, Nergal began dabbling in the art of turning life force into raw power using information from the dragon libraries. As these studies involved taking the lives of living beings, Athos and the village elders strongly objected to Nergal's actions.<ref>{{cite|Ah, Nergal... He took the dragons' knowledge... He learned the art of stealing the essence from living creatures and turning it into power. ...It was terrible. When we discovered what he was doing, the elders and I tried to persuade him to stop.|Athos|The Blazing Blade}}</ref> After being unable to persuade Nergal to stop his studies, a violent conflict that resulted in Nergal being disfigured and driven from the village occurred.<ref>{{cite|He started with small creatures and grew ever more confident. Then, he began draining the quintessence of humans. The villagers and I joined forces and... defeated him. Or so we thought, but...|[[Athos]]|The Blazing Blade}}</ref> Nergal then went into hiding in [[Bern]] and amassed power slowly and began production of [[morph]]s.<ref>{{cite|After he was banished from Arcadia, Nergal fled to Bern. He increased his power slowly to avoid our eye. Using quintessence, he made his "puppets," the morphs.|[[Athos]]|The Blazing Blade}}</ref> Athos and the village elders anticipated that Nergal would eventually return to the village to attempt to harvest the life force of a dragon; Athos steels himself for an unwinnable conflict with Nergal. However, this never occurs and Nergal remains in hiding; Nergal is not known to have ever made an attempt to return to Arcadia.<ref>{{cite|'''[[Athos]]:''' When Nergal began using morphs to carry out his plans, his power had grown beyond our ability to contain him. After humans, his next target became the essence of dragons. His next target had to be Arcadia. I concealed our paradise behind a curtain of sandstorms. I then hid in the underground ruins and waited for him. I did not hope to defeat him. Just to exchange blows... and then draw him into the desert, which would be his end.<Br>'''[[Eliwood]]:''' But Nergal never showed up, did he?<Br>'''Athos:''' Correct.|[[Athos]] and [[Eliwood]]|The Blazing Blade}}</ref> | ||
===Taking control of the [[Black Fang]]=== | ===Taking control of the [[Black Fang]]=== | ||
