[There is a series of slow, appreciative nods as Gorthan turns towards the other creatures to inspect them.]

Magnificent. And now, I only wish I could reciprocate... but my creatures are nowhere as obedient as yours seem to be. They are all quite... energetic, the lot of them.

[He lifts a hand experimentally, trying to touch one of the Gladius.]

A soul fusing with an inanimate object... Truly, this is alchemy.