I think the closest we had to beings of great power and influence were the Abyssals, and of the old ones there were only three. One preferred to be alone, one targeted my kind in hopes of making allies of us, and the oldest had only other Awakened Beings as foot-soldiers. And then he sent them all off to die anyway, because they were no longer convenient to him.

[And that act had come back to bite him back hard... literally. But that's neither here nor there, is it?]

I hope it doesn't come to that, too. Ghalib's victims are just that, and I don't think anyone else here would appreciate us turning our blades on their fellows.