???: well, you were about to walk into a gang meeting they had staged for you. I tried to talk you out of it, but you didn't want to listen. so I had to hit you over the head and bring you to this shed in the woods
Aerus: "Me and Aelitinus were originally intended to contain the Light, but we weren't truly hollow and the Pale King was stupid and forgot to throw us into the Abyss."
Aerus: "Basically, big dangerous glowing moth takes over kingdom built by Wyrm dude, so Wyrm seals big angry moth in dream and vessel as an attempt to save kingdom, fails, then everybody is dead. That's it in short."