You know it?

[Comprehension dawns, slower than it might have if he had all his wits and health about him.]

You're one of the combatants. I haven't met them all; I'm usually in central strategy, sometimes for a long time without a break.

[He's poisoned himself, but even without the curse and its compelled impulses, given his punishing routines, something like this was bound to happen sooner rather than later.]