Well...alright. That explanation is enough to mollify Dion's temper, his horned head lowering and brow smoothing out a bit. He can even make sense of it. The spirits, or 'ka' as the stranger clarifies, sound more and more like Eikons. More numerous and most certainly less powerful, but manifesting within a specific person...

Even their use is painfully familiar.

"A pharaoh is a king of some sort," he begins with, wanting to be sure he has the right idea. It may have been more like Sanbreque's emperor, said to be the goddess Greagor made flesh, if the pharaoh had priests of their own. Which makes the idea of the ka being harvested hit even closer to his heart. "...mens' hearts are too readily turned to wickedness by the promise of power. It stirs a thirst for more, even should it mean stealing it away from the very people one is meant to govern and protect."