[Zelgadis had to turn away during the last moments of that memory. He's already seen it far too many times, in his nightmares.]

... He said that he simply gave me the strength that I desired. And I... believed him, for a while.

But... some time later, I did learn the real reason.

Rezo was born blind. He studied the healing arts in order to cure himself, and became a great sage. But even though he could cure the eyes of others, he could never heal his own. He grew desperate... turned to other methods.

I discovered he had been conducting chimera research in secret. He believed he could gain sight by fusing another creature to himself, or by creating a compatible body and transferring his soul into it. What happened to me was merely an experiment to that end.