Glad you enjoyed it! I figured it'd be nice to have a serious character with a grimmer backstory that isn't just edgy. Hopefully I managed to convey it through the narrative and the side story at the end, but Rigard is a fundamentally broken man, who only managed to get through "unscathed" by the touch of the Void by effectively boiling his entire life down into a single concept. Needless to say, that concept was holding the line. After all, it's a lot easier to maintain and remember one really important thing than to maintain and remember ones entire history and sense of self.