"They did not want to know about anything, they did not care about the dilemmas that drove sleep from the eyes of kings, sorcerers, rulers and leaders, the problems that made councils, councils and thoughts tremble and hum. For them, nothing existed that happened beyond the passes drowning in snow, beyond Gwenllech, carrying ice blocks in a leaden stream. For them, there was only Kaer Morhen, a lonely castle lost in the wild mountains."