Linden certainly gives that impression. Even his biggest fans have a hard time denying there's a strange absence of light in those eyes, or that there had been an enormous and troubling difference between the youth who'd entered the Arena and the glaring wraith who'd been dragged out. Soulless.

"Reverence isn't exactly the word I'd use..." he murmurs. "But 'chains', that's... actually incredibly apt, isn't it? Quite perfect in fact."