"Your first bit of news is disturbing to say the least," Alexander begins to answer your list of questions. "The second thing we don't have anything on Xiphid, but there is a tribe in the swamp that has the ancient volumes that would be able to help you."
"Well Mass was not your average wizard, top of his class all 12 years he was here. His power vered more towards necromancy and the dark arts. He searched the world when he became a Blue Wizard, to find a tome to increase his powers. He must have found it. When he came back there was a dark aura about him. We don't know what dark transformation he underwent but it tripled his casting strenght. He became able to control hundreds of skeletonal minions, and have two or three much stronger undead minions. After this he destroyed a hamlet, the name escapes me, just to raise their corpses as zombie minions for his new world army. We captured him and imprisioned him. But even without his spells he was deceitful enough to make his way out of our prision and escaped. We have been looking for him ever since." Alexander look more serious than you have seen him since you came in, with his jaw clenched.
"On the fourth question of memory restoration, I may have an answer," Alexander turns around and pulls a wodden vial holder with 9 vials. "I have worked something a little more arcane up, different than what you got from Brother Markus. He and I chatted about you. We decided that what he used was too weak so I concocted this from materials we had here."
"So who wants to give this one a try?"