I may not be the first
Or the last, at least according to one rather extravagant theory, which proposes that the former Good Doctor, his spirit broken in his own torture chambers under the direction of Praetor Aric, upon release wandered into the same mountains, and was rescued in similar fashion by a band of these creatures. This theory goes on to say that the real source of the proverb-poem "The Remnant Say..." (q.v.), as well as the haunting "Rhapsody" (q.v.) is this "reconstituted" Good Doctor, not Egderus — the currently fashionable attribution — or even these creatures, as another interesting if implausible hypothesis has it.