"I suppose..." Gareth was still a little unsure of the likelihood of Thomas's victory, however high it was. His blue eyes made eye contact with Sophia, and again they mirrored the wonderment he had before. "Is that so?" That must've given Lyok a tactical advantage in wars, Harker assumed, and likely made Lyok a strong empire. "That in itself is like its own sort of magic." Being a half-elf, he had the immunities of both humans and elves. Like those of similar kin, most poisons were ineffective to his kind, and that made him and others killable by a small number of extremely rare and difficult-to-fabricate poisons. He was sure Sophia would already know this, thus he neglected to mention it. Ah yes, the Lyoki Serpent... Most of their religion seemed to be primarily superstition. He bet their immunities more on genealogy than on their deity. He looked back to the field, noticing Thomas prepared for combat and admiring him from afar with his eyes.