"Synodiporia is... a tournament of sorts, between us Arcana," he explains hesitantly. "It has been going on for... well, this is the seventeenth cycle. Last cycle's winner, Fortuna, chose the rules for this cycle - that being, that sentient creatures with ambition were to be selected at random to participate." There's a pause. "I did not choose to bring you here, nor did any of my other... compatriots. You were chosen at random out of billions of possible candidates."