All right. This will sound nuts, [Which is impressive considering everything about Thales and Shambala he just mentioned...] but back when I was still just a student at the Academy, I got dragged into another war in another world. That world was called Horos, and there was a being called the 'Regent' who wanted to destroy everything.

As far as I can tell, they won. We never stood a chance. But it wasn't until a little later in Fódlan's history that I found myself here and learned what had happened. Supposedly all the worlds are gone for real. Cyrus, the leader of Springstar and the Meridian, [he gestures around him--] thinks they can still be saved, though. Yima, leader of Highstorm and Zenith, thinks they're gone for good.

[That's a lot of information, so Claude pauses and grins at Byleth sheepishly.]

That's the short version, anyway. Make sense?