My wires have always been a bit frayed. [He waves a hand carelessly.] I developed a taste for violence early on but I choose to channel that bloodthirstiness into where it'd be most useful. For some strange reason, people don't take it well if you casually stab your neighbors.

[The last part is said as a joke but there is a underlying bit of truth there.]

Reverein proper is rather peaceful as a whole, but that isn't the case outside of it to varying degrees. I tend to go out on regular hunts to thin the population of those creatures that would gleefully do its citizens harm and think to get too close to town.