"To end the war, they sought to discover its origin." Because this is the last of the tea, he is drinking it slowly, savoring it along with the story. It's as he warned Galahad; he can't tell this half as evocatively as Claudius did. But recounting it makes him fond of the man who told it to him anyway. "They contacted Lady Iceheart, the leader of a group of heretics who were on the side of the dragons."