Oh, he is! But if you don't die, you can repeat the gate since, you know, some groups might melt the lance they get before realizing that only normal humans can touch them. OOPS! And it's not like Aelia's going to tell them about that beforehand.

I can probably do the third or fourth nightmare since those don't need to be NPC'd, if you're interested?

\o/ I may have Snape join her at Ekpyrosis if I don't overwhelm myself with tags!