[Man you're a ray of sunshine, aren't you.]

Maybe they were stuck here so long they just died of old age. ...Probably hoping for too much, there.

[The sickness thing is an... interesting theory. He'll file that away in the list of "maybe but god it better not be that" options.]

We were brought here to fight, weren't we? That's what the hag in the temple says. Could be they're just the victims of her last round of abduction.