(...)

It isn't. (He can agree with that easily.) The history is a long one but it's not as complicated as one might think. The answer is just... they're two different worlds.

(But he continues,)

A few years ago, a messenger from Fodlan arrived and asked my mother to return. My uncle had passed away suddenly and my grandfather was without an heir. She had no intention of going back home but me? I saw an opportunity to get away from my situation.

So I changed my name, changed into a new set of clothes, and left everything behind me. (He ran away from his problems.) And what did I find?

I was a brute, a rough and unreliable, uneducated, a dangerous beast... of course, no one said it to my face. No one knew who I really was. They thought I was one of them so they told me how they truly felt about outsiders like me.

(And so he kept the truth to himself. Buried it away and became a different person. The beginning of a long series of lies.)

And that's when I came up with my dream. I realized I wouldn't be accepted anywhere in the world.... so I decided to make my own.

(Instead of giving into his despair and tragedy, he decided to rise above it, even if it meant pretending and committing to a life of lies to make it happen.)