When the party first arrives in Kalay, Lady Layana offers much insight into Hammet and Ivan's past. Layana: It happened several years before Hammet founded Kalay... He was off travelling. Hammet felt he had reached an impasse as a merchant then. He risked his life on a journey to find a new source of business... He was in mortal danger in the southwestern edge of the world, when some Adepts appeared and saved his life. He had lost consciousness. When he awoke, he found himself in their village.