An awful question, but one he actually has a tentative answer for. Also, he hates it.

"When I spoke to Nate earlier, when he talked about the world he was in before this, he said it was run by creatures who called themselves gods. They held everyone in a system of caves and used their emotions for sustenance. Maybe it's... something like that."

Please, don't let it be that, because he's not sure if he can take this torture for an eternal afterlife.