"There was," Kreyu replies, "before I came here."

"Taweret told me that he had been a soldier, once. Something, something went very wrong in his body, killed him slowly and painfully in ways she could not help, wasting him away." Probably a cancer of some kind, in modern terms.

"Such pain, such suffering, his spirit lingered, after death. Taweret helped me send his spirit on to the next life, helped me cleanse this place."