Neverwinter Forest What the feck

Being a large, muscular wolf and doing a very quick, very sudden turn, he did not make a quick and graceful escape. But he was desperate and fled as quickly as he could, bolstered by the rage he heard behind him.

Ganon believed that he was more deserving of the stone than the strange wraith. More capable of using its powers. Even if he did know the emotional and even spiritual connection that Astara had to it, he would have made that same conclusion. As a warlock, as the son of Potema, grandson of Meldresi (he was unaware of the fact that the angry spirit behind him had a similar kinship), he needed such a vessel.

Didn't he?

Despite the ritual he just performed, the dark tendrils reached back out into his mind, seeping black whispers into his mind. thief thief traitor coward coward COWARD. 

He kept running, but he was unsure if he was running from the spirit behind him or the ones in his head.