Everybody calm down or get angry, depending, because it's SNEAKY GATE TIME. (FUTURE)
Second panel Nimmel, just listen to yourself.

Bonus fun time happy note - look at the casual racism of the Eld. "Oh, yeah, our society collapsed because all our wizards just completely lost it. You probably don't even have one guy who could lose his mind like that."
Joke's on you! Humanity has exactly one person who could lose his mind and destroy us all! Fortunately the king has him imprisoned inside a magically inert structure, or maybe on another plane or something. Good job, King Dave! You're saving all of us.