I deleted my beloved cast.

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Hell to the yes he is. There's a short cutscene there, where he's all like "I'm still a Guardian and, I bought my full inventory etc etc"

You can buy some pretty decent weapons from him.

I beat Fakis pretty easily, my Teroline made sure I never took too much damage.

I bought a Dark Heart for awesome effects as well. No idea what it did like, but eh.