It is said that the opposite of noise is silence. This isn't true. Silence is only the absence of noise. It's not very good manners to sacrifice a friend. Killing unconscious people isn't right.
Magic never dies.
It merely fades away. Eight is a number of some considerable occult significance and must never, ever, be spoken by a wizard. None who enter ever leave again. The life of gnomes and goblins is nasty, brutish and short. Astropsychology has been, as yet, unable to establish what they think about.