If you pass a challenging arcana roll you learn the Zaithisk extracts your memories while destroying you. Preserving whatever useful knowledge you might have in the astral plane. You can actually tell Lae’zel this when she accuses rhe doctor to little avail.
As for why you want to study the tadpoles and ceremorphosis , seems like a good thing to do of your mortal enemy
Nice, it seemed like it was all a front so seemed over the top for that. I failed that roll I guess?