Some gifts of friendship cannot be earned. They exist, beyond price, and we cannot hope to match up to them.
No driven man hears unwanted counsel.
I would sooner converse with a snake! He side-stepped the clutter.Speak and have done. Even snakes prefer their choice of company.
Did I mention any name? But dissembling was wasted; Eldir only glowered until Sethvir gave way with a shrug. That's the part of his personality that makes us all feel like we've been kissing coiled vi...
What is our experience, but the reflected truth of our misapprehensions and short-falls? And also the grace of our beauty and strength, and the wise choices that make up our character?
The curse that afflicted this scion of s'Ilessid had become everything the Fellowship of the Seven had warned and worse.
The Wars of Light and Shadow were fought during the third age of Athera, the most troubled and strife-filled era recorded in all of history. At that time Arithon, called Master of Shadow, battled the...
Since you refused the good grace to die on delivery, Rathain has got a living prince.
Prudence, my prophet,’ the sorcerer rebuked. ‘The results of prophecies often resolve through strangely twisted circumstance.’ But if Asandir was yet aware that the promised talents were split between...
Fanatics don’t choose to stop blinding themselves. His Lordship’s more at risk of becoming the figure-head steered by the needs of the mob.What man who leads a pack of followers isn't?
Against such odds, I will stand or fall! Whether or not I can rise to surmount the trials before me, I plan to step forward and fight.
Yet contrary evidence supports a claim that the Master was unjustly aligned with evil. Fragments of manuscript survive which expose the entire religion of Light as fraud, and award Arithon the attribu...
My grandfather was sparing in his praise of apprentices. My grandfather insisted we think for ourselves and achieve for our own satisfaction. Deep study of the mysteries were their own tough path, he...
I shall try. At best, I am human. No less subject than any to mortal limits and fallible resource.
Damn you, said Arithon. In a shattering change of mood, he was laughing. You have it. But what's my word against the grandiloquent predictions of a maudlin and drunken prophet?Maybe everything, Feliri...
Arithon lent a disarming appearance of frailty. Beneath wind-flicked tangles of dark hair, his expression reflected the careless ennui of high-breeding, the features, sharp-faceted marble.
A soldier’s life is all grinding routine. Who sold you the rosy notion of honour, trumped up in bright flags and glory? We’re here to burn barley. Tossing a torch takes a damned sight less practice th...
You are not mine to command. But the choice to kill always means closing the mind to the chance of a living alternative.
Sometimes there are no victims to save, and nothing is broken that should be fixed.
Because the factual account lay hopelessly entangled between legend and theology, sages in the seventh age meditated upon the ancient past, and recalled through visions the events as they happened. Co...