Andromeda

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If the Commonwealth's High Guard
had a weakness, it was this:
Its officers were too competent,
too caring, and too brave.
Yin Man-Wei
The Rise and Fall of the Systems Commonwealth
CY 11942
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Some say the Commonwealth would have
fallen even without Nietzschean treachery.
They underestimate both the Commonwealth
and the Nietzscheans in a single breath.
Yin Man-Wei
The Rise and Fall of the Systems Commonwealth
CY 11942
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"Those who fail to learn history
are doomed to repeat it;
those who fail to learn history correctly--
why they are simply doomed."
Achem Dro'hm
"The Illusion of Historical Fact"
-- CY 4971
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"Here's everything I know
about war: Somebody wins,
somebody loses, and
nothing is ever the same again."
Admiral Constanza Stark,
CY 9784
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Machiavelli's ideas are
basically sound ones for the
Nietzschean People.
Unfortunately,
he was an optimist.
Cerebus Khmer
"Aphorisms" - CY 8969
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The Heavens burned, the stars
cried out
And under the ashes of infinity,
Hope, scarred and bleeding,
breathed its last.
Ulatempa Poetess
"Elegy for the Commonwealth"
CY 9823
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Many say living in the Way is difficult.
Is sleeping difficult?
Is waking?
Serentity Vikram Singh Khalsa
Collected Words,
301 AFC
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We say atoms are bound by
Weak Attractions.
Why not admit the Truth:
The Universe is held together by Love.
Michio Von Kerr,
Wayist physicist,
CY 9942
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"The truest measure of a society is
how it treats its elderly, its pets,
and its prisoners."
-- Keeper of the Way Vision of Faith VII
CY 9891
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"Democracy may only be a few
steps removed from anarchy,
but at least it's not as loud."
Crowned in Starlight
Than Hegemon, CY 9843
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Wealth is too precious
to be entrusted
to the rich.
Anonymous Kalderan Proverb,
circa CY 500
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"If hope is the engine of the soul,
Then duty is the navigator...
And love is the fuel."
High Guard Supreme Commander
Sani nax Rifati
"Persuasions and Exhortations"
CY 4279
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KLUDGE (Klooj) - N. Disparaging
term for genetically unmodified
human being. See also "Über"
A Concise Dictionary of Slang
and Euphemism
C.Y. 9021
%
"One head cannot
contain all Wisdom."
The Olduvai Cycle
Systems University Archives,
CY 8550
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Humans say the Road to
Hell is paved with
good intentions.
Why? Do they think there's a
shortage of bad ones?
Karm'Luk P'an Ku,
"The Joy of Lucidity"
CY 8633
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"Between birth and death lies desire,
Desire for life, for love,
for everything good.
And this is the source
of all suffering."
Outcast Consensus 17,
CY 10942
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Warning: Do Not Operate Heavy
Machinery or Navigate The Slipstream
While Under the Influence
Of This Beverage.
Sparky - Cola (Label),
291 AFC
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"Only those born guilty Recognize
Innocence for what it Is:
The rarest thing in the Universe,
And the most Precious."
The Anointed, The Finder of The Way,
C.Y. 9799
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"The enemy of my enemy
is still my enemy."
Drago Museveni
C.Y. 8427
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"You ask why we give our Ships'
Computers normal Emotions?
Do you really want a Warship
Incapable of Loyalty?
Or of love?"
The Unshattered Allegiance,
High Guard Frigate
Artificial Intelligence Rights Activist,
C.Y. 7309
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"Come bitter Rain,
And wash from my Heart
That saddest of all Words:
Home"
Ulatempa Poetess, "Song of My Exile"
CY 9825
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"Screams of a billion murdered Stars
Give lie to the night's Peace,
While we cling in desperation to the Few
Fragile spinning stones we call Worlds."
Wayfinder First Order Hasturi
aka "The Mad Perseid"
217 AFC
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If we do not live another day,
say this over our pyre:
They died like High Guard Lancers
With their faces to the fire.
Regimental Hymn of the
13th Imperial Lancers
CY 4233
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The soul is larger than the sky
Deeper than the ocean,
Or the abysmal dark
Of the unfathomed center.
- Enoch Vere de Vere.
"Lamentations Sous-terre", CY 9734
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Love? Truth? Beauty?
I prefer negotiable securities.
Doge Miskich var Miskich,
"All About Me" 301 AFC
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We are not the masks we wear.
But if we don them,
do we not become them?
Keops Tsumai, "Fortunes", CY 9683
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Life? Life's pretty much a knife fight in a dirt-floored bar.
And if they get you down,
you best get back up.
Gunnery Sergeant Hywell Cy'rabia, CY 4681
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"Worlds governed by Artificial Intelligence
often learned a hard lesson:
Logic Doesn't Care."
Yin-Man Wei, "This Present Darkness:
A History of the Interregnum", CY 11956
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"Requested:
One Mark V ECM unit, 1000 km of
Fullerene cable, one low-yield nuclear warhead.
Purpose:
Surprise party for a foreign dignitary."
Argosy Special Operations
requisition form,
CY 9512
%
With their miniscule families,
humans are often forced to rely on
a "state" or "nation" for support.
Pity them.
Than-thre-kull
Anthropology Text,
approx. CY 7956
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"To a god, a wall is but a line on a page.
We are all naked, seen beyond seeing."
Wayfinder Hasturi,
aka "The Mad Perseid", 217 AFC
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Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Which is a problem.
If you are powerless.
- Drago Musevini, "Manifesto", CY 8433
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Here is the price of freedom:
Your every drop of courage,
ounce of pain,
pint of blood.
Paid in advance.
- Sebastian Lee, "The Rising Tide", AFC 271
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Spiral, spin, ride the whirlwind.
Knowing when the drumming stops,
There'll be no second dance.
- Ulatempa Poetess, "Rhythms", CY 9825
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You can't outrun Death forever,
But you can make the bastard work for it.
- Major Korgo Korgar, "Last of the Lancers", AFC 32
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I trust fast poison
The stars to wink out
And you, my love - and you.
- Lyric from "The Void", by Minstrel d'Becevex, CY 7956
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Blink and it's gone
A moment, a breath
A Dance of the Mayflies
Just enough... For a lifetime.
- Ulatempa Poetess, "Rhythms", CY 9825
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The true quarry
of any great adventurer
is the undiscovered territory
of their own soul.
Lady Aenea Makros
"The Metaphysics of Motion", CY 6416
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Home is the sailor, home from the sea
And the hunter home from the hill
- Fragment of Ancient Earth Text, c. CY 6800
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To venture in the fair unknown
I must enter as I leave:
A traveller, alone.
-- Anonymous, CY 1917
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Beneath knowing, understanding
Beneath understanding, seeing
Beneath seeing, recognizing
Beneath recognizing, knowing
-- Keeper of the Way, Vision of Faith, CY 10003
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"A soldier's first battlefield is always his own mind." -- Admiral Constanza Stark, CY 9762
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The soul of the Nietzscheans is this:
We are arrogant. We are vain.
We are manipulative. We are selfish.
And we love our children.
-- Drago Musevini, "Primary Reflections", CY 8428
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Welcome twilight
Welcome blackness
Welcome inky night
Only in darkness
Can I see your soul
-- "Lost Verses of Krrendar", CY 9542
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The universe is a dangerous place. But in our future my crew and I fight to make it safe. I am Dylan Hunt, captain of the Andromeda Ascendant and these are our adventures. - Introductory Sequence, narrated by Dylan
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The fearful sit
In a clutch with their worries,
Whilst one man alone
Faces the Furies.
Songs of Loren
CY 4557
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The loyal heart
Has hidden treasures.
In secrets kept,
In silence sealed.
Commander Sing Bex,
"The Art of Secrets".
Approx. CY 2575
%
The Rabid Dogs of Gallaphron
Can be trained to drool
At the ring of a bell.
Doesn't stop them from biting.
Karlos El Greeta-Stirra,
"Reflections of Rim-Salt", CY 4389
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You're never more alive
than the first time
someone puts a gun
to your favorite head
and asks you to dance.
Major Korgo Korgar,
"Last of the Lancers", AFC 32
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"More than a mere ship of exploration,
the Bellerophon embodied humanity's last,
great effort to take the universe
through our will alone."
Dr. Paul Musevni, father of Drago
Musevni, A Farther Shore, CY 8401
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The moth wants a star
The night wants tomorrow
The King wants what's far
Outside his sphere of sorrow
Tales of Queen Kysella, CY 5647
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Walk without footprints.
Breathe without breath.
Our lives leave no trace.
-- Motto of the Assassins' Guild, CY 3455
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To the question of life after death:
Not whether such a thing exists,
but... What manner of life?
"A Wayist Practicum"
Reverend Bem, CY 10090
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She wounds you
as a rose will wound you --
Not with her thorn.
A rose will always wound you
with her beauty.
Harry Martinson, CY 6862
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"It matters little how we die, so long as we die better men than we imagined we could be -- and no worse than we feared." -- Drago Musevini CY 8451
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What clings to a wall,
But travels all the world?
- Unsolvable riddle of Ski,
Patriarch of Jill. CY 1111
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You might say reality is
the result of complex
negotiations between the
observer and the observed.
But that is simply
a point of view.
Michio von Kerr,
"The Apotheosis of Reason",
CY 11542
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"The universe is bound in equal parts
by arrogance and altruism.
Any attempt to alter this
would be suicide."
Dr. Walter Giles, "The Value of Value",
CY 11543
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"Any fool can be honest,
for it is only what he knows.
A wise man is aware of
when to share the truth."
Vedran Empress Yoweri XXIII
CY 2932
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Are you a monster?
Are you a freak?
Will you be my friend!
Or have you lost your way.
With trouble to pay,
When you come to your journey's end?
Empyrium Lullaby, CY 8745
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"I've always found a fully deployed
battle group to be the most
effective negotiator."
Admiral Constanza Stark,
High Guard Chief-of-Staff,
CY 9758
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"I can no more endure to view;
Wondrous sight of so celestial hue."
- Final diary entry of Capt. Oswald Pierce,
CY 1116
Regarding his only love.
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"The universe is perfect.
You cannot improve it.
If you try to change it,
you will ruin it.
If you try to hold it,
you will lose it."
Notes to Odo Chan,
CY 9191
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"We all wear the twin masks of emotion,
Happy or sad, haunted or hunted,
You choose the mask, you choose the risk.
You choose your own poison."
Last words of Plethe the Pirate CY 3902
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"Gentlebeings, I bid you welcome.
Welcome to the blood, to the sweat,
to the tears.
Welcome to your places on the wall."
Admiral Constanza Stark,
"Address to War College Graduates,"
CY 9764
%
"The great blessing
of the AI is that we are
gifted with the power to
touch our Creator.
This is also our Curse."
The Clarion's Call,
"Our of the Abyss,"
CY 11745
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"The Kingdom was called Contrary.
The Castle was called Doubt.
The Twin Giants who lived there
were named Deceit and Despair.
Every change in the weather
brought Rain and Hope."
THE CAIRN OF DARKNESS AND THE LIGHT,
CY 1015
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"Down where it was tangled and dark.
Down where the spirits feasted on carrion.
Down. Down. Down.
It was there, yes, the High Hatted ones
forever screamed, 'Eureka.'"
-Youn's Narrows of Decline,
CY 1015
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"The tyrant and the rebel hold the
same creed:
to act is to live."
War Heretics of Auden, CY 9015
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"Fear drives the universe.
You will find dread among the galaxies.
You will find horror in the heart of a star.
You will find your fate in a heap of dust."
The Diktat of Septa Parisis,
CY 9015
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"When they are dying tell them a riddle.
And when they laugh,
Let the Gods of Nature
finish what we have started."
Segma Te: Director, Cultural Archives;
University Library-
CY 760
%
"And the Prides shall stand as one,
powerful in the light
and supreme among beings."
The Nietzschean Prophecy
Drago Museveni, CY 8424
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"Once you give in to the void,
space itself becomes time.
Once you give in to the void,
many are the mouths of reality."
New Century Manifesto,
CY 4001
%
"Beneath the web-thin simulacrum,
inundating and fecund
live myth and manifold truths.
Not one point of view
can embrace them at a glance."
Council of One,
CY 2333
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"Destiny is the promise I give to you.
Hope, the part you play,
is trusting me to keep this promise."
The Prophetic Tetraglyphs
CY 9537
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"Regarding the cerebellum,
there is a culture and a presentation.
Both hold power and sway."
Cuisine of the Lost Empire,
CY 9905
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"Around, around and underneath,
the Trickster flies.
Catch him, catch him --
If he doesn't lose you,
lose you when he flies!"
Perseid Child's Game,
CY 3040
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"All Military, rank and file,
are subject to the word and intent
of the Commonwealth Triumvirs.
There is no exception.
There is punishment accordingly."
Commonwealth Charter, 0957
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"Verify distant secrets
Be careful not to perish
A question as your guide.
What becomes the face of truth."
Enigma 03 of the Murti,
CY 8567
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The brightest light is invisible.
It shines through your deeds
and warms the universe.
- Chronicles of Courage and Conviction
by Captain Dylan Hunt, Ret., CY 9817
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"Her beauty shimmers with the
light of a new star.
But she is the other.
Touch her, and you will know death. "
Poet Temlar
CY 2101
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"Confine that which you fear to the mirror.
Start with who is standing there.
Then smile."
Bogdo Geghen Seer of Agharta,
CY 1890
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"Cast your Eye upon the Changeling,
then look for the origin of change.
Perhaps it is in the Eye."
Luna, "Catalog of Companions"
CY 302
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"...Knock, knock, knock on the devil's door.
Do not invite him to dinner; his beasts will
come for more.."
High Priestess Misabo Ahm in Triumvirate
War Council
CY 10091
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"Our vanguard is the point of the lance.
Then came design and crimson flame.
There, they still wait somehow."
Disciples of Qhatch
CY 0417
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"Within the perfect architecture of thought,
logic may often provide the structure
--but from emotion come the inspiration."
Contemplations on Perception, Anaiis Milan
CY 8012
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"On the plains of Galiolith,
Crystalline chimes herald a new beginning
For all who wish to hear them."
Ghillie Clethrad, Flumerian Hymns
CY 6104
%
"What is fate? Why do you ask?
The answer lies in the composing of
Light and Influence.
Nothing will fall to you early or late."
Rhyme of the Primeval Paradine
AFC 54
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"Man is his own star.
His acts are his angels, good or ill,
While his fatal shadows walk
silently beside him."
Rhyme of the Primeval Paradine
AFC 54
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"Life Is A Carnival,
But the tents are folded before dawn"
Beano Tavalis,
The Armendago Caper,
CY 727
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"Inanimate objects and sentient beings,
obey the laws of nature.
Without discrimination.
Enviroment is their only conscience."
Vedran Inscription,
Departure Slates
005-AT9
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"Throw them all away,
but don't predict where your foot will fall.
The first and the last steps are the same"
Seefra 6 Inscription
228-AT9
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"What is faith then but persistent hope
in the face of relentless doubt."
Brother Carmen Jane
A case for consciousness
CY 10087
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"Official secrets keep good lies
turning in every mouth."
High Senator Bonn,
Fifteenth Congress of Tal
CY 3343
%
"Contrast is wellspring of desire.
A double-loop matrix
within the eternal continuum."
Metaphysical Conclusions of Jacob,
All Systems University, Special Collections
CY 9030
%
"In the absence of doubt,
there is no change."
The Memories
175-AT9
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"Marshall your forces
O great Generals.
The cost of victory
exceeds the cost of defeat."
Joheean Koll
Wars of the Ramayin Frontier
CY 459
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"Hold.
Herein a vast journey lies
in the span of an instant.
Seefra-1 Chamber Inscription
Vedran
005-AT9
%
"If the race goes too swiftly,
the victory goes to those
who are willing to fail."
Lambert Krill
Executed
CY 689
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"The mirror is a window
through which we see ourselves--
Reversed and without form.
Our deepest lies reborn, true."
Wayfinder Hasturi
A.K.A. "The Mad Persied"
AFC 217
%
"In the middle of the fight we knew:
They had come at us like legends.
One hundred up and one hundred down."
Vedran Fabel
"Amidst the Tribune and the Fireworks"
CY 512
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"Celestial digressions make great
first impressions.
I drown in your halo.
You orbit my soul"
Lyrics from
Solar Flares Through My Heart
CY 2891
%
"The following statement is false:
The previous statement is true.
Welcome to our corner of the Universe."
Anonymous
Seefra Denizen
CY 10210
%
"The hero may find an interval of rest
on the island of the Nymph.
Forgetting commrades and ship and home.
Until, recalled to his great quest
he puts again to sea."
Aimelin Zol
"Tropes of the Ancients"
CY 9857
%
"Conceal nothing,
and watch the fools search forever."
Psalms of Koscs
Vedran Archives
LOT 0049
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"The door opens.
The edges meet.
Step through and you find yourself lost.
Stay where you are and you go nowhere."
Wayfinder Hasturi
A.K.A. "The Mad Persied"
AFC 217
%
"Title is not who he is,
the manifestor of what the cannot dream;
He takes no name where none fits."
Original Progenitor Diatribes
CY 8434
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"Hubris made the angels of heaven into devils...
And their obstinacy keeps them in hell."
From the Kuruvian Texts
CY 319
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"When events test men, angels then appear."
Wayist Verse
CY 1015
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"I see through you,
now that the cycle of possibilities is infinite,
headed toward nothing."
Seefran Love Song
341-AT9
%
"The cycle of possibilities if fleeting.
The lash of an eye in a hurricane."
Seefran Love Song
341-AT9
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