No self-respecting bird in good health would allow its feathers to look ruffled. No confident cougar would let its fur long remain matted and dirty.
If I was a nobody you wouldn’t be so eager to see me dead. Just like these people you know that I am devoted to the truth. That is why you want to eliminate me.” – Magda Searus.
Little things are a good place to start. Larger understanding is built on little things. We put those little things we learn together into larger concepts.
When you hear the word ‘tyranny of magic’ as we heard from Elder Caldell, you will know that it is the calling card of killers. Don’t be fooled by their platitudes that is for the common good. Their real power is to strip us of our abilities so that they may easily conquer and rule us.
Free people were not ruled. Freedom had first to be valued before its existence could be demanded.
If we are to survive, we need magic now more than ever to defend ourselves from those in the Old World. We need to learn, discover, create. We need to use our reasoning minds and truth.
We have a responsibility to life. The living should be our only concern. Since it is the Sword of Truth – a weapon created to fight for the truth – people won’t have reason to expect that it could also actually be the key to the power of Orden. Quinn, you know how dangerous the power of Orden is. Used in the wrong way. it very well could breach the veil and destroy the world of life. We have to do everything in our power to see to it that such a thing never comes to pass.
Create a better idea of what the key should be. One that makes more sense to people, so that they believe in the diversion we create.
Don’t make promises, because circumstances have a way of making you regret them.
Of course, disinformation,” Quinn said. “I can do that. I’ll leave out critical events, then I’ll put in false information and twist everything that has happened around into a vague, shadowy history that obscures what really took place.
The power of Orden predates the star shift.
Something in this world always wants to kill you. Don’t forget that.
You are not struggling to rule, but to give others a chance at ruling their own lives. So stop ruling and let them live those lives.
No one is as fanatical as a convert.
Ah, but Sorceress, on such a journey as ours, is one ever truly done with saving the world?
The woman had a voice that could unwind a good rope.
Faith itself, you see, is the key-the magic wand that they wave over the bubbling brew they have concocted to render it ‘self-evident’.
We all have to die, Johnrock – every one of us. It is how we choose to live that matters. After all, it’s the only life each one of us will ever have, so how we live is of paramount importance.
Darken Rahl shook his fists to the sky. “No!
I hate magic,” Berdine muttered. “It makes no sense.