You are nothing if not exhaustive in your self-congratulatory made-up logic.

We follow the codes not because they bring gain, but because we loathe the people we would otherwise become.

Once one becomes a man, he can and must make his own decisions. But I do offer warning. Even a good thing can become destructive if taken to excess.

Sometimes, son," my father said, prying my fingers free, "you have to help the heroes along.

Here, in Alethkar, men often spoke of the legends -- of mankind's hard-won victory over the Voidbringers. But when weapons created to fight nightmares were turned against common soldiers, the lives of men became cheap things indeed.

How do you 'accidentally' kill a noble man in his own mansion?" "With a knife in the chest. Or, rather, a pair of knives in the chest.

Wherever it may be, whoever may hold it. That's who I am.