I enjoyed the army reserve, and I learned a lot from it, but I also... it helped me work out that I didn't want to live in that kind of closed environment.

Clearly the Old One had the capacity to kill - or easily deliver some sort of final ending that sounded remarkably like death.

While princes do rule the empire, they have to work within certain boundaries, and they're also always in a contest with each other to become the next emperor. And this contest includes actually killing each other, doing anything they can get away with to each other.

I have never known what to tell anybody. Except that it is better to do something than nothing, even if the cost is great.

Knowledge, like all things, is best in moderation," intoned the Will. "Knowing everything means you don't need to think, and that is very dangerous.

No mother, no father, no Sight.

Let this be my final lesson. Everyone and everything has a time to die.