"Dreamers and dreaming dead, lots of them from neither here nor there with no chance of getting home again, lost in place and time.

Humans create their futures every day of every year; only you can alter your worlds.

Be polite to all, friendly to none. Be professional. Be ready to kill everyone and everything.

Gods colliding, ethos and mythos trying to combine. The Sacred Band caught up in a whirlwind not of any god's devising: he and Niko had wanted to save twenty-three pairs of fated Theban fighters. Now everything feels fated and fighting oversweeps its boundaries of time and place and plane.

Something awful is always going to happen, Arton. It's Sanctuary. You're a Stepson. Awful is a big part of your job.

The Riddler says you make the world better one battle at a time.

There are stranger things here than Thebans know about.