I think with world building, it's important to create a sense of culture even if it is just a fantasy, and the best way to do that is to look at a real human culture and see what makes it cohesive.

These soldiers had done what they had done, and been done unto in return. This was how it went. In the cycle of slaughter, reprisal begat reprisal, forever.

Life doesn’t need magic to be magical. (But a little bit sure doesn’t hurt.)

A bruxis. That was the one wish more powerful than a gavriel, and its trade value was singular: The only way to purchase one was with one’s own teeth. All of them, self-extracted.

Peace is more than the absence of war. Peace is accord. Harmony.

Boredom is a terrible affliction of the soulless.

It was as if she had emitted a pulse of radiation that reached him even where he stood, and it bathed him and it burned him.