Quote-based worldbuilding. Original? Perhaps!

[ArchLich]

"So tell me Inquisitor what is it about me that terrifies you so? What is it that keeps you awake night after night, while I languish here in your blackest of cells? The fact that your people hunted mine to extinction decades ago yet I live, or the notion that if I live then more of my kind may be anywhere?"

Mallykan the Shade-Reaver to inquisitor Balck

" You ask my name? I have worn many over the years, for I have been many things.
I am the rage that arises in the heart of the innocent.
I am he whose shade arouses fear in the hearts of tyrants.
Kingslayer, Throne-Taker, Crown-Breaker!
I am he who can sunder an army with but a touch of his blade.
I am Fire and Fury and Rage!
I am heavenly punishment and infernal damnation for those who tread upon the lost.
The Red Eagle they called me and the White Knight.
And there are places where I am known as the Black Wanderer.
The mighty curse me and the might-less worship my names.

I see that you understand now. So, go ahead then and pray. But your gods will not listen. Not with me around."

[Aolbain]

" You ask my name? I have worn many over the years, for I have been many things.
I am the rage that arises in the heart of the innocent.
I am he whose shade arouses fear in the hearts of tyrants.
Kingslayer, Throne-Taker, Crown-Breaker!
I am he who can sunder an army with but a touch of his blade.
I am Fire and Fury and Rage!
I am heavenly punishment and infernal damnation for those who tread upon the lost.
The Red Eagle they called me and the White Knight.
And there are places where I am known as the Black Wanderer.
The mighty curse me and the might-less worship my names.

I see that you understand now. So, go ahead then and pray. But your gods will not listen. Not with me around."
- An unknown vagrant speaking in front of a spontaneous mass-gathering in the capital of the Northmoor Empire, seven months before the empires fall.

"Faith is a comforting thing to have, my friend, but it does little to win wars. For that you need mines, factories and a healthy amount of dead peasants."

[rlc]

"Faith is a comforting thing to have, my friend, but it does little to win wars. For that you need mines, factories and a healthy amount of dead peasants."

A pragmatic Lieutenant of the Tigrodian Republic to a young, wide-eyed idealist of a clergyman after the clergyman saw his first dead body, circa 1975.

"There is nothing in this world more satisfying than seeing the fear in your opponent's eyes when you smirk at him whilst twisting your blade after stabbing it into him."

[Ilinoris]

"There is nothing in this world more satisfying than seeing the fear in your opponent's eyes when you smirk at him whilst twisting your blade after stabbing it into him."
- Said by Sergio, head of the Serpents, on the first day of training the new recruits.

"I hear only Him.
I see only His.
For nothing more is required for this."

[Sam113097]

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"Why are you praying for divine intervention, worm, when I am already here?"

-Amund Syn, First of the Knowing

"Run, boy, and be sure to it that every bard worth his salt knows my tale."

[rlc]

"Run, boy, and be sure to it that every bard worth his salt knows my tale."
-Ænder I, warrior king of Oxwich to his son and heir, Pedr, right before being covered by an avalanche

"Unfortunately, sayings like, 'life is what you make it' and 'this too shall pass' can sometimes feel too optimistic for your current situation. Sometimes, they are outright lies."

[Aolbain]

"Unfortunately, sayings like, 'life is what you make it' and 'this too shall pass' can sometimes feel too optimistic for your current situation. Sometimes, they are outright lies."
-a sample from 'The Lies I Told For Profit, Bed Company And The Approval Of My Father - The True Tale Of Bildor', by Harold "Bildor" Sudwick. Published posthumously.

"...and most importantly, one must remember that the riots were symptoms of a bigger tumor. Famine alone can't drive a population into such a madness. Nor can a few treasonous agitators, never mind what self proclaimed experts with their pockets full with the Directorates money write to calm us. Indeed, the blame lay firmly on our shoulders. Every youth mistreated by bigoted teachers driven into the welcoming arms of a Cult of Darkness, every laborer who after working 16h every day of the week without making a profit murders his boss and seizes the factory, every Inquisitor lynched after prodding this or that minority group once to many. These are the people who at the 17th last month rose up in anger and desperation, killing 11740 people and destroying property for over 7000 000 000 gullden. And Light help our undeserving souls if we give them reason to do it again."

[Thunderfist12]

"...and most importantly, one must remember that the riots were symptoms of a bigger tumor. Famine alone can't drive a population into such a madness. Nor can a few treasonous agitators, never mind what self proclaimed experts with their pockets full with the Directorates money write to calm us. Indeed, the blame lay firmly on our shoulders. Every youth mistreated by bigoted teachers driven into the welcoming arms of a Cult of Darkness, every laborer who after working 16h every day of the week without making a profit murders his boss and seizes the factory, every Inquisitor lynched after prodding this or that minority group once to many. These are the people who at the 17th last month rose up in anger and desperation, killing 11740 people and destroying property for over 7000 000 000 gullden. And Light help our undeserving souls if we give them reason to do it again."

- Taridor Truth-Speaker to the Council of Smokedrift, speaking in counter to the High Priest Auraiden's claims of the source of the rioting.

"The day was dark and sunless,
The air was thick with fear;
But from the Shadow
There rose a light,
Its candles tallow,
Its pain as sharp as spears,
Its cause unbidden, godless.

"And from that light it slithered
To conquer night and day,
To curse the bless-ed,
To shame the proud,
To add to the Dead
All those it had to slay
To cause this world to wither.

"Light issued life,
A time of strife,
Darkness brought death,
Its cold release.
Shadow revealed
An afterlife,
Whilst Void did naught
But make each cease."

[D20ragon]

"The day was dark and sunless,
The air was thick with fear;
But from the Shadow
There rose a light,
Its candles tallow,
Its pain as sharp as spears,
Its cause unbidden, godless.

"And from that light it slithered
To conquer night and day,
To curse the bless-ed,
To shame the proud,
To add to the Dead
All those it had to slay
To cause this world to wither.

"Light issued life,
A time of strife,
Darkness brought death,
Its cold release.
Shadow revealed
An afterlife,
Whilst Void did naught
But make each cease"

The words spoken to Adwin the questioner, by the constellation the Sphinx.
This marked the last time the stars spoke to mortals.


"Mother, where did the faeries go?"
"To the Wood, my child, the Wood."
"Mother, I wish to go someday"
"As you should, my dear, you should."
"Mother, can I go tonight?"
"No, my child, no."
"Why not? The Dark gives me no fright"
"Even so, dear, even so."
"I do not fear the nobles wrath!"
"You are bold, child, bold.
But the Wood has long been razed to ash,
Dead and cold, dear, dead and cold."

[Landis963]

"Mother, where did the faeries go?"
"To the Wood, my child, the Wood."
"Mother, I wish to go someday"
"As you should, my dear, you should."
"Mother, can I go tonight?"
"No, my child, no."
"Why not? The Dark gives me no fright"
"Even so, dear, even so."
"I do not fear the nobles wrath!"
"You are bold, child, bold.
But the Wood has long been razed to ash,
Dead and cold, dear, dead and cold."

Traditional Geistburg nursery rhyme

"Warrior gives one strength. Guardian gives one safety. Child gives one happiness. These are the beginning.
Sphinx gives one knowledge. Wyrm gives one power. Faerie gives one beauty. These are the middle.
Sun gives one family. Moon gives one solitude. Rift gives one insanity. These are the end."

[Pokonic]

"Warrior gives one strength. Guardian gives one safety. Child gives one happiness. These are the beginning.
Sphinx gives one knowledge. Wyrm gives one power. Faerie gives one beauty. These are the middle.
Sun gives one family. Moon gives one solitude. Rift gives one insanity. These are the end."

-A once-common prayer often said by peasants, now banned by the Church of The Light for emphasizing heretical powers. It is still popular among various folk sects and is often associated with the Cult of Darkness.


"No one trusts G'urthaka. G'urthaka sad."