Mitchell Lüthi > Quotes

“Orpheus had found his wife waiting for him and bargained with Hades and Persephone for her release. But Dietmar had no sweet songs to soften the Devil's heart, only his love. Perhaps he would be forced to remain so that they might go free? He would take that bargain and be glad for it.”
― Mitchell Lüthi, Pilgrim: A Medieval Horror

“enslave a man was to control his body, but to deceive a man, to convince him to act upon a falsehood, was to enslave his spirit and mind.”
― Mitchell Lüthi, Pilgrim: A Medieval Horror

“To go against Jerusalem was to go against God.”
― Mitchell Lüthi, Pilgrim: A Medieval Horror

“The Assise sur la ligece was among the most sacred laws of the kingdom—a guarantee of the property rights of the baronage and their vassals. If anyone took another’s property without just cause, the entire noble class would align against them, regardless of allegiances or family ties.”
― Mitchell Lüthi, Pilgrim: A Medieval Horror

“But a mind is a fragile thing. Push it too hard, too quickly, and it will snap.”
― Mitchell Lüthi, Pilgrim: A Medieval Horror

“The Devil never runs upon a man to seize him with his claws until he sees him on the ground, already having fallen by his own will. Saint Thomas More”
― Mitchell Lüthi, His Black Tongue

“Ifrit is not its name but rather what it is. It is one among the jinn,”
― Mitchell Lüthi, Pilgrim: A Medieval Horror

“There is a demon in me.”
― Mitchell Lüthi, Pilgrim: A Medieval Horror

“It has been too long since last I walked the mortal realm as myself. For that, you have my thanks. - Demon”
― Mitchell Lüthi, His Black Tongue

“As-Suhrawardi writes that the great religions are all revelations of the same truth. Allah, in His wisdom, saw that there are too many people speaking too many tongues for one truth to be revealed in one place at one time. And so there have been many revelations. You believe in the same God as I do, revealed through your own prophet.” “The Christ is not a prophet,”
― Mitchell Lüthi, Pilgrim: A Medieval Horror

“He added another thing to the list of things men killed and died for: gold, God, and brotherhood.”
― Mitchell Lüthi, Pilgrim: A Medieval Horror

“To be spared the rot of plague, only to find your mind ensnared by another sickness. It is a great tragedy.”
― Mitchell Lüthi, His Black Tongue

“What Razin had described was not unfamiliar to him. Old Tirus, Leviathan, Falak, the Norse Jormungandr—these were the serpents that would end the world. He’d sometimes wondered how so many tales could share so many characteristics if there were not some truth to them.”
― Mitchell Lüthi, Pilgrim: A Medieval Horror