Ivan Kal > Quotes

“Every element has sub-elements, but it also has aspects. For water, they are Flow and Change; for fire, Transformation and Destruction. Earth’s aspects are Foundation and Strength, while air’s are Freedom and Spirit. Metal is formed of Gravitation and Power, and nature—your alignment, Morgan—is made of Life and Death. The Domination elements are more aggressive, requiring emotion and drive in order to be utilized. The Discipline elements, however, require calm and willpower.”
― Ivan Kal, Guild Master

“I know what a Guild is supposed to be. A place for friends, for people who help one another, not a place where those at the bottom are used by those at the top,”
― Ivan Kal, Guild Master

“The one you give your word to needs to be worthy of trust and respect.”
― Ivan Kal, Warpath

“Lies which let them keep fooling themselves into being something that they are not, that prevent them from ever growing beyond what they had crafted themselves to be at that moment. But to look upon oneself and see all the bad alongside the good—to see everything and accept it? There is power in knowing who you are, in accepting the truth.”
― Ivan Kal, Monsters and Legends

“if you stay in the Twilight Melody Sect, you will not fail because someone else exploited you, but because you yourselves were unworthy of climbing higher. That is all that I can offer you: the freedom to make your own choices without fear of someone else claiming what you’ve gained. That is all that you can expect of me.”
― Ivan Kal, The Price of Power

“Looks like I have a real-life girlfriend now. It only took me dying to get one. Woo-hoo!”
― Ivan Kal, Guild Master

“The truth always has three sides, the truth of the one side, the truth of the other, and the real truth.”
― Ivan Kal, The Price of Power

“eon in the dream, and countless more outside of it. More than you can imagine, or perhaps not… What is time, anyways? It matters not when every moment is the same.”
― Ivan Kal, The Price of Power

“Torunament.”
― Ivan Kal, The Empire

“Power comes to those that seek it. Hide from your desire for it, and you will only succeed in remaining weak. Mediocre.”
― Ivan Kal, Eternal Soul

“He realized that things were not beautiful because they lasted; the end was what gave them that beauty.”
― Ivan Kal, The Centennial Tournament

“We struggle, we hurt, so that the moments of happiness feel more precious,”
― Ivan Kal, The Centennial Tournament

“The mind was a curious thing: its capacity to fill in the blanks, to construct narratives, was unmatched. But that was also the danger, because a broken mind might make mistakes, might tie together events that were unrelated, make assumptions that were false. And when one was in pain, grieving? It made things even worse.”
― Ivan Kal, The Price of Power

“Life was cruel. It cared nothing for your plans, cared nothing for your hopes and dreams. There were people who were lucky beyond measure, people for whom all fell just right, who even when they failed came back up on top. It was the reality of life. For some, the cards they were dealt are just always better—so much so, that it might seem like the reality itself was bending over backward just to give them more. But that was the reality: some went through life without any struggle, everything around them always turning to gold.”
― Ivan Kal, The Price of Power