Soulscapers Quotes

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Storm Constantine
“Listen, then, for I am a soulscapter and have the gift of the story tongue.”
Storm Constantine, Burying the Shadow

Storm Constantine
“Taparak is a city of silicon and stone, shaped as if by an artist’s hands. It was my home too, in the beginning.”
Storm Constantine, Burying the Shadow

Storm Constantine
“Listen, then, for I am a soulscaper and have the gift of the story tongue.”
Storm Constantine, Burying the Shadow

Storm Constantine
“Our soulscape was a place that shimmered with the incohate birds of later carnal blossoming. As such it was instrumental in our development.”
Storm Constantine, Burying the Shadow

Storm Constantine
“Today, I would step off the narrow, twisty path of childhood, with all its secret haunts, and put one foot on the wide road of womanhood.”
Storm Constantine, Burying the Shadow

Storm Constantine
“Slowly the sense of ritual stole around the smoky chamber and entered my mind and body.”
Storm Constantine, Burying the Shadow

Storm Constantine
“The outside world was eclipsed from my mindscape; rarely have I experienced such moments of total reality.”
Storm Constantine, Burying the Shadow

Storm Constantine
“Perceiving interconnectedness between all living things, the ancient Taps believed that every individual was somehow linked through the abstract country of the soulscape.”
Storm Constantine, Burying the Shadow

Storm Constantine
“By understanding the soulscape, it might be possible to understand human motivation.”
Storm Constantine, Burying the Shadow

Storm Constantine
“We must go to Taparak, and find ourselves a child. Someone who is yet untrained and whose mind is more malleable. We have no choice. It is either this, or we go home and wait for the sickness to find us.”
Storm Constantine, Burying the Shadow

Storm Constantine
“All seeds require a protracted growth period.”
Storm Constantine, Burying the Shadow

Storm Constantine
“We could not enter the soulscape, but we could move, disembodied, through the real world. The combined essence of our minds soared up through the tiers of Taparak, the ancient trunks shadowy to our altered awareness.”
Storm Constantine, Burying the Shadow

Storm Constantine
“The boundary was a shivery place where realities crossed and strained to overtake each other.”
Storm Constantine, Burying the Shadow

Storm Constantine
“Ushas was not the most celebrated of soulscapers, but she was one of the most glamorous soulscaper currently available for commision.”
Storm Constantine, Burying the Shadow

Storm Constantine
“As trainees, I and my peers were taught not only how to enter the soulscape and wander it at will, but also to manipulate the information and symbolism we might find there.”
Storm Constantine, Burying the Shadow

Storm Constantine
“The first experience of the inner realm is impossible to describe, but the feelings it involes are those of terror, wonder, and sheer disbelief.”
Storm Constantine, Burying the Shadow

Storm Constantine
“There are landscapes there, but they are like nothing seen on Earth; gone are the restrictions of natural order; these are the kingdoms of imagination, where nothing is impossible or too bizarre.”
Storm Constantine, Burying the Shadow

Storm Constantine
“Fight symbol with symbol.”
Storm Constantine, Burying the Shadow

Storm Constantine
“Today, we were women travelling together, soulscapers on the road, and we could conserve our power by cheating fate to others’ advantage. It is a strange code we live by.”
Storm Constantine, Burying the Shadow

Storm Constantine
“Surely a freed soul could only be joyful and wild; this was a being filled with anxiety and dread.”
Storm Constantine, Burying the Shadow

Storm Constantine
“There was something too realistic in this performance, a promise of horror. I didn’t want to watch it any more; I was sure it was going to distress me. It was like some soulscape terror being brought into reality, with no escape of return to normal awareness”
Storm Constantine, Burying the Shadow

Storm Constantine
“All deities are present in the soulscape; they are as mutable as the ocean, flowing and ebbing, coming into prominence, declining into obscurity, but always present.”
Storm Constantine, Burying the Shadow