The Thresholds Quotes

“,,Getting 80 percent of the taxes meant they could also collect 80 percent of the souls when their time came. So you were barely dead and a collector was already at the gate ready to suck the last breath out of you.
Everybody hated them, absolutely everyone, no matter the clan they belonged to, or their lineage, or their social status. Nobody said their names and those who joined the League were consigned to oblivion.
And yet, there was talk about soldiers who paid to get their freedom and came back from the League. But nobody knew how they had done that and the Journalists who had investigated the topic came back disappointed and quit the profession altogether.
There was also much talk about some form of resistance, which seemingly had achieved more, about some sort of liberation movement, but nothing of what was going on in the lake area could be connected to the rumours.”
― Doina Roman, Pragul