“War doesn't determine who's right. War determines who remains.”
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“Power dictates acceptability, Kitay mused. If the capital had been built in Tikany, I'm sure we'd be running around dark as wood bark.”
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“This was what the balance of power looked like now. People like her waved a hand and millions were crushed within the confines of some elemental disaster, flung off the chessboard of the world like irrelevant pieces. People like her- shamans, all of them- were like children stomping around over entire cities as if they were mud castles, glass houses, fungible entities that could be targeted and demolished.”
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“Rin was so tired of having to prove her humanity.”
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“The Warlords like to claim that the Keju makes Nikan a meritocracy, but the system is designed to keep the poor and illiterate in their place. You're offending them with your very presence.”
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