Then his gaze is landing on a wrinkled old man staring back at him in the mirror. That familiar stranger. That elderly alien who overtook his body but not his soul.
“The Mighty Nein are trying to locate you—” “The what?” he interrupted. “The Mighty Nein, that’s what they call themselves.” “Are there nine of them?” “N-No…” Lucien nodded stiffly. “Ridiculous name.”
― Critical Role: The Mighty Nein—The Nine Eyes of Lucien
― Critical Role: The Mighty Nein—The Nine Eyes of Lucien
“Tempus before battle, Umberlee during a storm, and Auril when the cold weather proves a threat—”
― Tangled Webs
― Tangled Webs
“Silence. “I think this should be … it.” “Just like that, huh?” “It isn’t ‘just like that’ and you know it. It’s been coming on for a long time.”
― Tales of the City
― Tales of the City
“But I know better: magic is not in the brain, miss; it is in the bones.”
― The Monster of Elendhaven
― The Monster of Elendhaven
“Inside the temple, Richard found a life waiting for him, all ready to be worn and lived, and inside that life, another. Each life he tried on, he slipped into, and it pulled him further in, further away from the world he came from; one by one, existence following existence, rivers of dreams and fields of stars, a hawk with a sparrow clutched in its talons flies low above the grass, and here are tiny intricate people waiting for him to fill their heads with life, and thousands of years pass and he is engaged in strange work of great importance and sharp beauty, and he is loved, and he is honoured, and then a pull, a sharp tug and it’s…”
― Elric of Melniboné
― Elric of Melniboné
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