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“Understand?" Orikan snapped. "To understand is not in you, Trazyn. You're abird making a nest with shiny things. A child with a rock collection. You want things simply to have them. Their true meaning, their use, is lost on you.”
― Robert Rath, The Infinite and The Divine

“Trazyn had travelled the galaxy for so long he’d forgotten what year he’d started. Collecting. Studying. Ordering the cultures of the cosmos.
And one thing he’d learned was that every society thought their mountain was special. That it was more sacred than the mountain worshipped by their neighbouring tribe. That it was the one true axis of the universe.
Even when informed that their sacred ridge was merely the random connection of tectonic plates, or their blessed sword a very old but relatively common alien relic – a revelation they universally did not appreciate, he found – they clung to their stories.”
― Robert Rath, The Infinite and The Divine

“The sound of mechanized brutality that could only come from one species.”
― Robert Rath, L'Infini et le Divin (Warhammer 40,000)

“Ageing systems? Solemnace is..." He caught Trazyn's look and trailed off, casting his monocular downward as he searched for a euphemism that would not besmirch the overlord's beloved gallery. "Historic?”
― Robert Rath, The Infinite and The Divine