Adriano Pacheco

“The Emperor is dead!
So too his right hand - now cold, now severed!
But mark these dying shadows,
twinned and flowing bloody and beaten,
down and away from mortal sight...
From sceptre's rule dismissed,
from gild candelabra the light now fled,
from a hearth ringed in hard jewels
seven years this warmth has bled...

The Emperor is dead.
So too his master'd companion, the rope cut clean.
But mark this burgeoning return -
faltering dark, the tattered shroud -
embracing children in Empire's dying light.
Hear now the dirge faint reprised,
before the sun's fall, this day spills red
on buckled earth, and in obsidian eyes
vengeance chimes seven times..."
―Call to Shadow, Felisin (I.i. 1-18)”
― Steven Erikson, Gardens of the Moon

“Names are not for the asking, mortal. Names are earned.”
― Steven Erikson

“I sidestepped the vampire's rush, and drove my half of the former blasting rod down at its back, Buffy-like.

Maybe it works better on television.”
― Jim Butcher, Blood Rites

“If even one of you takes so much as a single shot at that crow", he told them, his tone matter-of-fact, "then after you are dead, I will summon your spirits to provide me with the names of your siblings, your parents, and your children. And I will animate your corpses to murder them with your own hands".”
― Ari Marmell, Darksiders: The Abomination Vault