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"The Eggshell Carver: A Tale of the Inland Sea by Tais Teng was next.
This self-contained story concerns a lowly eggshell carver who becomes obsessed with a rukh eggshell, a khan who is seeking immortality, and a spirit seeking rebirth.
Shamir is no fool. Although, caught under the scrutiny of those more powerful than himself, his options are limited." — Jan 04, 2026 09:11AM
"The Eggshell Carver: A Tale of the Inland Sea by Tais Teng was next.
This self-contained story concerns a lowly eggshell carver who becomes obsessed with a rukh eggshell, a khan who is seeking immortality, and a spirit seeking rebirth.
Shamir is no fool. Although, caught under the scrutiny of those more powerful than himself, his options are limited." — Jan 04, 2026 09:11AM
But then, kings, priests, and whores all wanted to do everything their own way. Kings, because no one else was really important to them; priests, because they wanted you to think they were important; and whores, because time was money.
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“The thing is to be always ready to change, to adapt, to fit one's self to the facts of life. a fool fights reality and seeks the impossible; a wise man is always alert to move towards the possible.”
― The Lion of Islam
― The Lion of Islam
“By the bounteous bottom of sweet Vashtilulu the Buxom! I'm looking forward to this, Our Kandar!”
― Kandar
― Kandar
“The only difference between genius and insanity is that genius has its limits.”
― NPC
― NPC
“I take back all the times I took back all the bad things I said about Kluge,” I said. “He really is a moron.” “Actually, you’ve never taken back anything you said about him,” Jessep informed me. “Well that just goes to show how good a judge of character I am.”
― The Last God
― The Last God
“What a fabulous kingdom the mind is, and you the emperor of all of it. You can bed the duke's wife and have the duke strangled in your mind. A crippled man can think himself a dancer, and an idiot can fool himself wise. The day a magicker peeks into the thoughts of commoners for some thin-skinned duke or king will be a bad day. Those with callused hands will rise on that day, for a man will only toil in a mine so long as he can dream of sunny fields, and he'll only kneel for a tyrant if he can secretly cut that tyrant's throat in the close theater of his bowed head.”
― The Blacktongue Thief
― The Blacktongue Thief
Sword & Sorcery: "An earthier sort of fantasy"
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