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“What comes before determines what comes after,” Kellhus continued. “For the Dûnyain, there’s no higher principle.” “And just what comes before?” Cnaiür asked, trying to force a sneer. “For Men? History. Language. Passion. Custom. All these things determine what men say, think, and do. These are the hidden puppet-strings from which all men hang.” Shallow breath. A face freighted by unwanted insights. “And when the strings are seen . . .” “They may be seized.” In”
― The Darkness that Comes Before
― The Darkness that Comes Before
“Kings never lie. They demand the world be mistaken. —CONRIYAN PROVERB When”
― The Darkness that Comes Before
― The Darkness that Comes Before
“We Dûnyain, Cnaiür, are guides and trackers, students of the Logos, the Shortest Way. Of all the world, we alone have awakened from the dread slumber of custom. We alone.” He drew Cnaiür’s young hand to his lap. Thumbs probed the spaces between his calluses. How could bliss ache so? “Tell me, Chieftain-son, what do you desire before all things? What circumstance? Tell me, one who is awake, and I’ll show you the trail you must follow.” Cnai”
― The Darkness that Comes Before
― The Darkness that Comes Before
“But I’ve always believed,” Kellhus continued, “that one must ride another man’s horse for a day before criticizing.” “To better understand him?” “No,” the man replied with an eye-twinkling shrug. “Because then you’re a day away and you have his horse . . .” Achamian”
― The Darkness that Comes Before
― The Darkness that Comes Before
“Everything we say to one another, we also say to souls absent. We continually speak to the speech that comes after our voice, forever prepare those who would listen. No truth spoken is true simply because words have consequences, because voices move souls and souls move voices, a great radiation. This is why we so readily admit to corpses what we dare not confess to the living. This why only the executioner can speak without care of consequence. Our speech finds freedom only when the speaker is at an end. This”
― The Unholy Consult
― The Unholy Consult
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