Status Updates From Throne Hunters #3

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Haraad grinned. "Oh, just you wait. Count Gorkin's notgoing to know what hit him."

“It isn’t enough to declare people your friends, Harald. You must make them so. And the only way to make that true is by spending the most precious coin any of us have on them: time.”

“So, step one: externalize. Step two: meditate on your fury. Step three: prepare for the day you succumb to your frenzy, and forgive yourself in advance.

If you’re ready to fuck up, to make mistakes, and not simply give up on yourself altogether once you do, you’ll find that you’ll survive those moments of weakness by returning to strength."

“Acknowledging it, thinking of it outside of you, is the first step in gaining some measure of control. If you’re furious, seeing red, simply being able to say to yourself ‘I am feeling fury,’ lessens its grip on you. You are not the fury. You are feeling furious. Externalize that murderous rage, that hateful passion, see it in your mind’s eye, and you remove yourself a step from its influence.”

You don’t need help learning to devour your foes, no - what you need is help so that you don’t destroy your friends, yourself, and everything around you.”

“Words are like keys. They can only cause pain where they fit the lock.”

Fosso was always eating.
Gorkin loved that about him.
A man of known appetites was a known quantity.

“Instead…” Harald sat up, trying to think of something. “Instead, we’ll make it a test of some sort. You… let’s say each week you set me a trial of some kind. I don’t know. Something easy at first. Whatever. And if I accomplish it, then you give me another week. If I fail, then we fight that week.”

“Which is why you were targeted to begin with,” said Pastoric. “You are one of those potential heroes that the demons fear.”

“Harald is a man of light and darkness. His waking mind is spent in the sunlight, but his actions are guided by his nightself. He fears that self who guides his actions, and struggles against him, but for Nessa he was willing to embrace that darkness so as to free her.”