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“If I’m going to die, I want to go knowing I left you safe and right with yourself.”
“Even if it means the ruin of your legacy?…If it means you die a footnote in your own history?”

Ohh no, not again.

“The High Magistry controls the history books, Freynan. You know that. If they don’t want Tiran to remember something, then within a few short generations, it will be buried.”

“The way I was orphaned… It’s not something I can compare to the crossing. I understand that. But I’m also starting to understand that the culture that had my mother die alone, that left me without a father is the same culture that orphaned you. The experiences aren’t the same, but they’re all connected.”

“That was the canonized destiny of men like Derrith Bringham. They did what a man was supposed to: they revered and obeyed the men who had come before them, strove for greatness in the model of their predecessors, and, in the end, they were rewarded with power, acclaim, and dominion over lesser beings—a small godhood of their own.”

Sciona moral dilemma on if she is a good person

“The second man has no such good intentions. Every decision he makes is out of self-interest, spite, intent to harm, or… whatever motivations his culture might deem unsavoury… The majority of his actions end up changing his community for the better.

…Who is the good man?”

The first man lives his whole life with good intentions, every decision made because he believes it to align with his values... The majority of his well-intentioned decisions end in disaster for others.”
“And the second man?”

So it’s the Iron Dome, got it got it

Oh I just know Bringham’s a gaslighting accomplice 😤