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‘You grew up with Genghis as your grandfather, my lord. I suppose you know about a man’s long shadow.’
‘They seem like giants,’ Kublai muttered. ‘I know the feeling very well.’

‘I remember you. You have returned from the Sung lands, then?’
Kublai chuckled. ‘You are a man of rare insight, with me standing before you. Now surrender your city, Lord Alghu. I will not ask again.’

‘Our withdrawal,’ Kublai echoed, sounding as if he did not understand... ‘Orlok, you do not understand me at all,’ Kublai said softly. ‘I am home. This is my khanate. I will not abandon it.’

...he realised that at a stroke he had become one of the richest men in the world. He laughed as he stood there, seeing the wealth of ancient nations.

‘You ask me to leave my people defenceless.’
‘They are already defenceless,’ Hulegu said, with a wave of his hand. ‘Look around you once more, caliph, and tell me it is not so.’

'It had been a risk, even a luxury, to seek out the Assassins, but he could not regret it. For a short time, he had walked in the steps of Genghis.'

Loving the politics in Karakorum and the relationship between the 4 brothers. damn, Hulegu is Genghis 2.0.
‘I will give you horses,’ Hulegu said. 'Ride west and south and tell them I am coming...Tell them that if a city, or a town, or a single home bars its doors to me, I will visit destruction on them all, until the earth itself cries out in pain.’

‘The line of Tolui has come to rule,’ he said, glancing at Kublai. ‘We will not let it pass from us, not now...Everything that has gone before was to prepare our line for this moment, here. Four brothers in a room, with the world a sweet virgin waiting for us.’

Can't believe I've come to the final book of this series, seems like only yesterday i started the first one.