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"Listen to me. I will not lie to you. The Nansur can afford no quarter, because they can afford no Truth! We all die this night!

He let these words ring into silence.

I know nothing of your Afterlife. I know nothing of your Gods or their greed for glory. But I do know this: In days to come, widows shall curse me as they weep! Fields shall go to seed! Sons and daughters shall be sold into slavery! Fathers shall die desolate, knowing their line is extinct! This night. I shall carve my mark into the Nansurium, and thousands shall cry out for want of my mercy!

And the spark became flame.
Scylvendi! they roared. Scylvendi!"



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"Hands clutched for his arms and he shattered wrists, punctured faces. Forms tackled his torso and he snapped necks, crushed spines. He tossed lifeblood skyward, nailed beating hearts still. All the world had become rotted leather, and he was the only iron. The only iron.

He was of the People"



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'You know nothing of war. War is dark. Black as pitch. It is not a God. It does not laugh or weep. It rewards neither skill nor daring. It is not a trial of souls, nor the measure of wills. Even less is it a tool, a means to some womanish end. It is merely the place where the old bones of the earth meet the hollow bones of men and break them.'


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"You would sound me. Make clear the riddle of the Scylvendi heart. But you use your own hearts to map mine. You see a man abased before you, Xunnurit. A man bound to me by kinship of blood. What an offense this must be, you say. His heart must cry for vengeance.And you say this because your heart would so cry. But my heart is not your heart. This is why it is a riddle to you."


"You killed the Sapatishah's son?"
"Eventually," the Scylvendi said. "First I made him sing."