20 Quotes by Ian Tregillis

Clakkers carried complex geasa by dint of alchemy; humans carried heavy obligations, too, but called them culture. Society.

For the creation of the mechanicals was a seismic event, an earth-rending convulsion that left nothing untouched: palaces, thrones, and empires, yes, but also the way men and women thought about themselves and their relationship to the world, to God, even their own bodies.