Funny, isn’t it? No matter what language they speak, everyone sounds the same when you pull out their fingernails.”– Dread Emperor Foul III, “the Linguist

Where have all the good men gone? Graveyards, mostly.”– Dread Emperor Malevolent III, the Pithy

What Foundling does isn’t thinking outside the box so much as stealing the box and hitting her opponents with it until they stop moving.”– Extract from “A Commentary on the Uncivil Wars”, by Juniper of the Red Moon Clan

The patient knife always strikes true.”– Soninke saying

Trust is the victory of sentiment over reason.”-Extract from the personal memoirs of Dread Emperor Terribilis II

Always mistrust these three: a battle that seems won, a chancellor who smiles and a ruler calling you friend.”– Extract from the personal journals of Dread Emperor Terribilis II

Grand designs in war are a thing of vanity. Victory goes to the general that blunders the least.”– Theodosius the Unconquered, Tyrant of Helike

All lessons worth learning are drenched in blood.”-Dread Empress Triumphant, First and Only of Her Name

Diplomacy is the art of selling a deal you don’t want to people you don’t trust for reasons you won’t admit to.”-Prokopia Lekapene, first and only Hierarch of the League of Free Cities