‘It comes down to this, my dear. Every action we take has many consequences, some for good, some for evil.‘
– Tamis, to Derae, Dark Prince/p>
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‘One day, perhaps you too will be old, your skin dry and mottled, your teeth loose in your jaws. But inside you will be as you always were – except that you will find yourself trapped in a decaying shell.‘
– Tamis, to Parmenion, Lion of Macedon
‘We none of us know where our actions will lead. That is why the followers of the Source must not use the weapons of evil. Everything we do must be governed by love.‘
– Tamis, to Derea, Dark Prince
‘Once there was a city under siege. The enemy King said that he would spare the city if the inhabitants took a single babe and sacrificed it to him on the battlements. Now the city could not hold against him and surely, it was argued, the slaying of a single babe would be better than seeing all the babes of the city killed then the attacker breached the walls.
But they understood that you do not turn aside a great evil by allowing a small one to be committed. Evil grows. Give way once and you will give away again… and again.’
– Tamis, to Derae, Dark Prince
‘Yet I was wise once, I knew many secrets. But all wisdom is folly. We think we manipulate, but we are being manipulated. We think we have power, but we are as leaves in a storm. We do good works, that lead to evil. All is confusion. All is vanity.’
– Tamis, to Derae, Lion of Macedon
‘With each heartbeat a man has two choices. Yet each choice makes a pathway, and he must walk it wherever it takes him. You stand at a crossroads.‘
– Tamis, to Parmenion, Lion Of Macedon