'For Hood's sake,' the foreigner muttered. 'What's wrong with words?'

We are contrary creatures, us humans, but that isn't something we need be afraid of, or even much troubled by. And if you make a list of those people who worsh…

'- all these Dark Lords intent on creating wastelands packed with enslaved victims ... for what?'

The world, Ahlrada Ahn knew, was indifferent to the necessity of preservation. Of histories, of stories layered with meaning and import. It cared nothing for w…