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Dedication
"As darkness enfolds this aged flesh long ago grown cold, the regrets come. Regrets. To never see the sun or feel its warmth long night after darkened night through an eternity."
"We alone among all Earth’s creatures know what longing is, for we have given up God’s rest. We yearn for a single spark to pierce the gloom that descends upon us as we hide our faces away from each new dawn, night after shrouded night."
"What do the carping anarchs know of longing? Of loss? Of oppression? We are oppressed by time itself, by the sadistic jest that is unlife eternal, lived for centuries."
"Immortality is not a blessing. It is the most monstrous of burdens."
"Of all the issue of God, none but we precious few know the pain that comes with centuries -- the weight of responsibility, the cumber of authority, the yoke that is power."
"And yet to yield up a morsel of it is to incur utter and total humiliation. We will not step aside. We will not degrade ourselves to give up control or share power with the young."
"Let all the harrows of hell come to our door seeking what we have built in many lifetimes of toil. I will drag them all back down to the land of shades before I surrender a blot of pride."
-- Elysium, the Elder Wars (VTM -- 1994).
