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I was needed, but I myself did not need. I had followers, but not allies, and only now do I understand the difference. And it is vast.

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Steven Erikson
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 7
Anthropologist
Archaeologist
Novelist
Writer
City of Toronto
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First in , Last out. Motto of the bridgeburners
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None could guess my confusion, my host of deluded illusions and elusive delusions! A mantle of marble hiding a crumbling core of sandstone. See how they stare at me, wondering, all wondering, at my secret wellspring of wisdom...' Let's kill him,' Crokus muttered, 'if only to put him out of our misery.
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Never, dear gods. Never mess with mortals.
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