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for with great monsters, you do not beat them by killing them, but by surviving.
They never liked when Vathi listened to him. Perhaps they’d understand if they listened more themselves.
The people of the homeisles had no more time for wild, vengeful gods who worked against them.
“I gave up Patji for the planet, Vathi, but I will not give up the planet to those people from the stars.”
Sometimes the only path forward is costly. We must travel it regardless.”
They faced one another for what might have been an uncomfortable amount of time for others. But he was used to silence, and she was used to him.
The manacles went cold, blocking her powers. But she didn’t need a dragon’s abilities—traditionally used to send comfort or bravery to those who offered them prayers—to inspire. Not if every word she said was true.
Humans would find a way to live anywhere, especially the places that didn’t want them.
Most common are variations on obsidian ground, like you see in Roshar, often inverted from the oceans. That has curious individuality when closer to the planet, but becomes a glassy, featureless plain farther out, eventually giving way to the unsea except where people travel Shadesmar with regularity.
“Dusk has come. We must look for new dawns, not old sunsets.”
It was like…he knew the rules of ordinary conversation, but chose to live outside them, like a verbal conscientious objector.
Was there a word for a person without a home, because his home had evolved into something new? A person without a future, because the future had no use for him?
‘Good sign, everyone! He died suddenly, so whatever’s about to murder us is probably going to do it quickly!’”
Technology has not killed the gods, Dusk, but it has made them smaller. I
