The Masked Empire Quotes

“My name, among our people, means ‘slow arrow.’ It comes from a story in which the god Fen’Harel was asked by a village to kill a great beast. He came to the beast at dawn, and saw its strength, and knew it would slay him if he fought it. So instead, he shot an arrow up into the sky. The villagers asked Fen’Harel how he would save them, and he said to them, ‘When did I say that I would save you?’ And he left, and the great beast came into the village that night and killed the warriors, and the women, and the elders. It came to the children and opened its great maw, but then the arrow that Fen’Harel had loosed fell from the sky into the great beast’s mouth, and killed it. The children of the village wept for their parents and elders, but still they made an offering to Fen’Harel of thanks, for he had done what the villagers had asked. He had killed the beast, with his cunning, and a slow arrow that the beast never noticed.”
― Patrick Weekes, The Masked Empire

“The chevalier who would kill peasants without flinching shed tears for his horse.”
― Patrick Weekes, The Masked Empire

“A man who acted quickly and aggressively was praised as bold and daring. A woman who did the same was foolish or desperate.”
― Patrick Weekes, The Masked Empire

“Tell me, Morrac,” Celene said, and paused to sip her tea. “You study
mathematics. Are you familiar with the number zero?”

“Yes, Your Radiance,” Morrac said after a moment of silence, when it became
clear that the question was not rhetorical. He took the teacup Celene’s servant offered him
with scarcely concealed irritation.

“Excellent. That is the number of students at your university who do not come
from noble blood. I confess to some disappointment in that matter, Chancelier Morrac, as
I had hoped to see some improvement since our last talk.”
― Patrick Weekes, Dragon Age: The Masked Empire (The Dragon Age Series) (Dragon Age

“We are always in battle,” Celene said. “It is only that some of us do not always realize it. A bard named Marjolaine once told me that. I heard she met an unfortunate end in Ferelden.” She sighed. “Isn’t that sad, Nightingale?”
― Patrick Weekes, The Masked Empire