Blackstaff Tower Quotes

“The Crown of the North still rules all commerce and politics, but it can’t remotely claim to be the City of Splendors. This city needs heroes to bring back its life and luster. But gods know if I have it in me to be one.”
― Steven Schend, Blackstaff Tower

“The true Blackstaff was a massive entity of rune-inscribed dusk-wood, made black by years of use, melded with veins of silver metal rune-carved. Atop the staff was a large axe head in the shape of a snarling wolf’s head, its eyes aglow with green magic.”
― Steven Schend, Blackstaff Tower

“Your father said, ‘The door to truth opens with knowledge. The door to knowledge opens when you admit you do not understand.”
― Steven Schend, Blackstaff Tower

“Worse yet were the mausoleums and tombs. Eiruk knew they used to hold portals built by Ahghairon the Open Lord himself, allowing more burial space in uninhabited dimensions. The dangers of those portals had been put on display when the Gundwynds buried three of their own shortly after the Spellplague first hit Waterdeep.”
― Steven Schend, Blackstaff Tower

“Granek was short, stripped to the waist, and covered with hair, dirt, and blood. His graying hair hung loose and long, its receding hairline making it look like his hair slipped to the back of his head. The eye patch over his right eye failed to cover the two scars that crossed his forehead, temple, and upper cheek. He dropped the nail and hammer onto a side table and wiped the blood from his hands onto a rough leather apron and breeches he wore.”
― Steven Schend, Blackstaff Tower