Swords of Eveningstar Quotes

“ADVENTURERS AVAUNT! There is no greater plague upon the lands than the chartered adventurer. Crown-sanctioned mischief makers, brigands whose thefts, casual murders, rapine and pillage are excused where the same things done by a cobbler or a milkmaid would be answered with severings of hands or other appendages, plus brandings—or all of those and hanging or death by drawing between four horses. Yet there is no more necessary plague. Adventurers make even kings think twice about cruelly oppressing all who pass within reach, teach prudence to high priests and even rogue wizards, and are almost the only curb upon the numbers of dragons and other large and monstrous beasts. On the whole, I think the balance comes out about even. What makes us keep adventuring charters instead of burning them along with their bearers is the entertainment adventurers afford the populace. In hamlets and at waymoots, after one’s grumbled about the weather, taxes, the latest rumors of war and orc raids, and the all-too-paltry gossip about the indiscretions of royalty and nobility, there’s little else to talk about but the foolish escapades of adventurers. Thundaerlel Maurlatrimm
Four Decades of Innkeeping
published in the Year of the Highmantle”
― Ed Greenwood, Swords of Eveningstar

“Glory always has a price, and that cost is almost always paid in copiously spilled blood.”
― Ed Greenwood, Swords of Eveningstar

“Memories are treasures,” he murmured. “Lock the best of them in your mind forever, the most splendid moments, and throw away the rest. Any day when you gain such a treasure is a day well-spent.”
― Ed Greenwood, Swords of Eveningstar

“Always face what you mislike, do battle with it, and get it done: all the more time then for what you prefer, yes?”
― Ed Greenwood, Swords of Eveningstar

“Great things befall when one is brave enough to do something bold, strange, and unusual.”
― Ed Greenwood, Swords of Eveningstar

“The bed that awaited him was of his own building. And its name was “adventure.”
― Ed Greenwood, Swords of Eveningstar