Echoes of Eternity Quotes

“Whatever was true and whatever would turn out false, Vulkan swung the hammer that day with enough force to tear through the fuselage of a Stormbird gunship. The blow he levelled at his brother’s heart would have shattered the shin of a Warlord Titan. Magnus caught the hammer, one-handed. The monster gazed down into Vulkan’s dark, straining features, and the flesh around the monster’s one great eye wrinkled as he grinned. ‘Vulkan,’ purred the daemon prince. ‘I told you to stay back.”
― Aaron Dembski-Bowden, Echoes Of Eternity

“The concept of luck flew in the face of the Omnissiah’s divine plan and was therefore a falsehood.”
― Aaron Dembski-Bowden, Echoes of Eternity

“Society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.”
― Aaron Dembski-Bowden, Echoes Of Eternity

“There it was again, the treasonous little notion Ulienne couldn’t quite shake. Horus was a hero, the Warmaster of the Imperium, the pacifier of the galaxy. Of course she’d followed him. The Legio Audax had willingly worn his colours and cast their fate with his. But what would be left after this war? What would be left of Terra and the armies fighting to take it?
Surely even now, quiescent alien kingdoms at the Imperium’s edges were reawakening, daring to cast jealous eyes at the worlds they’d lost in the Great Crusade. Would there be enough of the Warmaster’s hosts left to hold the Imperium in its entirety? And what would those hosts look like, with all order and discipline and humanity raked out of them? The Legiones Astartes were already blood-maddened and fighting by the side of those… those things. The regiments of Imperial Army wearing the Warmaster’s Eye were no better. Ulienne Grune didn’t want peace. Peace was boring. Peace was for the weak. She wanted wars she could win.”
― Aaron Dembski-Bowden, Echoes of Eternity