Archmaester Rigney once wrote that history is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again, he said.

“Great wrongs have been done you, but the past is dust. The future may yet be wo…”

“That is the nature of prophecy... Prophecy will bite your prick off every time.”

“Las verdades más dolorosas son a las que más hay que aferrarse.”

“I remembered that, so I allowed myself to hope... perhaps I wanted to... we all…”