Quotes from Scott Warren

One should not forget the sins of their forebears, but nor can one advance by paying witness only to the failings of the past. To bury the past is to progress, and only in breaking the chains that bind can you escape the prison your predecessors have laid.

She had tempted them as she had tempted him, with ancient knowledge and the path to power. But that past should stay buried, and power given easily comes with a terrible price. If

Maybe he knows it's cheaper to bribe a justice than to pay human labor.

Six turns." A more superstitious man might have taken that for a bad omen. Tanner only considered himself half-superstitious. He didn't believe in the good ones.

Jon can barely afford enough drink to forget how poor he is, and

More power added to a recording of poor poetry simply resulted in louder poor poetry.

His raider captain, Tellor, stood beside him at the command center more accurately described as a table one of the junior personnel had scavenged. Resourceful

Guns were loud, expensive, and generally inaccurate. Sensible modern men used crossbows, like