"Ambition quickens the heart, Strength excites the loins, Conquest makes immortals of the valourous - this the Asoloni know, for they are favoured of the Great Bull."
"The Engyr took to the Arpak Mountains to escape the constant wars between the city-states of the Shining South. They cultivate themselves through philosophical rumination, sustaining themselves as virtuous shepherds and humble bandits."
"Though their Tusik cousins regard them with wariness and scorn, the nomadic Hexen rarely have trouble finding posts in the courts of the Empire's nobility as soothsayers and advisors on matters of the occult."
"The cursed Quelosqi cling to their city of coral and limestone like phantoms, watching it sink over the course of aeons. What do they care? The ocean provides - their nets ever drawing up the bounty of the sea, including their queer, sickly gold."
"From pearl diver to teahouse matron, every Zardezi knows: Time is a perception, luck is a skill, the Spider watches all and the city-state of Gozenram is the axis of the world."
