"Many have condemned those who joined the Holy War for mercenary reasons, and doubtless, should this humble history find its way into their idle libraries, they will blast me as well. Admittedly, my reasons for joining the Holy War were “mercenary,” if by that one means I joined it in order to procure ends outside of the destruction of the heathen and the reconquest of Shimeh. But there were a great many mercenaries such as myself, and like myself, they inadvertently furthered the Holy War by killing their fair share of heathen. The failure of the Holy War had nothing to do with us. Did I say failure? Perhaps “transformation” would be a better word."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
DRUSAS ACHAMIAN, COMPENDIUM OF THE FIRST HOLY WAR
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Second_Apocalypse
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
The Second Apocalypse
171 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by The Second Apocalypse →
Related Quotes
"Men never resemble one another so much as when asleep or dead."
"The world has its own ways, sockets so deep that not even the Gods can dislodge them. No urn is so cracked as Fate."
"Everything is concealed always. Nothing is more trite than a mask."
"Things holy ... became mere versions of things unholy ... as though the words "holy" and "unholy" were as easily exch…"
"Achamian had crisscrossed the Three Seas, had seen many of those things that had once made his stomach flutter with s…"
"Avarice, it seemed to him, was the world's only dimension."
"There was nothing the ignorant prized more than the ignorance of others ."
"Above all the mighty detest change"
"Answers are like opium: the more you imbibe, the more you need. Which is why the sober man finds solace in mystery."
"Where the holy take men for fools, the mad take the world."