Editing Storm of Amber (section)

==Dreams of the First Age==
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! align="left" | <small>Intimacies
* I am a true horselord of the [[The Marukan Alliance|Marukan]], wild and unrestrained.
* My word is quickly given, and never broken.
* A leader must have strength enough to ride and to carry those who follow.
* The Mandate of Heaven falls to the Solars, so long as they are righteous.
* I love the [[Sweet Voice of Brass and Glory]], for she is the mirror I hold to see my virtue.
* The [[Nameless Ravine]] is the good sword that strikes down the unrighteous, but his blade is double-edged.
* [[Leaf Shakes the Wind]] is my eyes, and as deserving of my trust as they.
* The [[Mask of Winters]]' way is slavery, and there is no fate worse.
* [[Vaults the Moon]] carries me through fire and death; as his health, so mine.
* [[Rivers Between Us]] sacrifices much to be my brother, as I must sacrifice for him in turn.</small>
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"Of course I was there when the others came for my lord, blessed be his mercy.  I was his seneschal: head of his household and keeper of his records.  I carried his maps, may their ink never fade, as he led his armies against the foes of Creation.  I copied his words, may they echo through eternity, as he delivered the judgements of the Deliberative.  I would do no less than witness his end.  

"Understand that my lord, honor be upon him, is not to blame for what happened.  The Lawgivers were proud in their glory and would brook no interference in their affairs, even from one of their own.  And my lord's heart, may it ever be praised, had grown so big by then; I once saw him throw a man to the side rather than see him trod upon a flower, and then weep for days at the sight of that man's artlessly broken neck.  Can you imagine how much worse it was when he saw the Twilights twist a man's bones into starlight, the man screaming in pain all the while?  A city fell, that day. 

"So they came for him, in all their glory and rage, and my master, peace be his prize, could not steel his heart enough to cut his brothers down.  When he was no more they built for him a far-off tomb, they sealed away [[Third-Arm Glaive|his great spear]], stinging be its strikes, they tore apart his servants and erased the memory of his name.  I alone they overlooked, as is a seneschal's lot.  

"His Essence returned, of course.  Right into the heart of the Usurpation.  He died before I could seek him out; he was again but new to his power and never really stood a chance.  I will miss him, for he was kind to me, but I do not think I will ever see him again."

-- ''Nabu, Ifrit, Servant of a Nameless Zenith''