"We give you the best of us, but the price we put on our souls is high. Many are unaware of the sacrifices they will make, others steel themselves for the coming storm, knowing that though they'll survive, it won't be without grievous loss and many scars. Solemnly they gaze into the insidious darkness, swirling clouds of desolation and heartbreak, eyes dimmed by the memory of countless losses beforehand, sobered by the battle to come. Valiantly they stride forth, vowing not to let themselves be taken, changed, broken; cast into something new, something darker than before. Veteran readers, soldiers of infinite war, they will all fall one day. Whisked away suddenly into the darkness, pierced through the chest by formless light, agonized cries echoing loudly across the stone faces and deaf ears of their gods. We do not ask for gold and silver, precious gems to please the eye and turn others hearts green, not for any earthly pleasures, be they food or flesh. All we ask, all we crave, what we will always take, no matter how bitter the fight, how awful the challenge, is your heart. Each and every one of you will perish by our hands, stained with ink and wizened by labor. And yet you think you can win. Ha! Fools, you are sorely mistaken." 

- The Red Fénix

"Our arrogance is of a magnitude you cannot comprehend. We flaunt ourselves in front of our audience with unjustifiable patronage, deeming that we have accomplished that which you have never even dreamed. It is an unfortunate thing indeed, that so many of us lose sight of that which is paramount. Is there any way you could forgive us, though we are so undeserving?" 

- The Azul Wolf