The king of all creation fell out of heaven, usurped by a seven headed beast. But the old king shall choose a new, and he will ignite the Third Conquest. He will be flanked by a white and a black flame, His coming will be followed by 108 burning stars. He will bear the terrible heat of the voice in his brow, the mark of his lordliness. He will face the beast—and he will annihilate it.
He will wield the terrible blade of Want, and the pillars of heaven will quake with his coming.
And his name—his name will be—
KILL SIX BILLION DEMONS.
He will wield the terrible blade of Want, and the pillars of heaven will quake with his coming.
And his name—his name will be—
KILL SIX BILLION DEMONS.
— The Prophecy of the Successor
"My name is Allison Ruth. I have to find my boyfriend in an insane world of dead gods and monsters - and rescue him."
[...]
"Wow, that sounds corny out loud. I'm not OK with any of this, by the way."
— Allison Ruth
"Here's a proverb for you: 'A pebble cast today is the start of a thousand-year causeway'. My master was fond of it. But I will mention that my master slept in a barrel in the marketplace. She was also habitually drunk. So her advice is rather untrustworthy. As is mine. The only thing you can trust from me is my cooking. I should mention I am likewise habitually drunk."
— Mathangi Ten Meti, aka Murder The Gods And Topple Their Thrones
"Pree Ashma. Yis-Asram, the Blooded One. Yis-Prama, Hansa and Prat Pavam, who temper my heart. Yisun Atru Vyam. Forgive me for this violence I am about to inflict."
— 82 White Chain Born in Emptiness Returns to Subdue Evil, repeatedly
"Reach heaven through violence."
— Common saying
"Money and Power through Homicide."
— The motto of the Badstar gang
"If it has a pulse, Take its skull! If it builds a house, Smash it flat! Strength is my God, The God of Shapes, If my God should fail me, I will kill him too."
— Sword Law Mantra of the Knights Belligerent
In the void, angelic consciousnesses craned towards the ship, Incubus reclined in the space between thoughts and readied a pencil to take notes, and Himself shifted in his iron cradle, so that a single mammoth ear might recognize the voice of the Successor as it replied.
And yea, the Successor spoke thus: "Wait, like from Transformers?"
And yea, the Successor spoke thus: "Wait, like from Transformers?"
"Fate is not a cage except for those who fear it. A true ruler is the wielder of names. By names she cuts the world as she pleases, and she cuts herself into greater forms still. She is not shaped by the world, but instead becomes the shaper. There's work to be done. What shape will you choose, hm? Will you choose to be a king? Or will you choose to remain as you are? Peasant!"
— Zoss, the Conquering King, to Allison
“No. I choose king.”
— Allison Ruth, responding to Zoss
"Hey, I get it. I really hate myself too. But I don't go around pillaging the entire multiverse!"
— Allison Ruth to Mother Om.
"Speak with a key, will with a key, and thy voice will align with that of the divine. Cut a portal between worlds. Stride the Lightning. Make and unmake as tha wishes."
— Cio
"Take care of slaying dragons, Alice - lest ye become one."
— Zoss, the Conquering King, to Allison
"I might cry a bit afterwards, but— you really think a normal girl from Los Angeles can't slay a dragon?"
— Allison Ruth to herself
"It was at that exact moment that Allison realized that a normal girl from LA may not, in fact, be able to slay a dragon."
— Alt text a few pages later
"Here I am again. In over my head. An idiot, getting the shit kicked out of her. An idiot who's trying. Trying. Trying so damn hard. I hope he's watching. Because we both know it's a test for me. Like everything else in this world. Scorn for me for breathing the air I did not earn. The power I should not possess. It's only been pain. ...but I've got scars now. And I've been listening to my damn teacher."
— Allison Ruth
"Behold! The awesome fires of God. The limitless power of pure creation itself. Look carefully. Observe how it is used for the same purpose a man might use an especially sharp rock."
— Meti ten Ryo
"I spent all my life mastering the wheel, and in time became its lord. Yet for all my effort, I found the world always spun inevitably towards ruin. In my arrogance, I clung to victory. I mustered up all my dreadful might and secret arts, believing this fate could be prevented. Yet in doing so I have built a prison. Not only for myself, but for the very world. This was my final relevation: The King of Swords must cast aside his blade and let his burden be taken by another. He that masters the wheel cannot break it. Do you understand, Alice? In the end, even I could not fight alone. At the pinnacle of my mastery. Your struggle must be a terrible fire, which only grows as you pass it to others. Let it be fed beyond the boundaries of the feeble soul of so-called princes, emperors and 'heroes'. Strength beyond strength. Remember this and awaken to your true fate."
— Zoss, Master of the Wheel and King of Swords
"I am my own Justification. So says I. This is the Law of Kings. Either make it your own or know your place."
— Solomon David
"Ah, little tyrant. No man is sovereign from man. Your 'Law of Kings' is no more substantial than a fart. In time it too shall dissolve into spectacle. The Mass remembers. The Mass is immortal. And most of all the Mass always wins"
— Gog-Agog, mocking Solomon David
You there! Blackguard! Enough! God, called YISUN, has entrusted us with the world itself! How can we be so prideful as to judge it? She is the only one of us not afraid of fulfilling her duty and yet we spurn her for it! NO LONGER! By my honor as a Knight of the Holy Concordance, UNHAND OUR SISTER!
— 10 Vigilant Gaze Purges The Horizon
"At every chance, you act without consideration. You seek power without thought. Try as I might, I cannot make you escape your nature. You are not a savior, or a victim! You are merely one more of the ruiners of heaven - of those who seek to choke the world with their own ambition. I name you as you are - DEMIURGE!"
— 82 White Chain Born in Emptiness Returns to Subdue Evil
"Hello, little princes. Today I have killed five thousand men. Tomorrow I will kill five thousand more. I have killed so much I have forgotten the face of my mother. I have forgotten the warmth of bread taken from the hearth. Today, as I killed five thousand men, I thought of very little. Tomorrow, I expect, shall be the same. When my work is done, there will be a mound so high that it will stick in the eye of God. Have you come to add to the pile?"
—Yaun, The Lion of the Dead Men
