"For over a thousand generations, the Jedi Knights were the guardians of peace and justice in the Old Republic. Before the dark times... before The Empire. ... Now the Jedi are all but extinct."
— Obi-Wan Kenobi, Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
"Not the last of the old Jedi, Luke. The first of the new."
— Obi-Wan Kenobi, Heir To The Empire
To those who think they know us, we are graybeards and eaters of dust. Wrapped in brocade and sequestered in crumbling archives, we're said to mumble away our years in ancient nonsense. At times, such conceptions have seemed true. But now, from the ashes of our forebears flies a new Hermetic Order - one that shall ignite the era that has dawned.
—Mage: The Ascension - Tradition Book: Order of Hermes (revised)
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