The Mist
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“It didn’t sound like elephants,” I said. “It sounded like—” Like something from the primordial ooze


“I remembered those elements in Scile, the little opacities that had always been present, that I’d always been intrigued by, that now seemed to have come to constitute all of him.”
― Embassytown
― Embassytown
“There are very few legends about the origins of Allomancy, and nearly all of them agree that Allomancers first ‘appeared with the mists.”
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“Long ago, an edict was made by the planetary government that only certain fields of land could ever be used for burial. So cemetery space is at an optimum. Hence, the Law of Decipherability.’ ‘Which is?’ ‘The law states that once the eroding hands of time and the elements have made the last names on a field’s gravestones illegible, the anonymous dead may be exhumed, the bones buried in a pit, and the field reused.”
― Malleus
― Malleus
“Fögur er hlíðin”
― Brennu-Njáls saga
― Brennu-Njáls saga
“Eigi er það sættarrof," segir Njáll, "að hver hafi lög við annan því að með lögum skal land vort byggja en eigi með ólögum eyða.”
― Brennu-Njáls saga
― Brennu-Njáls saga

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