Papa Wolf/Literature: Difference between revisions

{{quote|'''Khonar (about Asharak)''': ''{{spoiler|Our agent reported that he seemed a little nervous about something}}.''

'''Belgarath''':''{{spoiler|I can imagine. He's done something that offended me. I want to talk with him about it, and he'd rather avoid that conversation -- since it's very likely to involve my hanging his entrails on a fence someplace}}.'' }}

*** Polgara says herself that Asharak likely crawled under a rock someplace deep and dark and very well-hidden to hide, solely to escape from the wrath of her vengeful father. A man who, it must be said, is considered by Asharak and his people to be the equivalent of the Devil. Skilled Angarak sorcerers are terrified of being within fifty miles of facing him, and she has also admitted that his power is one of the only things in the world that has held the Angaraks back from just overrunning the west with sheer numbers. Not the sort of Papa Wolf you want chasing after you with a single-minded purpose so strong that he can literally ignore rest, food, and the other necessities of "mere mortals" for weeks or even months at a time.

**** As Polgara once put it: ''He has his faults, but once he gets down to business, he's [[Implacable Man|as inexorable as the tides.]]''

* There are some of these in the [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]].

** In ''[[Shadows of the Empire]]'', set some time before ''[[Return of the Jedi]]'', the real villain of the book, [[Smug Snake|Prince Xizor]], [[The Rival|does not get along well at all]] with Darth Vader. But they don't start to openly oppose each other until Vader finds that Xizor is trying to arrange for Luke Skywalker's death.

{{quote|'''Thrackan''': "General Antilles, acting as Chief of State and Minister of War for Corellia, I hereby order you to communicate with your daughter Syal and do your genuine best to persuade her to follow whatever course of action I recommend to her. Is that clear enough?"

'''Wedge''': "Absolutely."

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