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== The Nameless One ==
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{{quote|''I am the Nameless One.''|'''Inscription on a Tomb''' }}
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'''The Transcendent One''': {{smallcaps|I have seen you live a countless lives, Broken One, I have ''lived'' your endless quests that accomplish nothing except spread your torment though the multiverse. Then, this is my answer and you are my proof: ''Nothing'' can change the nature of a man.}}
'''Nameless One''': You are wrong. If there is anything I have learned in my travels across the Planes, it is that many things may change the nature of a man. Whether regret, or love, or revenge or fear - whatever you believe can change the nature of a man, can. I've seen belief move cities, make men stave off death, and turn an evil hag's heart half-circle. This entire Fortress has been constructed from belief. Belief damned a woman, whose heart clung to the hope that another loved her when he did not. Once, it made a man seek immortality and achieve it. And it has made a posturing spirit think it is something more than a part of me.
'''The Transcendent One''': {{smallcaps|Believe what you will. You will ''die'' again, and you will ''forget'' again.}} }}
== Morte ==
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'Third wish?' The man was baffled. 'How can it be a third wish if I haven't had a first and second wish?'
'You've had two wishes already,' the hag said, 'but your second wish was for me to return everything to the way it was before you had made your first wish. That's why you remember nothing; because everything is the way it was before you made any wishes.' She cackled at the poor berk. 'So it is that you have one wish left.'
'All right,' said the man, 'I don't believe this, but there's no harm in wishing. I wish to know who I am.'
'Funny,' said the old woman as she granted his wish and disappeared forever. 'That was your first wish.' }}
== Dak'kon ==
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== Deionarra ==
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== Annah ==
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== Fall-from-Grace ==
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== Ignus ==
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== Nordom ==
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== Coaxmetal ==
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'''Coaxmetal''': {{smallcaps|Entropy has unmade them.}}
'''Nameless One''': What happened to planes this tower invaded?
'''Coaxmetal''': {{smallcaps|Entropy has unmade them.}}
'''Nameless One''': I...see. }}
== Yves Tale-Chaser ==
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'''Morte''': What a coincidence. [[Double Entendre|I too chase tails.]] }}
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Now, the oracle was not evil, but it was vague and tended towards drink, which caused it to be obscure in many matters of judgement and focus. Its only answer to the girl's question was that within one story that she would hear in her lifetime was the truth that she sought. The girl went off and collected stories, which she chases to this day, not knowing which of the thousands hold the truth.
Such is the danger of a foolish question and the wisdom of an unspoken one. }}
{{quote|Once upon a time, there existed a Modron. It was newly-created, its logic fresh and untested, and it had come to Sigil, following the commands of its Modron superiors.
It knew of nothing but commands and dictates, of obedience and passing along the orders of its superiors. For you see, Modrons are only aware of the commands of their immediate superiors - they have no grasp of a higher authority. Until this one.
One day it came upon a small shop, within which there was a small clock that could no longer tell time. It was cracked along the edges, the wheels of its hands broken. The Modron immediately set itself to work at getting the parts to fix the broken clock.
It made a new wooden housing for the clock's parts, replaced the bent springs, carefully filed and oiled the clockwork machinery, and carved new hands from the sparse metal available to it. The newly-repaired clock's precise ticking reminded it of the great gears of Mechanus, and it comforted it as much as any thing may comfort a Modron.
And what the Modron never came to understand was that it truly ''loved'' this clock that it had worked on, and for reasons it could not explain, elected to remain in Sigil and be with the clock for the rest of its years.|'''"The Clock and the Quadrome"'''}}
{{quote|The tale concerns a suitor of Lady of Pain, one of many over the years. He was a young man who was obsessed with the Mistress of Sigil. He saw her everywhere, in every corner of her city. He would hear the rustling of her robes, the scrape of her blades, and grew infatuated beyond all reason. He hoped that if he worshipped her, that he would at last be able to see her... and so worship her he did.
He was found dead on the blood-soaked steps of his own home, grievous stab wounds covering the whole of his body... but his eyes were open wide, and upon his lips was a triumphant smile.|'''"The Lady's Suitor"'''}}
== Ravel ==
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'''Nameless One''': I did forget for a time. But now I have returned.
'''Ravel''': Have you? But ''what'' has returned? }}
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== Trias, The Betrayer ==
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'''Nameless One''': What really happened to your wings, Trias?
'''Trias''': ''[Smiles]'' All the balefire and hate in all the hells can not compare with the wrath of a father's anger. }}
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'''Trias''': What? ''[And his mask of aching, divine beauty slips, consternation rolls across his features and you can glimpse the'' torment ''within, if only for a moment]'' }}
== Vhailor ==
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'''The Nameless One:''' I see.
'''Vhailor:''' No you do '''not''' see. Pray that you will '''never''' see. }}
== Other ==
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'''Old Mebbeth''': Ah, but so are you, child. }}
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== Conversations ==
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'''Nameless One''': Last chance? What are you talking about?
'''Morte''': Look chief, THEY'RE dead, WE'RE dead, see? Wink, wink?
'''Nameless One''': You ''can't'' be serious. }}
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'''Nameless One''': You are no Samaritan, Pharod. There must have been another reason.
'''Pharod''': ''[Pauses. Then his face contorts in rage.]'' Aye... after you had strung a score of my blood on the hive wall t'DIE, I had ''enough'' reason to promise you the PLANES themselves! And after your butchering self barges in my HOME, my KIP, to ask a 'boon' of me... ''[Regains control]'' Aye, I agreed.
'''Nameless One''': I... am sorry for your loss, for what that's worth. }}
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'''Nameless One''': And as deep as the greed of man.
'''Pharod''': Oh yes, and the greed of man is something that can counted upon when nothing else is left, eh? }}
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'''Morte''': Powers no, not another berk who talks... like... this. }}
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'''Ghrist''': Aye, as soon as ye finish with ye damn fool questions.
'''Nameless One''': You can try, but you'll die from a bellyache as I gut you.
'''Ghrist''': I'll take that chance. }}
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'''Nordom''': 'Cutest' is a subjective term. I prefer the designation "fearsome cubed warrior".
'''Fall-from-Grace''': Of course! That's why you're so cute. }}
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'''Morte''': Is Annah still wearing clothes?
'''Nordom''': Affirmatory.
'''Morte''': Then the answer is yes. }}
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'''Nordom''': Why do you persist in addressing me as a door?
'''Morte''': It's a joke, you stupid polygon! You're supposed to answer "Who's there?"
'''Nordom''': I know who is there. It is you. Why would I ask a question when I already know the answer?
'''Morte''': Just forget it. }}
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'''Fall-from-Grace''': Pardon me?
'''Nordom''': Your body. Your form. Your reason for selecting it. Why?
'''Fall-from-Grace''': Why... I suppose I find it comforting. Besides, I rather like the wings.
'''Nordom''': It would be more practical for you to assume the form of a modron. It is 13.27% more efficient. Give or take +5.2%.
'''Fall-from-Grace''': Why, Nordom, are you trying to court me?
'''Nordom''': It was not my intention to initiate legislation against you. }}
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'''Morte:''' Me? I'm the Head of Vecna. }}
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'''Morte:''' Me? I'm [[Bilingual Bonus|'le petit morte']].
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