Bomanz had lived his lies so long he often lied to himself. - Glen Cook

“Used to be” is not worth the breeze on which it is scribbled.

Though it might wear a thousand different names in a thousand different times, and might come from a thousand different directions, darkness always comes.

Baladitya understands that in addition to being foreign territory the past is, as history, a hall of mirrors that reflect the needs of souls observing from the present. Absolute fact serves the hungers of only a few disconnected people. Symbol and faith serve the rest.