Mastery over life and death was chief among my early pursuits. I began in humility, but my ambition was limitless. Who could have divined the prophetic import of something as unremarkable as a twitch in the leg of a dead rat?

Quote	Mastery over life and death was chief among my early pursuits. I began in humility, but my ambition was limitless. Who could have divined the prophetic import of something as unremarkable as a twitch in the leg of a dead rat?
Quote Order	89
Description	This is a quote from Darkest Dungeon. This quote is from 'Starting an expedition to kill a boss.'
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Category	Starting an expedition to kill a boss
Sub-category	Ruins
Sub-sub-category	Necromancer

Quote: Even the fiercest beast will lay down when it has not eaten. Steal their food.
Category:
Starting an expedition to kill a boss
Sub-category:
Entering the Warrens

Even the fiercest...

Quote: I always wondered what became of the unfortunate little waif...
Category:
Starting an expedition to kill a boss
Sub-category:
Entering the Coves

I always wondered...

Quote: Simple folk are by their nature loquacious, and the denizens of the Hamlet were no exception. It was not long before rumors of my morbid genius and secretive excavations began to fuel local legend. In the face of my increasingly egregious flaunting of public taboos, awe turned to ire, and demonstrations were held in the town square.
Category:
Starting an expedition to kill a boss
Sub-category:
Weald

Simple folk are...

Quote: Excavations beneath the manor were well underway, when a particular ragged indigent arrived in the hamlet. This filthy, toothless miscreant boasted an uncanny knowledge of my ambitions and prognosticated publicly that left unchecked, I would soon unleash doom upon the world.
Category:
Starting an expedition to kill a boss
Sub-category:
Ruins

Excavations beneath the...

Quote: In financial desperation, I struck a bargain with the ancient things that surfaced in search of sacrifice when the moon was right. Their price was the delivery of an obscure idol and one other item of more troubling portent. The pact struck, my newfound accomplices slipped silently beneath the brackish water. A fearful stirring at the edge of the torchlight betrayed a familiar witness, and gifted me with malign inspiration.
Category:
Starting an expedition to kill a boss
Sub-category:
Cove

In financial desperation,...

Quote: The Great Thing I had managed to bring through was brutish and stupid. Moreover, it required prodigious amounts of meat to sustain itself, but this was only a trifling concern – after all, I had a village full of it.
Category:
Starting an expedition to kill a boss
Sub-category:
Warrens

The Great Thing...

Quote: The poor devils, chained and drowning for eternity...
Category:
Starting an expedition to kill a boss
Sub-category:
Entering the Coves

The poor devils,...

Quote: The wild whispers of heresy roused the rabble to violent action. Such was the general air of rebellion that even my generous offer of gold to the local constabulary was rebuffed! To reassert my rule, I sought out unscrupulous men skilled in the application of force. Tight-lipped and terrifying, these mercenaries brought with them a war machine of terrible implication.
Category:
Starting an expedition to kill a boss
Sub-category:
Weald

The wild whispers...

Quote: The flopping, fish-like things abhore the warding sigils. Let us claim this place anew!
Category:
Starting an expedition to kill a boss
Sub-category:
Entering the Coves

The flopping, fish-like...

Quote: The smell of sulfur and gunpowder hangs in the air, the war machine is close.
Category:
Starting an expedition to kill a boss
Sub-category:
Entering the Weald

The smell of...

Quote: I entertained a delegation of experts from overseas, eager to plumb the depths of their knowledge and share with them certain techniques and alchemical processes I had found to yield wondrous and terrifying results. Having learned all I could from my visiting guests, I murdered them as they slept.
Category:
Starting an expedition to kill a boss
Sub-category:
Ruins

I entertained a...

Quote: I could not store such a prodigious amount of offal, nor could I rid myself of it easily, possessed as was by unnameable things from outer spheres. When excavations beneath the Manor broke through into an ancient network of aqueducts and tunnels, I knew I had found a solution to the problem of disposal.
Category:
Starting an expedition to kill a boss
Sub-category:
Warrens

I could not...

Quote: Eager to end the tiresome domestic distraction, I instructed my newly formed militia of hardened bandits, brigands and killers to go forth and do their work. Compliance and order were restored, and the noisome population of the Hamlet was culled to more... manageable numbers.
Category:
Starting an expedition to kill a boss
Sub-category:
Weald

Eager to end...

Quote: The spasmodically squirming, braying, and snorting half-corpses were heaped each upon the other until at last I was rid of them. The Warrens became a landfill of snout and hoof, gristle and bone – a mountainous, twitching mass of misshapen flesh fusing itself together in the darkness.
Category:
Starting an expedition to kill a boss
Sub-category:
Warrens

The spasmodically squirming,...

Quote: My zeal for blood rituals and summoning rites had begun to ebb as each attempt invariably brought only failure, and disappointment. Progress was halting, and the rapidly accumulating surplus of wasted flesh had become... burdensome.
Category:
Starting an expedition to kill a boss
Sub-category:
Warrens

My zeal for...

Quote: My first attempts at summoning were crude and the results, disappointing. I soon found however, that the type and condition of the host's meat was a critical factor. The best results came from pigs, whose flesh is most like that of man.
Category:
Starting an expedition to kill a boss
Sub-category:
Warrens

My first attempts...

Quote: To prosecute our war against the Swine, we must first scout their squalid homes.
Category:
Starting an expedition to kill a boss
Sub-category:
Entering the Warrens

To prosecute our...

Quote: The fiends must be driven back, and what better place to begin than the seat of our noble line?
Category:
Starting an expedition to kill a boss
Sub-category:
Entering the Ruins

The fiends must...

Quote: There is method in the wild corruption here. It bears a form both wretched and malevolent.
Category:
Starting an expedition to kill a boss
Sub-category:
Entering the Weald

There is method...

Quote: I knew all these paths once; now they are as twisted as my own ambitions.
Category:
Starting an expedition to kill a boss
Sub-category:
Entering the Weald

I knew all...

Quote: There is power in symbols. Collect the scattered scraps of faith and give comfort to the masses.
Category:
Starting an expedition to kill a boss
Sub-category:
Entering the Ruins

There is power...

Quote: While the greedy dogs slept off their revelry, I hexed their anchor with every twisted incantation I could muster - imbuing it with the weight of my ambition, and my contempt for their crude extortion. At the witching hour, the anchor pulled with preternatural force, dragging craft and crew down into the depths. They must have cried out, but no sound escaped the swirling black waters...
Category:
Starting an expedition to kill a boss
Sub-category:
Cove

While the greedy...

Quote: Recover these lost shipments of rarities, that we may prevent them from falling into even less scrupulous hands...
Category:
Starting an expedition to kill a boss
Sub-category:
Entering the Coves

Recover these lost...

Quote: I employed a crew of particularly unsavory mariners, who, for a time, sailed the four corners at my behest - retrieving many valuable artifacts, relics and rare texts. Predictably, they increased their tariffs to counter my intense stipulations of secrecy. Such resources had long been exhausted, of course, and so I prepared an... alternative payment.
Category:
Starting an expedition to kill a boss
Sub-category:
Cove

I employed a...

Quote: Corruption has soaked the soil, sapping all good life from these groves - let us burn out this evil.
Category:
Starting an expedition to kill a boss
Sub-category:
Entering the Weald

Corruption has soaked...

Quote: These salt-soaked caverns are teeming with pelagic nightmares - they must be flushed out!
Category:
Starting an expedition to kill a boss
Sub-category:
Entering the Coves

These salt-soaked caverns...

Quote: The Swine draw power from their horrid markings and crude idols - tear them down!
Category:
Starting an expedition to kill a boss
Sub-category:
Entering the Warrens

The Swine draw...

Quote: A devil walks these halls... only the mad or the desperate go in search of him.
Category:
Starting an expedition to kill a boss
Sub-category:
Entering the Ruins

A devil walks...

Quote: Under the blood moon, I lured my wide-eyed prey to the pier’s edge. Before she could properly appreciate her position, I clamped on a manacle, chaining her to the leering idol. A small push was sufficient to send both into the icy waters. And when at length the tide receded, jewels of the most magnificent grandeur lay scattered upon the shore.
Category:
Starting an expedition to kill a boss
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Under the blood...

Quote: Excise the fungal tumors and the land may yet live.
Category:
Starting an expedition to kill a boss
Sub-category:
Entering the Weald

Excise the fungal...

Mastery over life...

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