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David Eddings
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“Arums are real soldiers, and I want to hire them to train and advise the lowlanders to fight their own wars—at least this one.” “You’re asking me to put myself out of business, Althalus,” Albron objected. “Not really. After we’ve smashed Ghend’s armies, things should go back to normal. The princes of the low countries will still break out in rashes of ambition, and they’ll come here to Arum to hire professionals to do their fighting. It’s a matter of economics, Albron. It’s very expensive to train and maintain any army. Even when there’s no war, you have to keep feeding them. It’s cheaper in the long run to hire Arums.”
David Eddings (1931–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You don’t carry spears or bows?” “They’d just get in the way, sir. A sling doesn’t weigh hardly anything, and you can find good rocks anywhere.” “I thought the sling was just a child’s toy.” “Oh, no, Sergeant Khalor,” Althalus told him. “I carried a sling for years myself when I was younger. It kept me eating on a regular basis.” “Could a man kill a horse with one?” “Easily. The bone between a horse’s eyes isn’t very thick. I haven’t used a sling for a long time, but I’m fairly certain I could drop a horse in midstride from a hundred paces.” “That’s a little hard to swallow, Althalus." “I’ve taken rabbits at fifty paces — and a horse is quite a bit bigger than a rabbit.”
David Eddings (1931–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Queen of Night was in full voice when Althalus and the others reached the battlements on the eastern side of the city, and her catapults were hurling boulders at the walls of Mawor with a monotonous thudding sound. “I’m starting to get a bellyful of that,” Duke Nitral growled. “I spent a fortune on that marble sheathing on the outer wall, and she’s breaking it all to pieces with those accursed engines. Excuse me, gentlemen. I’m going to do something about that right now.” He went on down the parapet to a cluster of peculiar-looking engines. “What are those things?” Eliar asked curiously. “Nitral calls them arbalests,” Koleika replied. “They’re sort of an oversized bow. They’ll throw a spear for half a mile. Nitral and I’ve come up with a way to make life very interesting for those catapult crews out there.” Duke Nitral barked a sharp command to the men around the arbalests, and a sheet of spears trailing fire shot out in long arcs from the high walls of Mawor.”
David Eddings (1931–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What’s really going on in Perquaine?” “A peasant rebellion—at least on the surface.” Albron shook his head mournfully. “The lowlanders just don’t understand ordinary people, do they?” “They haven’t got a clue. The aristocrats spend so much time admiring themselves in their mirrors that they don’t pay much attention to the commoners. From what I’ve heard, these rebellions break out every ten years or so. You’d think that after five or six times, the aristocrats might start to realize that they’re doing something wrong.” “I certainly hope not. If the lowlanders start behaving like rational human beings, the clans of Arum are going to be out of work.”
David Eddings (1931–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Why must they always set fires?” Bheid asked Althalus as the two of them stood on the portico of the temple waiting and watching the columns of smoke rising from various quarters of the city. “I’m not really sure, Bheid,” Althalus confessed. “It might just be accidental. Looters are usually fairly excited, and sometimes they get careless. My best guess, though, is that the fires are being set deliberately to punish the noblemen for their bad habits.” “That’s pure stupidity, Althalus,” Bheid objected. “Of course it is. It’s the nature of mobs to be stupid. A mob’s only as clever as its stupidest member.”
David Eddings (1931–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source