“We were an inventive people, I suppose. Down there, in our cities, in our ruins, you will find horrors we created beyond your comprehension.”
-Gyran, Triskelion, when pressed on the ‘lost secrets of the Smoke Elves’
When asked why people give to beggars but not to philosophers, he replied, 'Because they expect they may become lame and blind, but never that they will become philosophers.'
-Diogenes Laërtius
“The Shrouded Age was the one that followed Calamity, that which laid low to the ancient human and elven kingdoms of the Crystal Age, and which darkened the sun for decades afterwards. In those times of darkness, terrible things roamed the world, away from sunlight.”