“When it comes to the most fierce of my kin, in their direst of moments they are capable of donning an aspect both beautiful and terrible. Take comfort in this: as much as this is the pinnacle of manmade martial arts and vatra sorcery both, only the most cunning in the arts of war are capable of but a fraction of its true power.”

– Au Vam, to his councilors (recorded pre Blue War by Mattin Vol Jas circa 1230 SC)