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Dargoth Posted - 21 Oct 2005 : 05:40:45
10 Real world Quotes and Maxims, paraphrased or ascribed to Faerunian people and groups

Kill them all and let Kelemvor sort them out

Kill one man and you’re a murder, kill 100 men and your hero, kill 10,000 and you’re the Chosen of Bhaal

It’s like trying to find an honest cleric of Cyric

War is the continuation of Diplomacy by other means, and alot more enjoyable!
Follower of Tempus.

That Paladin of Tyr has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire!
Unknown adventurer

Fear Leads Anger
Anger leads to hate
Hate leads to power!

Maxim of the Church of Bane

Remember when you look into the Abyss something may reach out and pull you in.

Death is not the worst than can happen to men

Cleric of Kelemvor

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil

Cleric of Cyric

Information, the first principle of warfare must form the foundation of all your effort. Know of course thine enemy but in him do not forget above all to know thyself. The Leader who embraces this shall be favored by the Lady of strategy and shall know victory.

Dogma of the Red knight


Feel free to add your own
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Dargoth Posted - 25 Oct 2005 : 00:33:41
War never solves anything
Maxim of Eldaths Clergy

Really? Perhaps you should take that arguement up with the founding fathers of Narfell and Raumathar.
Follower of Tempus response to the above

I want to see the enemies blood! I want to bathe in their blood! I WANT TO BATHE IN THEIR BLOOD FOR A WEEK!
Battle cry of a Cleric of Gargos

If you know where I got the 2nd and third ones from then you can have a cookie
Erik Scott de Bie Posted - 24 Oct 2005 : 23:35:02
quote:
Originally posted by Wooly Rupert

I'm wanting to say it was Once Upon A Time in Mexico, or something like that...



And you're wanting to be right.
Wooly Rupert Posted - 24 Oct 2005 : 23:25:53
I'm wanting to say it was Once Upon A Time in Mexico, or something like that...
Erik Scott de Bie Posted - 24 Oct 2005 : 23:19:29
Not sure this is QUITE right, but these are some Realms-equivalents of lines from one of the funniest movies ever made (anyone who can identify it gets a gold star). The last two are from me, the first from Malarick over at Worlds:

"Faerun's my beat, and I'm Walking it."

or

"You really must try this platter o' orc. It's a slow-roasted Orc, nothing fancy. It just happens to be my favorite, and I order it with a crappy mead in every dive I go to in this country. And honestly, that is the best it's ever been anywhere. In fact, it's too good. It's so good that when I'm finished, I'll pay my gold pieces, walk straight into the kitchen and stab the cook. Because that's what I do. I restore the balance to this country."


Here's a dialogue between the Lord of the Shadovar and one of his minions:

"I told you to slay all of the Chosen!"
"But my Lord. . ."
"Are you a ArCANist, or a ArCAN'Tist?"


And, about Elminster:

"What's yon old man called?"
"We call him 'El,' as in 'THE.'"
[Sigh.] "I know what it means."

Cheers
Thelonius Posted - 22 Oct 2005 : 18:35:09
"More knows Szass Tam for ancient than for liche."

"There are no news, as bad news."

- That's what the people could think an Arpistwould say cause their habit of always being where they shouldn't.

"The good if short, twice good"

- Another halfling motto, I love those little guys.

Wooly Rupert Posted - 22 Oct 2005 : 18:27:19
quote:
Originally posted by Talanfir Swiftfeet

What do you call a hundred orcs tied together in the bottom of the ocean? - A good start.
Dwarven joke. (I just changed things from a real world joke)



You know, I'd expect that a lot of real-world jokes, based on ethnicities or nationalities, have Realms equivalents...

"So a Dalesman, a Sembian, and a Zhent walk into a tavern..."

"How many Waterdhavians does it take to light a lantern?"

"This Helmite priest meets a Sunite priest, and says to her... "

And so on...
Talanfir Swiftfeet Posted - 22 Oct 2005 : 17:27:31
What do you call a hundred orcs tied together in the bottom of the ocean? - A good start.
Dwarven joke. (I just changed things from a real world joke)
Thelonius Posted - 22 Oct 2005 : 16:56:14
Don't judge someone for the size of his "weapon"

- Halfling motto

The difference between the madness and the genius, is only the success

- Another cleric of Cyric

(Is soo easy to make Cyrics mottos)
Crennen FaerieBane Posted - 22 Oct 2005 : 16:10:49
What? Were ya born in a barn?

-Neverwinter Noble to a trader from the Ten-Towns.

C-Fb
Wooly Rupert Posted - 21 Oct 2005 : 23:02:24
One of my favorite Realms quotes:

Worship the gods, listen to their advice, but don’t lend them money.
-- Hu Sen
Thysl Posted - 21 Oct 2005 : 20:32:36
Good ones Xymsa!

Watch the strong and resilient oak. See it succumb to the wind, the cold, the bough-breaking snowfall. Now watch the sapling pine. See it bend in the wind, endure the cold, take refuge in the snow. Now learn to be as the sapling pine; unbreakable through humility.
--Maxim of the Yellow Rose Monostary

I can read the runes on the wall.
Idiom denoting foresight

Know now young knight, afor ye raise that steel: those that live by the sword shall surely parish by it.
--From the tragedy Opander, Knight-Marshall Ulthan to the title character

I know not which way the wind blows, yet I go.
Shaundakulin declaration of faith
Xysma Posted - 21 Oct 2005 : 19:33:24
Good idea Dargoth, I got so into it, I did 10 more

The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.
- Church of Cyric

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.
-Church of Cyric

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power in man,
the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born
of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing,
that resistance is overcome.
- Priest of Bane

You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand
and showing it to them!
- Church of Bane

The ability to see beauty is the beginning of our moral sensibility.
What we believe is beautiful we will not wantonly destroy.
- Church of Sune

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
- follower of Sune

You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.
- follower of Ilmater

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is.
Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can,
and keep moving.
- War-Priest of Tempus

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather
than the victim.
- Priest of Mask

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good
men do nothing.
-Harper saying
Thysl Posted - 21 Oct 2005 : 19:28:56
Here's an actual Realm's qoute (from El in M.D.)

A true mage acts as if they knew nothing of magic, if they live long enough they realize it wasn't acting.

Young dwarves think old dwarves to be fools, old dwarves KNOW young dwarves to be fools.

In this realm nothing is certain but orcs and cold days.
Anonymous Halfling adventurer, concerning the Silver Marches

Brains without brawn is like silver, still in the mine.
Dwarven saying

Trading costers are more dangerous than a standing army.
Anon. Dalelander

Music hath charms to soothe a savage beast, To soften stones, to bend the knotted oak.
Thysl, bard of Mistledale
KnightErrantJR Posted - 21 Oct 2005 : 18:24:19
Or of course there is this one:

"Its all fun and games until someone looses an eye . . . or two . . . then its war,"

--Xulla the Beholder
Bakra Posted - 21 Oct 2005 : 18:18:27
This is a good idea, now it is time for my two coppers:

With great power comes great responsibility.
--spoken to Elminster

It is all fun and games, until someone looses an eye.
Then it is just fun!
--a cleric of Loviator
Mystery_Man Posted - 21 Oct 2005 : 18:17:32
An Cormyran is a man who does things because they have been done before. An Dalesman is a man who does things because they haven't been done before.
- Dalesmen saying
Crennen FaerieBane Posted - 21 Oct 2005 : 14:29:22
Where the heck are the Chosen when you need them?

-Exasperated Human

C-Fb
Chosen of Moradin Posted - 21 Oct 2005 : 11:50:29
hehehehe!

This are good ones...

Good idea, Dargoth!
Thysl Posted - 21 Oct 2005 : 06:13:49
Love that last one D.
Here I go:

Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
Elven Maxim

There is no knowledge that is not power.
Church of Oghma

Death is the same for the weak and for the strong, for the poor and for the rich.
From the scipture of Kelemvor

Full night blooms before the light.
Human maxim

The worth of a man is not in what he has acquired, but in what he longs to acquire.
--At the Feet of Waukeen, an Acolyte's Story

Courage is not always the Paladin's charge, oft'times tis a small voice promising: "I'll try again in the morrow".
Common saying amongst Dalelands woman

Humility makes boys of strong men.
Banite maxim

Moderation is for monks.
The Collected Saying of L. Long

Couldn't help that last one...
Thysl in Silver
Dargoth Posted - 21 Oct 2005 : 06:02:03
quote:
Originally posted by Kajehase

"Make love, not war."

Various followers of Sune and Sharess



A Cleric of Gargos would probably be inclined to say that you could do both
Kajehase Posted - 21 Oct 2005 : 05:47:12
"Make love, not war."

Various followers of Sune and Sharess

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