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03/21/08(Fri)02:08 No. 1375611 Sadly, the best BBEG quote I heard I later discovered came from a vidya. In the DM's defense, it's awesome, and I'd use it too. "My reasons for returning are not what you would think. I have no aspirations for power or domination as so many do. No. Those are the motivations of the living, and I no longer place myself among them. If only I could show you the places I have seen, you might understand the things I say. I have been to the desolate lands, wandered by those souls who still see the lands of the living, yet wear the cloak of the dead. Blind to their own ends, they cry, passing through one another like shadows in the dying light of day. I have been to where souls rot in torment, pierced with the jagged shards of life and vision, clinging to memory - regrets of the flesh. I have seen that this prison was of their own making, and that the key was in unknowing, in release...and still, I travelled on. And finally, I came to the place where souls go to die. Where the weary and worn spirits fall into an endless sea of grey, mirrored glass. And I lowered myself within, and layed there among then, and I almost did not return. And do you know what I found there? There, among the silent and battered shells of the innumerable? Peace. Enlightenment. Truth. It was then that I realized that this place, this "Life", is an abomination, a horrible distortion of the natural order. This "Life", who mothered Pain, and Fear, and Envy - these twisted children who exist only because we are here to feed them, to nourish them. This "Life", this afterthought - a disturbance, a mere ripple in that great dead sea - not even a cause, but merely an effect, sending these souls upwards, screaming for release from the day they are torn from their waters! The effect of what?! I do not know, nor do I care."