"The days before the war were filled with strange portents: scouts and herders spoke of villages reduced to ash, of farmers taken from their fields, and of foul beasts roaming the plains in packs. I know, for I spoke to them all."
—Hakim, Loreweaver

"Amazing thing, gravity. It seems to work every time."
—Telim'Tor

Even the most conservative generals revised their tactics after the Battle of Sarinth, during which a handful of peasant-pikemen held off a trio of rampaging craw wurms.

"Consider the wave: how weak the mother yet how strong the child."
—Tywanna, Shaper Guildmage