List of Shuro Chi quotes

Shuro Chi Quotes

Spine of Keres

Spine of Keres, Flowers

• That's pink asphodelia. Plain, but pretty. We used to grow asphodelia to mark births and deaths. It's taboo to pick the flowers for any other reason.
• Many Reefborn Awoken experience prophetic dreams. They vary, but often feature the same symbols - roiling oceans, or starless skies, or, commonly, flowers...
• Legend has it that these asphodelia were originally cultivated from red flowers in the Black Garden. You can see they've lost their vivid color.
• When I was Taken, my thoughts were not my own. It was as though I had been exiled from my own body. But there were moments of clarity when I could see something, or smell it... like these flowers.

Spine of Keres, Meditation Circle

• When I was learning to be a Techeun, I often meditated here. I'd like to tell you it was a transcendent experience, but… most of the time I was bored to tears. Ha! I was so young!
• Young techeuns in training used to come to this platform to meditate. Now, just three of us remain and we will train no more - by decree of the Queen.
• Generations of techeuns have stood where you stand now, dreaming of a future where they might twin themselves to their own Harbinger.
• This was once a training ground for Techeuns... Hmm, do you know Petra Venj was once meant to join our order? She denied the call. It's just as well, I suppose.

Spine of Keres, Star Map

• That map is not just decoration. It is a kind of prediction. The Awoken will meet their final fate somewhere in those stars and planets, wherever they may be.
• Before the Queen left, she conjured the map you see there. I do not know what it represents or where it is - but I trust it is important to our future as a people.
• When you know your future, you must make yourself ready to meet it. This map is not so much a signpost as it is a promise.
• The Awoken were wayfarers. We walked between worlds; we charted the stars. It's for this reason I know Queen Mara respected Oryx. He was a beast - but a navigator, too.

Spine of Keres, Wall

• We Techeuns wear gems to augment our innate powers. The variety of mineral varies by personal preference and by task. Amethyst, in particular, is good for communing with the Ancients.
• We used to give carved amethyst as political gifts to the Eliksni - back in the old days, before the Wolves rose up. The Archons, especially, prized our amethyst for its beauty.
• The Awoken once had a space station we called Amethyst in honor of the gems we use to channel our magic. The station fell at the start of the Reef Wars. Petra still mourns those we lost.
• Amethyst is a symbol of royalty and power among the Awoken. As a mineral, it is nothing more than simple quartz, but it has been irrevocably transformed - much like us.