Keep your wits about you man, they are only bullets. Not like we have to brave the damned bird.

Col. Chapman at the Battle of Miner Hill

Kah-poong-ah
Ner-key-voot peeto-hung-i-tu-goot
Kigh-sa-geet
Kah-bloon-ah nowk?

In the bleak midwinter frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, Long ago.

Christina Rossetti
English poet (1830 - 1894)

Hammered from Stygian steel and inlaid with demonbone and bejeweled with demon jade and black diamonds, the blackest of blackguards are filled with lust and envy to possess this armor

A Totemos is a spirit or little god strongly associated with a human group, organization, or urban location.

A Restorative item for machines

It is the will of the King that a commision be formed to create a vehicle capable of bringing the firepower of a warship inland, without need of towage, transportation, protection. It must be self-reliant, able to withstand the rigours of battle. And it must be big.

An evaluation of the limited advancement of technology in standard genre fantasy.

30 ways to show off wealth

You can always recocognize a guardsman by his truncheon, tonburry hat, and pimple coat.

Stone peckers, foul-tempered beasts, better suited for cooking and mattresses than being allowed to breed

Anjet of Cenn Caerwaith

The forgotten realm

Fluffy headed plant things with an equally fluffy headed personality

A cunning and vicious predator, prized for it's pelt and feared for it's poisonous bite

Anjet of Cenn Caerwaith

An Elven made memory stone

Get to it, you mealy boned maggots! That stone isn't going to cut itself!

Bloody-Beard Borsht

I'm gonna be somebody, someday!

Umo Cinzento

There it was, big as two horses and all scales and wicked looking head. thought we was alldead, we did. Then the beastie did the damndest thing. Instead of breathin fire on us, or cursin us with magic it started eatin one of the damned bushes.

Explorer Kurold the Hammer

A rare and diseased jewel, a canker fallen from the heavens

'The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.'

Princess Leia, Star Wars - 1977