''You want to know why we have that big old granite statute of a catfish? Why son, that's old Kugamu. Everytime folks around here be wanting to get a good catch from the lake, we grab some maggots, pig shit and old beef gone bad. Then we mash it up all together and toss it into the lake for him to eat. He's partial to that, is old Kugamu. Bless his heart, he's never let us down even once''.

30 entertainers to make even the miserable forget their troubles and be happy again, if only for a short time before their sorrows close in again.

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

Bloody-Beard Borsht

"What was i supposed to do it was just lying their!"

"Honest"

"Go see Marcus Blackeye. He knows what to do."

The "inside man" for a group of brigands.

It's amazing what a huge amount of strain can do to somebody, what it can cause them to become.

"Looking for something?, a nice little suprise for the wife?; No. Or perhaps you are looking for that which you cannot buy on the open market.. Yes.. well whatever it is, we no doubt have it."

She sat down and chatted with the young man until the leeches began to just fall off her legs - satiated with blood. The young man, enthralled and disgusted by what he just saw, thanked her and went on his way.

Who said Medusa are evil?

The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.

Lithe as a willow and just as flexible

The Wise Woman of a small family of the giant hill people known as the Volgotoi, Korara's particular gifts of illusion have allowed her a surprising degree of influence over the local Imperial outpost, helping spare her people the ravages of 'civilization'.

Even the Thoron may thirst for knowledge, and Embraced-A-Star has chosen the most direct route it can find to new discoveries. It chooses to go where no other creature can.

They go together like a horse and carriage.
This I tell you brother, You can't have one without the other.

'I wish ‘ere were some way a bloke could pick up business in dis dreary ol town…Oh wait!

"Let death be not only merciful, but elegant."

We all go a little mad...sometimes

Frozen to death by a penny pinching, cruel landlord, the Frozen Woman has found her vengeance against her killer, and now seeks to destroy those who might do unto others what was done unto her.

"Why's she want the rings? Heh, ye ain't the first ta ask. Well, why's the wind blow? Why's the shark bite? Trust me, lad, you don' want ta question her nature, jus' as ye wouldn' question mother nature. I say she's lookin fer somethin' - gods save me when she finds it."
- Ben "The Biter" Yardrin, sailor