Mineral Decay

"The medusae say I am blessed, I am incredible. They don't shiver through the night. Shaking. Needing food but unable to eat. I truly feel pathetic when I shit blood and then am told I am winning their war. I hate my magic." - Abaio, Lord of Amber   "Proper diet and lack of expenditure. One must be absolutely precise in ritual. One must have healers and chirugeons on site. One must not exert themselves. One must follow mother's advice."- Tiberius of the Astral Clocktower   "I'm hiding it well I think. No one has questioned the cane. The lack of food, just temperment. The gloves cover my deadened fingers. My muscles haven't atrophied. I haven't broken yet. I cast as I need. As the Empire needs." - Scion Aimee De'luminae   "No no, not me. Premier made sure. I gave them the designs. I'm finding.... other effects..... I need to go deeper in the past. I guess as the expert of time that is fitting." - Argave the Time Weaver   "Time is shattered. The dial broken by the fools who despised stillness. Winter is essential but heart won out. They brough death. They brought strife. To be born so wretched to only see this multiple places removed. The light so far. Time and time again I find traps in magic. Traps I circumvent yet to gain such paltry power I dance to rules and tunes of the unseen. It is pathetic. I am an Emperor but this makes me no better than a thief. I grasp and get scraps and scraps alone. This trap is cruel. The way of shadow also. I think the crueler the trap perhaps the closer to something that matters. I will order research into this and preserve my protections and cures of the disease for the future." - Lost writings of The Emperor of Glass.