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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wilphe" data-source="post: 5543380" data-attributes="member: 8221">Some seek to die with sword in hand, whatever they achieve is not enough, each challenge an itch that cannot be scratched. They drive ever, on and on, seeking a death that never comes til one day it does, or maybe somethin worse.Me?I started with nothing but the harness on my back and a sword in my hand. Death for some minor warchief's quarrel was not for me. So I went to learn the ways of men, and their weakness too, and the power that comes from true law. I told my people too, showed them that discipline and order served them better than their habitual casual petty tyranny.I have carved an empire from the wilderness.I have waged war with success but never wantonly.I have made my people as great in peace as in warI have taken cities and slain princes by my own hand, where I have had toI have built cities where once there was nothing.I have counted the daughters of Kings amongst the lowest of my slaves, and I do not deny that I enjoyed it.My name shall live among the skalds and sages for evermoreAnd I die in my own bed, surronded by my loved ones and the trappings of sucess.That makes me the winner boy.</blockquote>