“Strike Hot Iron And Call Forth Sparks Strike A Man…

“Strike Hot Iron And Call Forth Sparks
Strike A Man And Call Forth Fury
To Shape Man Or Metal To Thy Will
Thou Must Strike With Force” -Collected Sermons of Karras

Thief II: The Metal Age, Miscellaneous Quotes

Other Thief Quotes

Inside at last. - View Quote Details on Inside at last.
“The essence of balance is detachment. To embrace a cause, to grow fond or spiteful, is to lose one’s balance, after which, no action can be trusted. Our burden is not for the dependent of spirit.” -Mayar, Third Keeper - View Quote Details on “The essence of balance is detachment. To embrace a cause,…
“Thief is the single most terrifying, immersive, and rewarding game I have played and the one single-player game I continue to replay. In addition to the overriding stealth gamestyle, it is loaded with unique elements that hold one in the world. I love the setting, a medieval tech fantasy world that owes less to D&D than to such literary lights as Fritz Leiber, Jack Vance and Michael Shea. It has a spare, but well-crafted storyline, eccentric NPCs, brilliant verse, and unparalleled sound design. Then there are the enormous, intricate levels: Sprawling towns (both populated and ruinous), haunted crypts, bizarre mansions, lost cities, and the finest subterranean sequences in any game the climactic level being a surreal descent that convinced me I had scrambled many miles towards the earth’s core. There are countless books I wish I had written; Thief is one of the few games I wish I had worked on.” - Marc Laidlaw, Valve (writer/designer: Half-Life) - View Quote Details on “Thief is the single most terrifying, immersive, and rewarding game…
“New boots. It’s gonna take me a week to break-in the cursed things. And until then… I’ll be walking like someone’s grandmum.” - City Watch - View Quote Details on “New boots. It’s gonna take me a week to break-in…
“In the beginning we lived as thieves, Stealing fur and fang of beasts for survival. Then came the Builder who brought us the Hammer, And with it we forged a new way of life. To reject the Hammer is to denounce the Builder.” -The Hammer Book of Tenets - View Quote Details on “In the beginning we lived as thieves, Stealing fur and…
I’d rather not tread where the dead sleep. - View Quote Details on I’d rather not tread where the dead sleep.
“Builds your roofs of dead wood. Builds your walls of dead stone. Builds your dreams of dead thoughts. Comes crying laughing singing back to life, takes what you steal, and pulls the skins from your dead bones shrieking.” -Clay tablet in an abandoned Trickster temple - View Quote Details on “Builds your roofs of dead wood. Builds your walls of…
Bafford, like most of his kind, probably keeps his treasures on the top floor of the place. Close to his heart…and far from his servants. - View Quote Details on Bafford, like most of his kind, probably keeps his treasures…
This situation does have one advantage… things can’t get any worse. Who could hire someone like the sheriff to kill me? - View Quote Details on This situation does have one advantage… things can’t get any…
“I’ll be home soon, drinking good dark ale, nibbling on a nice leg of mutton, forgetting about this place….” - Guard - View Quote Details on “I’ll be home soon, drinking good dark ale, nibbling on…