King Constantine Ix Of Regia

Long Ago I Yearned To Be A Hero Without Knowing, In Truth, What A Hero Was. Now, Perhaps, I Understand It A Little Better. A Grower Of Turnips Or A Shaper Of Clay, A Commot Farmer Or A King--every Man Is A Hero If He Strives More For Others Than For Himself Alone. Once You Told Me That The Seeking Counts More Than The Finding. So, Too, Must The Striving Count More Than The Gain.

And Thus Did An Assistant Pig-keeper Become High King Of Prydain.

This Much Have I Learned: A Man's Life Weighs More Than Glory, And A Price Paid In Blood Is A Heavy Reckoning.

Trust Your Luck, Taran Wanderer. But Don't Forget To Put Out Your Nets!

The Dear Girl, I Fear, May Be Contemplating Some Alarming, Disruptive Perhaps Dangerous Project. In Which Case, I Would Naturally Do All In My Power To Keep Her From Any Such Rash Or Foolhardy Enterprise – Unless She Wished Me To Accompany Her.