Checking Inn, Cashing outEdit

T_innLoadingQuote0: "On the Last Day, there will be no words...and we will know the face of our
betrayer... - Excerpt from the Keeper Book of Days"
T_innLoadingQuote1: "There is nothing as promising as the opening of a book. There is nothing as final
as its shutting. - Keeper Scribe Lessons, Part 4"

T_innLoadingQuote2: "Imagine the City as a youth precariously balanced on the precipice of a deep
ravine. We are the Keepers of that balance. - from The Eight Principles"

End of the BloodlineEdit

T_castleLoadingQuote0: "Choose your immortality wisely, whether it be the treasure you amass, or the
family who succeed you. - Advice to a Patriarch, Baron Bresling"
T_castleLoadingQuote1: "Even to the casual observer, the seven great families have become neither
great, nor, by most standards...family. - from Historical Bloodlines"

T_castleLoadingQuote2: "Only the virtuous can withstand The Builder's Trial by Fire...the sinful are
consumed. - from a Hammerite Sermon"

T_castleLoadingQuote3: "Saids drinks of me, you wills not thirsts, Dids honeys sweet froms out Him
burst. - Pagan Drinking song, origin unknown"

T_castleLoadingQuote4: "From each of us, the Glyphs will desire a different aspect. This is the balance
we have struck. - Excerpt from The Interpreter's Codex, Vol 8"

St. Edgar's EveEdit

T_hammerintroLoadingQuote0: "A rod of iron, in the flame, is transfigured and is no more. Thou canst
never return unchanged from the forge. -Rite of ordination to MasterForger"
T_hammerintroLoadingQuote1: "If thou hast eyes to see the glory of the Builder, but do not, then pluck
them out. -Opening prayer, Ironwright Temple"

T_hammerintroLoadingQuote2: "Be ever diligent, For thine enemies are a multitude, And sin never
sleeps... - Excerpt from a Hammerite Hymn"

T_hammerintroLoadingQuote3: "The Hammer is the most blessed of all the Builder's works: ‘Tis both a
tool for building, and a weapon against thy foes. - The Hammer Book of Lessons"

T_hammerintroLoadingQuote4: "You shalt know thy enemies well, for they wield not the hammer, and
forest dwellers be they. - From The Book of the Master Builder"

Into the Pagan SanctuaryEdit

T_paganintroLoadingQuote0: "Manfools fleshes breaks and bleeds, And them Leafy Lord risers again... -
unattributable, etching in tree bark"
T_paganintroLoadingQuote1: "Bes him many-named, Him that's called the Woodsie One...The Leafy
Lord...the Harvester... - fragmentary text on parchment"

T_paganintroLoadingQuote2: "We bes eatsy of the goodfruit, Bes we drinker of the bloodroot, Bes we
singer at them moons. - Overheard ritual chanting"

T_paganintroLoadingQuote3: "To us Him bes the Trickster, sometimes the gillsweet, sometimes the bear,
but to them that carries a hammer He bes them worming death... – unknown"

T_paganintroLoadingQuote4: "Drinks them meads and bes merried, Before them Harvester comers for
you. - Pagan song, author unknown"

House of the Widow MoiraEdit

T_seasidemansionLoadingQuote0: "The struggles of the city mirror the ebb and flow of the great waters.
No tide must ever be allowed to advance unchecked... - from The Eight Principles"
T_seasidemansionLoadingQuote1: "Beware, for even the simple act of desiring to become...can corrupt
that which will be. - Excerpt from The Interpreter's Codex, Vol 8"

T_seasidemansionLoadingQuote2: "To act out of anger risks needless destruction, but to act out of
affection risks needless charity. - Guide of Balance"

T_seasidemansionLoadingQuote3: "History is written by the observer. Propaganda is written by the victor.

- Keeper Book of Truths"

T_seasidemansionLoadingQuote4: "Sing a song of daffodils, Gray Lady choose the one to kill, And you
are out! - Children's game, origin unknown"

The Sunken CitadelEdit

T_dungeonLoadingQuote0: "Him reachers downing to them abysses and pulls Him out them worming
ones. - Origin unknown"
T_dungeonLoadingQuote1: "In summer times do Beesie flew, maple pines and grackles coo, The
grassies sweet with nectars dew, til Harvest time when Him eat you. - Pagan chant"

T_dungeonLoadingQuote2: "I bes them honeysweet, I bes them breadmeat, Feeders you of me, til them
times that I feeders of you. - Cave etching"

T_dungeonLoadingQuote3: "Two clicks for the Fall of the Kurshok, banished to abyss. No more favored
by the Trickster Lord. No more see the sun or sky. - Kurshok Text"

T_dungeonLoadingQuote4: "One click for the brainsick ones...thinking the aboveworld is real place. -
Kurshok Text"

Killing TimeEdit
T_clocktowerLoadingQuote0: "All of the days in the full span of thy life, are but an hour of the Builder's
time. - Collected Sermons of MasterForger Keystone"
T_clocktowerLoadingQuote1: "Make thou a fortress of thy heart, for thy most valuable treasures art those
words given to thee by the Builder. - Words of the Sixth Forger"

T_clocktowerLoadingQuote2: "Once sin hath entered thy heart, thy life's work is at an end. - Precepts of
the Smith-in-Exile"

T_clocktowerLoadingQuote3: "Each moment of thy life hath a choice - accept the trial the Builder hath set
for thee, or lay down thy burden and die. - Words of the Sixth Forger"

Of Brethren... And BetrayersEdit

T_keepercompoundLoadingQuote0: "There are glyphs that can cause suffering and those that can end
it...and precious few who know the difference. - Excerpt from the Forbidden Transcripts"
T_keepercompoundLoadingQuote1: "Ambition will usurp balance...The treacheries of the ignorant...The
follies of the blind... - from Caduca's notes on the Prophecies"

T_keepercompoundLoadingQuote2: "Fellow Keepers, we undo ourselves, our very fabric unravels - and
as we fare, so fares the City... - Note left for the Keeper Council, author unknown"

T_keepercompoundLoadingQuote3: "Fed too much, the flame of knowledge will spread unchecked, to
consume and destroy. - Fourth Warning of the Scribarium"

T_keepercompoundLoadingQuote4: "We are none of us immune to the temptations of the Glyphs. To

think so would be the worst of follies. - From the Forbidden Transcripts"

Robbing the CradleEdit

T_hauntedhouseLoadingQuote0: "Then let this be our warning...that any man can be made monster...that
any woman can become loathsome... - From the resignation speech of Keeper Sondheim (Historical
Archives)"
T_hauntedhouseLoadingQuote1: "Beware the Trickster's Flame or the Fairy Spark; for they are ill
wrought. Only the Builder's Fire burns with righteousness. - The Book of Lessons"

T_hauntedhouseLoadingQuote2: "If it is to close your eyes that you seek, to become deaf to the truth, to
dismiss the obvious - then you have succeeded most thoroughly. –unknown"

T_hauntedhouseLoadingQuote3: "Who are we? Who have we become? I no longer have the courage to
answer. - Entry from the journal of Keeper Elan, two days before his disappearance."

T_hauntedhouseLoadingQuote4: "We played at a hiding game, when all at once the hag was upon us.
T'was naught I could do - frozen with fear. - Recollection of the Hammerite Inspector"

Still Life with BlackjackEdit

T_museumLoadingQuote0: "When the End of Words arrives, the fire will be driven from our hearts, and
the efforts of the ages will be laid waste by the Betrayer. - surviving text fragment, Keeper Archives"
T_museumLoadingQuote1: "The earliest writings on the glyphs are indeed cautionary...yet remarkably,
regrettably inadequate... - Final Journal Entry, Keeper Thackery"

T_museumLoadingQuote2: "What damage has been done, and worse, what more is to come? - Session
of the Keeper Council"

T_museumLoadingQuote3: "Holding a key, you may infer the existence of a lock. But do not make the
mistake of assuming that yours is the only key. - Handbook for Scribes"

T_museumLoadingQuote4: "The Artifacts are sometimes called Sentients, as they posses (sic) a will of
their own, and the ability to act upon their desires. - Keeper Annals"

South QuarterEdit
T_southquarterLoadingQuote0: "Fiddle-dee dum and fiddle-dee dee, The old gray lady is after me... -
children's rhyme, unknown origin"
T_southquarterLoadingQuote1: "The City increased quickly. The lack of planning evidences itself in the
closeness of the structures...the strange twist of a street... - Keeper Archives"

T_southquarterLoadingQuote2: "Makers a sipping poison of fangrot and meadowscull for them cityhead
fools to drinkers and weeps. - partial text recovered from abandoned Pagan camp"

T_southquarterLoadingQuote3: "A scribe must learn to control the Glyphs...lest they seek to control the
scribe. - from The Keeper Handbook for Scribes"

Garrett's BuildingEdit
T_southquarter1_intLoadingQuote0: "Fiddle-dee dum and fiddle-dee dee, The old gray lady is after me... -
children's rhyme, unknown origin"
T_southquarter1_intLoadingQuote1: "The City increased quickly. The lack of planning evidences itself in
the closeness of the structures...the strange twist of a street... - Keeper Archives"

T_southquarter1_intLoadingQuote2: "Makers a sipping poison of fangrot and meadowscull for them

cityhead fools to drinkers and weeps. - partial text recovered from abandoned Pagan camp"

T_southquarter1_intLoadingQuote3: "A scribe must learn to control the Glyphs...lest they seek to control
the scribe. - from The Keeper Handbook for Scribes"

Pavelock PrisonEdit
T_southquarter3LoadingQuote0: "A cell is only necessary if the prisoner in question can still walk. -
Warden Stout, Pavelock Prison"
T_southquarter3LoadingQuote1: "There will be no escapes. None. If a prisoner somehow does get away
- make sure they don't survive the return trip. - Warden Stout, Pavelock Prison"

StonemarketEdit
T_stonemarketLoadingQuote0: "Where doest thou wander, oh lady of the cinders? Upstairs and
downstairs, and in thy nightly chambers... - Children's Rhyme"
T_stonemarketLoadingQuote1: "Beware the Age of Darkness / Light shall become shadow / Time shall
become the enemy / Life shall become pain... - Excerpt from the Keeper Books of Prophecy"

T_stonemarketLoadingQuote2: "...only we know the secrets of the Glyphs...only we know the truth... -
Keeper Archives"

T_stonemarketLoadingQuote3: "Beware the minions of the Trickster, for they revel in chaos. Seek they to
undo thy works and subvert thy thoughts. - from the Sermon of St. Edgar"

Keeper LibraryEdit
T_stonemarket3LoadingQuote0: "Familiarizing yourself with his history and capabilities will prove
essential should the time come when we no longer deem him...necessary. - Keeper Draco"
T_stonemarket3LoadingQuote1: "The choice is not only between one action or another. To refrain from
action is always the third potential. - First Keeper Orland, Assembly Speech"

T_stonemarket3LoadingQuote2: "Imagine all that we have worked for...all we have created and all that
we know...wiped out in the blink of an eye... - from A Discourse on the Dark Ages"

T_stonemarket3LoadingQuote3: "That references to the thief occur so frequently in the prophecies should
be enough to warn you - to warn us all. - Council Meeting 128:LVIX, Section 40"

T_stonemarket3LoadingQuote4: "The incidents in the Scribarium are increasing...yet nothing is done. The
Scribes are our future. Or do we all intend to live forever? - Keeper Staub"

T_stonemarket3LoadingQuote5: "Of the clocktower, I will say only this: That the prophecies are speaking
to us...yet there is no one who will listen. - Keeper Artemus, journal entry"

T_stonemarket3LoadingQuote6: "The One will venture where none have tread...and the First shall follow
the Last. - Excerpt from the Keeper Books of Prophecy"

DocksEdit
T_docksLoadingQuote0: "Two giants, roused from slumber, two blades clashing. Each blames the
other...for what the Thief has done. - From Caduca's Notes on the Prophecies"
T_docksLoadingQuote1: "maker an offerings of manfoolsy fleshes - drinker a sippings of manfooled
bloods - Pagan harvest song, author unknown"

T_docksLoadingQuote2: "Set thy bricks with the bones of heathens, and mix thy mortar with their blood. -
Hammerite Book of Structure"

T_docksLoadingQuote3: "The Age of Darkness will be the child of two fathers...and their names are
Ignorance and Fear. - from the journal of Keeper Artemus"

T_docksLoadingQuote4: "As Keepers, it is our duty to remain apart - secret - invisible. To become part of
the City would exert influences. - From The Eight Principles (Amended)"

Abysmal GaleEdit
T_docks3LoadingQuote0: "Then we sent Reggie on board...and he didn't come back neither. - Witness
account, City Watch records"
T_docks3LoadingQuote1: "...ain't nobody coulda steered that ship to port...there ain't was nobody alive to
steer. - overheard at a tavern"

Old QuarterEdit
T_oldquarterLoadingQuote0: "May each Enforcer be remembered and scribed in the Book of the Names,
that we may never speak their names again. - Excerpt from an Induction Speech"
T_oldquarterLoadingQuote1: "Lay stone upon stone, pile foe upon foe, ‘til thy Builder's work is done. -
From the Builder's Prayer"

T_oldquarterLoadingQuote2: "Where are you, where are you, little Miss Ann? I'm in the pot boiling with
Seamus and Sam. - Children's Rhyme"

T_oldquarterLoadingQuote3: "A most promising acolyte, yes...but that was long ago. Now he is other...a
thief...and probably worse... - Letter to Keeper Orland, author unknown"

T_oldquarterLoadingQuote4: "Seek thou not blood from the stone, but only from thine enemies. And if
they bleedeth sap, then seek it doubly so. - The Book of the Stone"

Fort IronwoodEdit
T_oldquarter3LoadingQuote0: "After the plagues, the City needed the room afforded by moving the dead
underground. This is how the first catacombs came to be. - Historica, Vol. 29"
T_oldquarter3LoadingQuote1: "The undead are most abhorrent to us. Their flesh is putrid, and the mark
of the Trickster is upon them. - from the Mass of Saint Aaron"

T_oldquarter3LoadingQuote2: "Be without sin in life, for after death, the sinful doth walk without rest, ne'r
welcomed into the House of the Builder. - The Builder's Way"

AuldaleEdit
T_auldaleLoadingQuote0: "The First Keeper is merely a surrogate for the One True Keeper, whose
eventual arrival we await with dread. - From the Collected Essays of D'Aberon"
T_auldaleLoadingQuote1: "If the Artifacts were created for some purpose, then the pertinent texts must
be found before they too are...irrevocably misplaced. - Author Unknown"

T_auldaleLoadingQuote2: "...the skin hast been cleanly removed, as if by surgery or magics...'twas much
suffering, methinks... - From the notebook of Hammerite Inspector Drept"

T_auldaleLoadingQuote3: "...the thief in our midst...invited - but unwelcome...present always in the

prophecies...even when not in flesh... - Notes in book margin, author unknown"

T_auldaleLoadingQuote4: "No, it wasn't a woman...ain't no woman could do that. Rippin' at him. His skin
is gone...all gone... - Statement given to City Watch Official"

Gamall's LairEdit
T_auldale3LoadingQuote0: "If there is a betrayer within...then he will not appear as a villain...but as a
trusted friend...even a leader among us. - former First Keeper Xavier"
TDS IntroEdit
T_IntroQuote: "Cry, Brethren, for the Betrayer is Come. Your Hands will be Crippled, and you will Perish
as the Wretched Outcast in the Bleak Unwritten. And you will know the face of the Destroyer. - Recovered
text from The Prophecitus, missing for 132 years"
ExtraEdit
Quotes appearing in the TDS manual.
"...the dreaded One may be peasant or noble, may be old
or young, may be man or woman. We know what the
One will do...we know it all too well. But we still know
nothing about who the One is..."
-Excerpt from the Archival Keeper Council Transcripts: F.K. Modrian, Book VI, Chapter 3
"If it is to close your eyes that you seek, to
become deaf to the truth, to dismiss the obvious
-- then you have succeeded most thoroughly."
- Excerpt from a letter to the Keeper Council, author unknown

"Fiddle-dee dum and fiddle-dee dee

The old gray lady is after me
She wants my shoes and she wants my skin
There's none so small that she can't fit in."
- Children's rhyme, unknown origin

"If thou hast eyes to see the glory of the Builder, but
do not, then pluck them out.
If thou hast ears to hear the words of the Builder,
but do not, then strike them off.
- Opening prayer, Ironwright Temple

"maker an offerings of manfoolsy fleshes

drinker a sippings of manfooled bloods."
- Harvest song, author unknown

"...imagine all that we have worked

for...all we have created and all that we
know...wiped out in the blink of an eye..."
- From A Discourse on the Dark Ages: Keeper Falek III

"Him reachers downing to

them abysses
And pulls Him out them
worming ones."
- Origin unknown