" What we desire in our hearts, Arathan, and what must be … well, that is a rare embrace, so rare you’re likely to never know it. You have lived that truth. I have no promises to make you. I cannot say what awaits you, but you are now in your year and the time has come for you to make your life. "

― Steven Erikson , Forge of Darkness (The Kharkanas Trilogy, #1)