" It is far too easy to see you as a knot-browed barbarian, Toblakai. No, the drive to create is something other, isn't it? Have you an answer?' He shrugged. 'If one exists, it will only be found in the search – and searching is at creation's heart, Chosen One. "

― Steven Erikson , House of Chains (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #4)