" Tatrini could see why he’d caused so much trouble in his life. She believed that true beauty was essentually fueled by evil. Almorante had loved him, as had Bayard, in his peculiar way, and also Khaster Leckery. Now, it appeared, Valraven Palindrake had been visiting Tayven in captivity. Was this another lovelorn victim? If Bayard possessed half of Tayven’s essence, he would be an indomitable force, but that perhaps was not a desirable circumstance. "

― Storm Constantine , The Way of Light (The Chronicles of Magravandias, #3)