"Athena saw this future: this godless world where Greece is fallen into poverty and the city that bears her name is flooded with the world’s detritus. And weeping in her turn she prepared against this day. She made a magic room where time does not flow and where the great Universal Solvent can be created by one of the wise, that Alkahest which can loose any prisoner, unshackle the mind of man. Wisdom is the tip of her spear, and with it she slays the serpent of lies."