"That is your quest. I cannot say what you will eventually attain. Much is prepared for you; some you must perform. You are a turning of this war, Athenais Karthagonensis. I would have you raise the dead, but there are powers—pursuivants, judges and witnesses, authorities and smiths—who align against me. Indeed, they set me against what I now would most dearly win. They look in, and are dismayed. The ending of your quest is their undoing. Or mine."