.."The rolling sea is enough to cause a man with a cast iron stomach to puke. But from what I can see from my ship, this has been an excursion well worth the effort.."

"Alterio, you are an ass...sending me ahead, you must have known the weather would be treacherous and were likely afraid of mussing your hair.."

.."Reached shore today and the mapping has begun. The trip was worth it...what a beautiful place."

--Cartographer and Discoverer, Lord Axalon Carazzi

.."I've already lost four of the crew due to plague or other ailments. I fear I might have to order the rest to abandon ship. Alas, I do not have that option available to me, I am the Captain. The seas are unlike any other I've ridden on in my lifetime. Why, why at this time does life look so bleak..."

.."Man in the crow's nest is rotting before my eyes. We're out of food. But I heard the two most glorious words today. 'Land Ho.' It will not be long now..."

"...I'll be damned if my littlest brother wasn't right..this place does look as if an artist crafted it. So beautiful it's hardly real. Healers are seeing to the few left in my crew...and they'll be fine. Life can be good again."

--Captain Anthony Carazzi, log of the vessel Revenge

.."Do I wish to leave this place? The fires are spreading, I can smell the smoke...Torlin's helped me exhume Mirell and the baby, we've loaded them into a wagon on the caravan out, I can reinter them into ground that won't be destroyed..The floodwaters arise as well, you can smell the dampness. I see no other choice..."

"Well, THIS place sucks, so much for tourist traps"...*Note taken at the first port of call*..

"Now this...this Isle..I can definitely live with this. The only way I am leaving this isle is as a pile of ash scattered into the wind."

-- Sir Alterio Carazzi's observations on leaving the old world and arriving in the New.