[Shelpies]

"You were the challenge set to the world."
"Death Incarnate."

"Much like my mother, yet one who took it upon himself to carve a path through the world, for its sake."
"I could never understand you."
"Even now, I cannot."

"Yours is a wisdom that is best left for those that would cultivate the world."
"I simply do what I want."

"You sought to bring about a change to all."
"Lord of Change."

"I recall vividly the deals that we've had. The words you have brought forth even as I was betrayed."
"I recall our projects together,"
"The gloves that I have forged with your help."

"And your true form that the world never got to see."

"Yours is purpose that seeks to shatter the mold of stagnation. And you have done it."
"I simply do what I want."

"You have conquered all, united all, brought your will forth."
"Emperor of Meranthe, Emperor of Cinders."

"Our first battle was done out of gratitude and duty. Before, I never viewed you as an enemy."
"You are my mother's closest friend. And you have helped me in my search for my father."
"Yet it was our second battle that had brought out my childish rage,"
"Rage at your serenity, rage at your tranquility."

"I had thought: how could one mere mortal grow so fast?"

"Yet you were no mortal."

"I have taken your knowledge, glutted from your experience; now I am a blacksmith with your secrets,"
"Your skills, your level of molding metal."
"Even now, I hear it, the ringing of hammer against steel, your stalwart, silent form as you turned mere metal into divine constructs."

"Our third battle was both a farewell and a match."
"Once you have stated that were you born in my era,"
"You would have stolen me from her and made me your rival."

"You foolish old man,"

"Sleep. Rest. Slumber."
"For when you awaken, you will gaze upon your rival anew."

"If I have to kill my way to where the gods are, I will do so."
"The world believes that you have beaten me twice, and I have beaten you once."

"But the truth is, I have beaten you twice, and you have beaten me twice."
"We have a score to settle."

"Wait for me."

"..."

"It is lonely at the top."
"It is lonely as Death itself."

"I watch as those that are entertaining, those that have strong wills, those that bring me much joy, those that bring me what I truly live for:"
"Revelry."
"Die before me."

"No matter,"
"My magic is not only used in combat."

"I shall do as my magic does, I shall absorb all that composed you three."
"And take what the three of you had."

"Memento mori -- remember death."
"And I shall remember your deaths."