It is the nature of all persons to hold on to power when they have it, Shulivar said. Thus it stagnates and becomes clouded, poisonous. Radical action is necessary to free it.


Chapter 32, "Shulivar, Bralchenar, and Narchanezhen" (pp. 446-447) - The Goblin Emperor (2014)

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It is the nature of all persons to hold on to power when they have it, Shulivar said. Thus it stagnates and becomes clouded, poisonous. Radical...

It is the nature of all persons to hold on to power when they have it, Shulivar said. Thus it stagnates and becomes clouded, poisonous. Radical...

It is the nature of all persons to hold on to power when they have it, Shulivar said. Thus it stagnates and becomes clouded, poisonous. Radical...

It is the nature of all persons to hold on to power when they have it, Shulivar said. Thus it stagnates and becomes clouded, poisonous. Radical...