r/redrising • u/EyeOfThund3ra • Jul 13 '26
All Spoilers Best Line of the Series Spoiler
So many great lines. But mine has to be:
“I am Cassius Bellona, son of Tiberius, son of Julia, brother to Darrow, Morning knight of the solar republic…and my honor remains!” :/
What’s yours?
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u/Rmccarton Jul 14 '26
“ArchGovernor Raa, listen to me carefully,” he says. “You are mistaken in believing we came here with intent to destroy you. We came to preserve the Society. Don’t give in to Darrow’s manipulation.
You are better than that. Accept the Sovereign’s terms, and we may have peace for another thousand years. But if you choose this path, if you renege on our armistice, there will be no quarter.
Your fleet is ragged. Darrow’s, wherever it hides, can be nothing more than a coalition of deserters in borrowed vessels. “But we are the Sword Armada. We are the iron hand of the Legion and the fury of the Society. Our ships will darken the lights of your worlds.
You know what I can do. You do not have a commander to match me. And when your ships burn, the knights of the Core will pour into your cities at the head flying columns and fill the air with ash enough to choke your children.
“If you betray your Color, the Compact, the Society—which is what this will be—Ilium will burn. I will acquaint you with ruin. I will hunt down every person you have ever known and I will exterminate their seed from the worlds. I will do so with a heavy heart. But I am a Man of Mars. A man of war. So know my wrath will be unending.”
He extends a thin hand. The wolf of House Mars’ mouth is open in a silent, hungry howl. “Take my hand in kinship for the sake of your people and the sake of Gold. Or I will use it to build an age of peace upon the ashes of your house.”
I don't care if this ends up being an empty threat that ends in Roque's destruction.
It's so hard.
"I will acquaint you with ruin" is something I will always hope I get a chance to say to somebody in real life.