"My name is Vokes, <AvatarName>. As big as a mountain, as strong as an ox, as fierce as... well, more fierce than anything thou hast ever fought!"

"Job! I am not in the habit of plowing fields or peddling vegetables, <AvatarName>! I earn my gold with this sword arm," he says as he flexes a mighty bicep. "Right now I am in Jhelom continuing my studies in my trade with De Snel, and when I am finished my price is going to go up!"

"I was born here! Is it not magnificent?! Why, in any hour of any day thou canst get into a duel with anyone for no reason at all! Now that is what I call the benefits of civilization!"

"A responsibility, yes, even a necessity. The cost of being honorable is that one must defend one's honor. There is no telling just where or when the next stain on one's honor may appear. Like this Sprellic fool, for instance. The perfect example!"*

"I'll make a stain on his honor, that's for sure. A blood red one!"*

"The bloody idiot had no idea that when he took our honor flag he would be seen doing it. Hence, he never considered the fact that he would have to fight a duel over our sullied honor. But now that the whole town is talking of the incident there is no way that we could refrain from standing up for ourselves. Especially since he has refused to return what he has taken from us."*

"Were he not such a cad, he would see the foolishness of his actions. 'Tis now up to us to show him!"*

"If he had not returned the honor flag to us we would have had to kill him dead as sure as I am standing here."

"There is a widely known and long-standing tradition concerning the honor flag of the Library of Scars. It is said that taking the flag from the wall is a signal meaning that the person who takes the flag can beat anyone who studies at the school in a fight. It is also a grossly insulting way of saying that thou dost think the method of fighting a school teaches is inferior, which the Library of Scars most certainly is not!"

"I have heard that rot about it all being a misunderstanding. The only thing misunderstood is how bad Sprellic will look when we finish with him!"

"The Library of Scars teaches the supreme fighting style! One that enables thee to get the advantage against thine opponents and soundly defeat them through the brilliantly conceived subterfuge of Master De Snel!"

"He is a genius. Perhaps the greatest military mind that ever lived. He told us so!"

"If I am not killed and thou art not killed perhaps we may raise a glass together some day!" END