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Quotes by Karnak Mander-Azur (Earth-616)
You recall my lesson on the three worlds? This is no world. This is a universe before life. If you were religious, then you would consider your god to be the creator of the universe. What if your messiah was here to mend your god's mistakes? The savior of the universe would therefore come to uncreate it. Reduce it to a single shadow.
Friends. I must again leave you for a while, to engage the human world and secure our own future. While I am gone: consider the stone cairns on the ground floor of our Tower. Consider the stones as a visible manifestation of Blind Time. The stones cannot perceive us in any way. In a hundred generations of human life, they only grow more perfect. The stones matter more to the universe than you do. Even to a stone, you are nothing.
In time, all we rely on will shatter and fall. Inside the marble is the statue. Inside the statue is the rubble. Inside the rubble, the dust. Inchoate in all things are their broken states. The world is broken, Gorgon. I only force it to admit that.
Imagine a world in which I told you that you were a Zen Archer of ghost bullets -- and so, in that moment, you were, because you utterly believed it to be true. Would you not be persuaded that I am a god?
There is always death. That death matters is an illusion we create for ourselves. It does not matter.
The tone you heard was admiration, My Queen. So by all means -- let's go hire us a gun.
... I guess it's made me realize that my only real ability I possess is a destructive one.
Let me do something for a change! By Agon let me...
It is my discipline to be able to sense the weakest spot in any object -- And my power to shatter it.
Greetings. We are from Attilan. We are the Inhumans. We believe you have some property of ours.
If you want to save inhumanity, your majesty-- You must forget everything you think you know. You will ignore your instincts and forget the past. Otherwise, all is lost. It's too late for me, too late to unlearn a lifetime of thinking. A lifetime of error, my queen. I have failed you for the last time--
I once made a study of your art of cinema. Apparently one starts with the attention-grabbing scene before progressing the plot.
Where is the flaw?
I am Magister Karnak of the Tower of Wisdom. I teach. I take time and care to teach the people of this world one ultimate, vital truth. I teach them that they are nothing. And you change people with... a gesture? A thought? You grant fantastic powers to things that are nothing with a word. And why do you do it? Because. They. Want. It. You disgust me. You betray the very nature of the universe. You just can't give them something because they want it--
I am your magister, boy. And you have much to learn.
There is always death. That death matters is an illusion we create for ourselves. It does not matter.
I am your magister, boy. And you have much to learn.
You noticed. You looked. You thought. You focused on the details. The flaws. Despite your fear. Despite the cages the human world has carefully built around your thinking. You saw the details, and you remembered the details. Inside your vision, and outside. You used those details to try to save lives.
We do have a teleporting dog. Yes. But travel by Inhuman methods would require Inhuman involvement. And this journey... I take alone. Today I am neither an Inhuman, nor a S.H.I.E.L.D. consultant. I am Karnak. That is all.
You noticed. You looked. You thought. You focused on the details. The flaws. Despite your fear. Despite the cages the human world has carefully built around your thinking. You saw the details, and you remembered the details. Inside your vision, and outside. You used those details to try to save lives.
Mine is to understand weakness. And this I know... So long as the Inhuman family bond remains...we have no weakness.
It's not an outhouse.
A company isn't people, Ahura. It's money and things. I saved those. Everything that matters about Ennilux is now mine.
How terrible. Arriving home only to find your kingdom in pieces and your people dead... I can't imagine how that must feel.
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