Holds
On at least one continent, Lether, Warrens do not function due to the effects of a large-scale, long-lasting stasis cast over the continent by Gothos. Magic on the continent was arrested in its development, and retained the primitive yet powerful form of Holds, which are capable of great destruction, but lack the nuanced abilities and fine control of the Warrens found elsewhere on the planet.
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Famous quotes containing the word holds:
“A sleeping man holds in a circle around him the thread of the hours, the order of years and of worlds. He consults them instinctively upon awaking and in one second reads in them the point of the earth that he occupies, the time past until his arousal; but their ranks can be mingled or broken.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)
“He, that holds fast the golden mean,
And lives contentedly between
The little and the great,
Feels not the wants that pinch the poor,
Nor plagues that haunt the rich man’s door,
Imbitt’ring all his state.”
—Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (65–8)
“There have been,
Or I am much deceived, cuckolds ere now,
And many a man there is, even at this present,
Now, while I speak this, holds his wife by th’arm,
That little thinks she has been sluiced in’s absence,
And his pond fished by his next neighbor, by
Sir Smile, his neighbor.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)