The Spheres of Longing
The Spheres of Longing is a philosophical work by the noted Inquisitor Gideon Ravenor.[1] Although Ravenor served the Inquisition for several centuries, tracking down all manner of xenos and daemonic threats, his greatest fame after his death resulted from his writings.[2]
Even the great Space Marines are known to sometimes quote Ravenor,[3] as well as Colonel-Commissar Ibram Gaunt.
Known Passages
- "How may I ask the Emperor what he owes of me? When all I owe is to the Golden Throne and by duty I will repay." - Volume II[1]
- "A Mind Without Purpose Will Walk In Dark Places."[Needs Citation]
- "Chaos claims the unwary or the incomplete. A true man may flinch away its embrace, if he is stalwart, and he girds his soul with the armour of contempt."[4]
Sources
- 1: First and Only (Novel) - Gaunt's Ghosts: The Founding (Omnibus) by Dan Abnett, "A Memory: Ignatius Cardinal, Twenty-Nine Years Earlier", pgs. 88-89
- 2: Hereticus (Novel) by Dan Abnett, Epilogue
- 3: Helsreach (Novel) by Aaron Dembski-Bowden, Part Two, pg. 255
- 4: The Armour of Contempt (Novel) by Dan Abnett, [Needs Citation], pg. 3