Lisha Yael'Ma Quotes

"For The War Without End"

From out the Iron Woods
"We have spent too long in this place. Some of us years, some even over a decade. But 1 minute in this prison is too long. Tomorrow we enact our plan, and it is a good plan. However we may die. We will die if we stand apart, alone and pitiful. If we are to succeed we must do so together, united against our common foe. But even if success finds us the road afterwards will be difficult. We will be hunted, dogged at every turn by the Imperium we have all forsworn. So I propose a pact; an oath to stand together, to forge a new galaxy for ourselves away from this hellish rock and the Imperial hounds that will follow. We will make a Covenant bound in Blood. Will you stand with me and be my brothers?"

- To the first founders of the Covenant on the night of its formation

The Scouring of Malfi
"Men, you may know me by now. At the least you know for whom you fight: you wear our sigil upon your breast, and you will carry our name into battle. But I do not come before you as a commander, for I have neither earned your respect nor your loyalty. Nor do I come as a politician, encouraging you with honeyed words and bold faced lies, but I come as a fellow soldier. That is all I am in truth. I was born to soldiers, raised by soldiers; trained, educated, moulded to be a soldier. War is all I know, and it is what we will make today. The Malfian nobles tore you asunder, cast you out, forcing to fight across the stars to regain some semblance of your honour. They exiled you, revoked your lands and holdings, your titles and privileges. They disrespected your families and decried your accomplishments, leaving you lords in nought but name. Today you have said hell to the exile and spat in their faces. You put boot to ground and now we will put hand to throat, to wring the life from their bodies as they had wrung the soul from yours. We will set Malfi ablaze, and restore the honour its nobility has tarnished. We will take this hive, level by level, street by street, block by bloody block until the banner of the Covenant hangs from the spire and your vengeance is slated. Fellow soldiers, warriors of Blood, I do not command you, but I implore you now: stand astride the battlements with me today, reclaim your homeland by the blood of its oppressors, fight like the men you are until your last breath leaves or you stand victorious over the corpses of your enemies. Follow me atop the walls, and reforge your broken selves in the crucible of war."

- Addressing the Shattered Lords before the beginning of a Hive Assault on Malfi