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Quote #10
She chose immortality and the others followed her. And so the god scorched their souls to ash and scattered them in the wind. He dubbed them Druj. Demons. He breathed a mist into their memories and he plucked their children from their arms to grow old and die as humans, and he flung the Druj to the mountains where they could begin their immortality in landscapes of desolation that reflected the emptiness within them. (3.16.4)
Having immortality and magical powers seems like it's totally worth any price, but it turns out that the Druj end up with the short end of the stick. It's hard to find anything fun or novel when you're just going to live forever…