Would I choose to live forever? To some among the Tauri it may seem I already have, even though I am young compared to many among the races ( Read more... )

I regret many things that I have done in my years; I regret things I have not done. I regret those I have not been able to save, those I've led into danger, those who have died before they were meant ( Read more... )

I have faced the end of the world many times. Sometimes on the side of the destroyer, others, on the side of the victims. In each case it is the same: I do what I must to ensure the greatest number survive whatever catastrophe has befallen them ( Read more... )

If I am not offworld, my day is spent in meditation and training. Both for myself and those younger Jaffa that I am guiding ( Read more... )

Gathering all the Jaffa -- no longer separated by the terms "rebel" and "loyal" -- around a celebratory bonfire and feast and toasting a life of freedom, a life without the gou'ald.

While it is admirable to want to improve yourself, one should never try to recreate oneself into the exact likeness of another. To do so shows disrespect for the uniquess of that individual and that of yourself ( Read more... )

The gouald are evil. They enslave, kill, conquer, because they believe themselves superior. That others are worthless, meaningless. There is but one among them who has shown he knows the meaning of the word "compassion".

Good is many things but above all it is a purity of spirit, of placing others before personal gain.

I have been shown these moving pictures of the Tauri. Why anyone would choose to make such a thing of my life, I do not comprehend. I am simply a man doing what must be done ( Read more... )

When my people are freed, they will, of necessity, need to develop a new form of rule. This will be their choice, and one they will need to contemplate seriously ( Read more... )

For me, there is but only one place: Chulak.

And but one way I could live there: As a free man, no longer a slave to any false god.

I cannot do this until all Jaffa are free, until Chulak is a free world.