"You recognise the pattern, do you not, brother? The similarities? Ah - not with the princess from the moon, Gabriel. One of their number calls her to memory, but as a whole? You survey all means by which information might be convey; you remember the alien craze in the early days of the previous century. The invader, humanlike in form but inhuman in thought and manner. Similar, but just different enough to unsettle. Like a twisted brother...aye. We know well what gazing upon such visages might cause.

Look at them, Gabriel: bodies white as corpses, white as bone that has been stripped of flesh by carrion birds, but hearts blacker than most. But even this appearance, it does not evoke life, wouldn't you say? It evokes death, pale corpses, or mannequins. Uncanny. Close enough to human, in body and spirit alike, that the rest of their being repulses. They seed worlds with monsters and drain them of life, they seek godhood...sounds familiar, no?"

-on the Otsutsuki Clan;

"This princess did not come from the moon, brother, but from beyond the stars. She did not return of her own accord, but had to be sealed to be parted from the world she craved for herself. You saw what she planned, Gabriel. You saw how little mercy she had for that world's people, even for the spirits of her descendants - or for the fact her grandsons' echoes had been reborn with new bodies, new minds. Sealed once by the flesh of her flesh, once by her distant heirs...we wonder, what would her husband have said?"

-on Kaguya Otsutsuki;

"Do not think for a moment, brother, that what makes humans human depends on the manner of their body. He was a man in every way that matters, despite his alien flesh. Many Nephilim would be as proud of him as we are, we think. It was thanks to him that his mother was defeated for the first time, and the tenfold beast split into remains that would not leave the world a husk. And, in the end, he engineered his mother's second and last defeat, even from beyond the grave. He might not have brought peace about by himself, but that does not lessen his wisdom."

Stolen novel; please report.

-on the Sage of Six Paths;

"The seed of ruin, to grow into the tree of madness, the flower that blooms into death through delusion. How many planets, over how many millennia, must have fallen to this creature's ilk? It is an unthinking engine of destruction, a beast in the truest sense of the word. We are glad it is gone from the world."

-on the Juubi;

"It is a sad truth, brother, how qucik humans are to weaponise and twist, to despoil and lessen everything that can be turned into a tool of war. These nine wouldn't have become so beastly if they had been treated like people from the start; just look what such bonds of friendship have achieved, in the form of the eighth and ninth beasts' bearers. Alas...such was not the course of history."

-on the Bijuu;

"Does warfare become more less bloody, brother, if fought in a more organised manner? If fewer die? We think not. Michael has always thought not as well. A means to end the clashes between bloodlines, spare more children from death...and yet, even chaining living disasters to use as weapons did not deter people from bloodshed, in the end. It was only through the efforts of their world's greatest champions that peace and unity were achieved, and even then, the former was not eternal."

-on the Hidden Villages;