A Practical Guide to Evil Novel Chapters
List of most recent chapters published for the A Practical Guide to Evil novel. A total of 628 chapters have been translated and the release date of the last chapter is Apr 02, 2024
Latest Release: Book 7 Chapter epl: Epilogue I
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- 201 “Casualties are a consequence of properly employed tactics, not the intent. To merely bludgeon away
- 202 “There are no reserves, you fool, only second waves!” – Isabella the Mad, only general to have ever
- 203 “You might say that they’ll never see me coming.” -Dread Empress Malevolent II, announcing the raisi
- 204 “In a finite world, one’s gain (victory, large cave) inevitably means loss (dead female, enemy grows
- 205 “Civilized men disapprove of murder, of course. Unless it involves banners and great numbers: then i
- 206 “So spoke His Dread Majesty in the wake of battle, even as the High Lords praised him: ‘Speak not fl
- 207 “And so my reign ends as it began, with fewer allies than stab wounds.” – Alleged last words of Drea
- 208 “When the abyss stares back, wave. Offer refreshments. Being impolite to the abyss is never a good i
- 209 “Spoken like a man I’ll have raised from the dead just to execute a second time.” – Dread Emperor M
- 210 “Fear is the mother of character. Without it we remain children until death.” -Queen Elizabeth Alban
- 211 “The meaning of the exercise of war is the destruction of your foe’s ability to wage it. ‘Victory’ d
- 212 “And so Dread Emperor Irritant addressed the heroes thus: Lo and behold, I fear not your burning Lig
- 213 “The final disappointment of heroism is to find that a just war was, in the end, just a war.” – The
- 214 “You can have the throne when I’m done with it, which will be never.” – Dread Emperor Revenant, init
- 215 “Peace is little more than the reognition that the reasons for which war was undertaken are no longe
- 216 “Seven battles I won on my feet, and lost the war sitting at a table.” – Periander Theodosian, Tyran
- 217 “To seek to ascertain the worth of even a single a soul through morality is to force unnecessary mys
- 218 “Proceran promises should be treated like stew: unless you know every ingredient, best not swallow.”
- 219 “Invading Callow is much like drunkenly playing dice: the odds are never as good as you believe, and
- 220 “A war fought and won for the wrong reasons, under the wrong cause, can be a greater threat to the P
- 221 “Red the flowers, red the crown Red this day of bleak renown How soon they forgot Eleanor Along ever
- 222 “Sing we of rage, In Tower and field Of this dying age That will not yield Sing we of steel, Forged
- 223 “The moon rose, midnight eye Serenaded by the owl’s cry In Hannoven the arrows fly Hold the wall, le
- 224 “Take no comfort in that, hero. For though dawn ever comes, night ever does precede it.” – Dread Emp
- 225 “The enemy of my enemy is second on the list.” – Dread Empress Vindictive III“Is it contained?”I did
- 226 “My dear Betrayer, I resent this accusation of selling you out to the heroes. No coin changed hands,
- 227 “If war is to be understood as the pursuit of statecraft through violence, then the Principate is a
- 228 “The existence of death is the first lie we are taught. There is little difference between a corpse
- 229 “An offer to ‘kneel or die’ would be insincere, Matrons. Deny me and your corpses will be made to kn
- 230 “Don’t be absurd, Black Knight. It would have been called treason if I’d lost – this is merely succe
- 231 “There is only one lesson to be learned from shatranj: no matter who wins the game, the pieces retur
- 232 “You’re a masterful schemer, it’s true. Let’s see if that helps any in the alligator pit..” – Dread
- 233 “Match the smile but watch the knife.” – Soninke sayingThe precarious balance the Woe had struck tra
- 234 “And so Triumphant said: ‘Tremble, for I am not yet content.'” – Extract from the Scroll of Dominion
- 235 “You could gather the stuff of all the Hells and still find less Evil within than lies in the soul o
- 236 “Seventeen: always agree when offered to share in the rule of the world by a villain. The three to f
- 237 “I’ve found that nothing quite sets the tone for council like strangling a courtier with my bare han
- 238 “Callowans as a people can be summed up by the fact that, before the Uncivil Wars had even come to a
- 239 “It is said that on the eve of the Maddened Fields, the Tyrant Theodosius consulted with the many De
- 240 “My dear prince, why would I settle for merely being on the right side of history when I could be on
- 241 “A battle is, in my experience, a handful of hours where one of two generals proceeds to destroy his
- 242 “Note: though ‘fell down the stairs’ is common fate for Praesi highborn, further study demonstrate t
- 243 “Chaos is a ladder, Chancellor. It never goes quite where you need it to, and the rise is always mor
- 244 “Kings and shepherds fit in the same cook pot.” – Orc sayingIt was a difficult to describe. The powe
- 245 “From the example of the claimant Desolate we can learn this: no scheme is so perfect that it is inv
- 246 “As the Bellerophans had not redrawn their war maps in over a century, their expedition against Pent
- 247 “To declare an assertion of the People untrue is unlawful, even if it was retroactively asserted by
- 248 “Do not call a man loyal who still draws breath.” -Dread Emperor Terribilis IIThere’d be no replacin
- 249 “Spring brings southern weddings and northern burials.” – Lycaonese saying“I am grieved to hear of y
- 250 “A passable plan done in a day will nearly always beat an exquisite scheme requiring a month.” – Dre
- 251 “Forty-two: should a disagreement lead one of the party to leave, you should expect combat within th
- 252 “There is no poison more potent than hatred made silent.” – Arlesite sayingI twisted my boot sharply
- 253 “All serve, by whip or by writ.” – Inscription carved above the entrance to Stygia’s MagisteriumThe
- 254 “No, see, you’ll profit as well. All you need is to convince five others of contributing coin and wh
- 255 “I am ever amused to hear men speak of senseless violence. What is violence, if not the failure of r
- 256 “One hundred and ninety-three: should your nemesis offer you a wager, a truce or delay for the first
- 257 “Over the month I spent in Atalante I witnessed no fewer than two hundred debates take place under t
- 258 “Best not to think too deeply, lest the dwarves take the thought.” – Mercantian sayingThe Mighty Kod
- 259 “Come now, my lords, you started this war knowing what I’m about.” – Dread Empress Massacre the Firs
- 260 “May the Heavens strike me down if I lie. Again.” – Dread Emperor Abominable, the Thrice-StruckNo on
- 261 “Note: bottling up the power of friendship cannot be achieved by bottling up friends. Must pursue fu
- 262 “In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is lynched.” – Praesi sayingSince my crowning I’d fou
- 263 “Beware those who peddle sweet truths, for that which cleanses is rarely gentle.” – King Edmund of C
- 264 “Do I even need to give the order?” – Dread Empress Massacre“Mobility is how they have survived, You
- 265 “Of course I fear my friends. If they did not scare me, why befriend them at all?” – Dread Empress P
- 266 “He who trusts no one finds only enemies.” – Callowan sayingBack when he’d been an unblooded boy in
- 267 “In the East they say that doubt is the death of men, but I have seen the end of the forking path an
- 268 “A man could sift through all of Creation and never find so much as a speck of this elusive thing ca
- 269 “Fifty-nine: it is always better to interrupt a plan than carry one out. Your finest successes will
- 270 “I don’t care if they’ve been training, it’s only been two months. What could they possibly have lea
- 271 “Blood sacrifice is such an ugly term. I prefer to think of it a ‘blood redistribution’, a thriving
- 272 “When in doubt, attack. When doubtless, attack as well.” – Bastien de Hauteville, Proceran generalGr
- 273 “‘lo and behold, I have brought peace to the Empire.” – Dread Empress Massacre, after ordering the B
- 274 “It is a small-minded man who needs a reason to create a ritual that would crash the moon into Creat
- 275 “With great madness comes great possibility.” – Dread Emperor Malevolent I, the UnhallowedIt took th
- 276 “It is common practice among the lower classes of Praes, who lack surnames, to name their children a
- 277 “And so Sinistra said: ‘What we cannot grow we will take by dread, and damnation on all who deny thi
- 278 “There is greater power in severing than binding, in releasing than capturing. The most fundamental
- 279 “It is a bitter truth that in trying to escape the flaws of our parents we inevitably inherit the wo
- 280 “Dearest Edda, beloved daughter. I would offer you words of wisdom or comfort, but after a lifetime
- 281 “Obviously you can’t kill me now: your enmity is with the Dread Emperor of Praes, and I’ve already a
- 282 “Traitorous’s Law: while redemption is the greatest victory one can achieve over a villain, to funct
- 283 “Own what you are, no matter how ugly the face of it. No lies are ever more dangerous to a villain t
- 284 “A ruler must consider all necessary injuries before beginning to inflict them on an enemy, for thro
- 285 “For though these armed men may carry banner and obey a prince, without justice they are only bandit
- 286 “The rat it bites the rat On the tail, the tail, the tail The rat it does grow fat And swell, and sw
- 287 “My husband thought himself a cynic for believing that men so often race towards the bottom of the b
- 288 “There is more power in blood spilled willingly than unwillingly. The latter is simply a great deal
- 289 “Quite literally not what I was aiming for, but I can work with this.” – Dread Empress Regalia II, a
- 290 “In trying to beat a fool at her own game, I have only made another.” – Theodosius the Unconquered,
- 291 “The finest summation of Traitorous’s reign I ever heard came from an illiterate peasant from the ou
- 292 “Hubris and wearing a helmet are not mutually exclusive. Here, allow me to demonstrate.” – Dread Emp
- 293 “I speak today not for humble man-eating tapirs but instead for the most ambitious specimens their k
- 294 “Thus the Gods granted us the second boon: beyond the veil of death lies a land of always plenty, wh
- 295 “Now, luck it always turns. Nothing you can do about that. But that’s the trick, you see – wait long
- 296 “Only one kind of war is ever just, that which is waged on the Enemy.” – Extract from ‘ The Faith of
- 297 “By hook and crook we will all hang, High Lords, from a noose woven of our many loose ends. But chee
- 298 “A horse and fall was all it took For every last to take the hook Now the kitchen’s full of cooks, A
- 299 “Even a devil can be merciful once.” – Callowan sayingThe night was full of shadows and every last o
- 300 “Everything happens for a reason, and this time the reason is that I godsdamned said so.” – Queen El