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[–] [email protected] 72 points 2 years ago (6 children)

I write these words in steel, for anything not set in metal cannot be trusted.

[–] Scrath 35 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's a Mistborn reference isn't it? That sentence seems familiar

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

It is

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago

"What's a few words changed here and there among friends?" - Ruin, probably.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago

I am afraid, however, that all I have known - that my story - will be forgotten. I am afraid for the world that is to come. Afraid that Alendi will fail. Afraid of a doom brought by the Deepness.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Metals oxidize. You need a ceramic encased in a carefully constructed glass.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago

It's a reference to the Mistborn series of books.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Would papyrus sealed in clay jars in a cave high in the mountains above a dead sea be okay?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

If you are lucky

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I knew this was going to be top comment.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Can steel really be trusted if it can be rusted?