Nihil/Quotes

Dialogue spoken by Nihil.

Series 3: Episode 1: The Glassmaker Emerges[]

"Oh. I'm so glad you're here. Was old Shigg a mutual acquaintance? How well did you know him, really?" (download, history) (download, history)
"Fine. You talk to daffy old Shigg. If you favor the opinions of the low. Of criminals. The depraved." (download, history)
"Do you know what he did, old Shigg? Set out a selfish play against his clade. Willing and able to draw blood for it, too." (download, history) (download, history)
"A foul necrocapitalist, a clear violator of the 401st and 623rd legem!" (download, history)
"To your association I am now witness." (download, history)

Series 3: Episode 2: Corpus Crystal[]

"Oh dear. We meet again. I really am in the middle of something." (download, history)
"I find chaos... unsettling." (download, history)
"Corpus dogma demands self-interest. Their culture is ordered by it. Vondu here was selfless." (download, history)
"Look at the chaos that spewed from that. Broken laws, black marketeering, a broken-hearted mother, and a collapsed family empire." (download, history)
"Everyone is guilty of the good they did not do - if one only looks." (download, history)
"And I see everything. What to do. What to do..." (download, history)

Series 3: Episode 3: Sea Glass[]

"Rarely does one encounter a lamb so eager to know the mouth of the lion. But, since you're here..." (download, history)
"There is order, and there is chaos." (download, history)
"I am order. He was chaos." (download, history)
"His insubordination, thoughts... guilt... feelings... chaos to Grineer order." (download, history)
"Your persistence is disruptive to my efforts to order. Therefore you are...?" (download, history)
"You are an infection. Chaos infects, as Gral was infected, and spreads. A lack of vigilance is the vector. Oh, we lose vigilance if not reminded. This Grineer? Now? Is an eternal reminder, has become an agent of order and so... is redeemed. You, yourself, are not beyond redemption." (download, history)

Series 3: Episode 4: Iced Vallis[]

"You want to know why I'm doing this. Your friend - Nora - wants to know. Naughty little Nora. Afraid I would find her all alone and put her in a bottle. Yes. Cutter and his friends have been quite helpful in opening my eyes and ears to the modern System." (download, history)
"Why oppose me? We both prize Justice, defend it. What justice do you imagine enacting if I have to put you in a bottle?" (download, history)
"Do you know mercy, Tenno? I almost spared Cutter. He was a traitor, but to betray one must belong. Cutter never did. He was a nation of one, and to that he was truly loyal." (download, history)
"But traitor he was and for all his proud words he begged at the end. And I... killed him, I suppose. Killed what he was. But you kill, too, constantly. Doesn't put you in much of a position to judge." (download, history)
"I have all that I need. Order will no longer be upheld one miscreant at a time. I am amplified. Soon I shall be everywhere and with it... order." (download, history)
"What a fine example each and every Tenno shall make, you killers of foes, friends and family. And naughty Nora. Her role won't change terribly much, but her agenda... very different. A voice of truth and order, sermonizing tirelessly, forever. Fully aware of what she has become. Goodbye, Tenno. Our next meeting will be our last." (download, history)

Series 3: Episode 5: The Final Battle[]

Looking for clues[]

"A little late for that. I'm everywhere now. Hello. Oh, she can't hear us. It's just you and me. For now. Once I filled this chamber with filled oubliettes. That anguished choir sang a song that healed my jaded old soul. That choir shall sing again." (download, history)
"Butcher, barber, surgeon. These are issues of degree. Sometimes all that was needed was a little off the top... but it's the beheadings people remember. A society fails without both haircuts and hangings. Naughty Nora doesn't understand that." (download, history)
"They were deranged children run amok. Centuries of progress - destroyed. But they never destroyed me. Never caught me. And our end only proved our correctness... that our laws had been just. Too late. But. It's never too late, is it, Nora?" (download, history)
"Oh please. The mob murdered the Empire. Since then, the Origin System has known nothing but conflict, chaos, and collapse. The human capacity for delusion is truly without limit. You ask why I exist? I give you this little mouthpiece for the collapse of civilization." (download, history)

Missed evidence[]

Inspecting the Glassed Orokin[]

"Took you long enough." (download, history)

In the Memory Weave[]

"The law is the heaviest of stones - a saving anchor for the righteous, a killing weight for the unjust. Prepare. For it now. Descends. Upon YOU." (download, history)
"Naughty Nora with her little shoulder to the door, thinking to keep me out. Her defenses won't last long while you, on the other hand, have no defenses at all." (download, history)
"I am with Nora now, Tenno. She's afraid. But not for long. I shall remake her in an image more appropriate to her future function..." (download, history)
"Ssh. Ssh. There. Silence. I had the strength to turn my instrument of judgment upon myself, to escape hordes of ravenous, idiot little specks like you. I have more than enough strength to shut... you... up." (download, history)

Boss Fight[]

Introduction[]

"When the barbarians are at the gate, the truly noble may choose to find an honorable way out; and so the crude and lawless find they have arrived too late. And thus, the weave of history may disguise a cunning victory as a defeat. I am Nihil. Glassmaker. Order. Shall be. Restored."

Phase One[]

Nora Night: "We're all here... Gral, Bak Vondu, Shigg... every last glassed soul... Find them, Dreamer... before we all join them..."
"Found someone, have you, Nora?"

Freeing Gral[]

"Wait. Of all the prisoners to free, you chose the doll-hugging pacifist?! This is too much!"
Nora Night: "Big words... from someone who crapped his toga and hid in the weave... when the Tenno kicked in his door."

Freeing wrong evidence related to Gral[]

"The Orokin designed them to be perfect. This one's very existence spits in the face of perfection. And you would release him?"
"Trapped, forever separated from his little fluffy friend. Pathetic. Leave him."
"A deviant who was an affront to generations of martial greatness deserves no better than an eternity in the prison to which I have consigned him!"

Phase Two[]

"You won't be getting any more help."

Freeing Bak Vondu[]

Nora Night: "An old friend wants to say hi."
"Damn you! Oh, Bak Vondu. You shall sing for me again!"
Nora Night: "Lot of info in here, Glassmaker. Legem 6-243. 'No capital sentence shall be passed without unanimous consent of the Seven, on pain of...' Oh, look at that. 'Forfeiture of all tools of office, banishment.' Huh. You're a criminal."

Freeing wrong evidence related to Bak Vondu[]

"A lifetime of dogma and creed were not enough to prevent his... deviation... from the norms of his culture. His sentence is just."
"Never more to extend a helping hand, this one. Leave him. He should wallow in that for eternity."
"Kindness. Charity. A violation of the social contract to which he was born. He deserves this."

Phase Three[]

Nora Night: "Glassing yourself let you escape once. Nowhere to run now. No clever way out. Time to live or die by these vaunted convictions. Glassmaker."
"So, Naughty Nora... fancies herself... a revolutionary AND a scholar. Well. I'm. The Big Dog. Here."

Freeing Shigg[]

"SHIGG!! You were scum when you were dragged to me... you were scum when you screamed, and you are scum to now!"
Nora Night: "Shut up, man. We're busy."

Freeing wrong evidence related to Shigg[]

"He will never again see the plains from the height of his brothers' scaffolds. I have made sure of that. That is just."
"This one will never again savor the taste of hot chimurr on a cold plains night. For his sins."
"Community. Raised him. Cared for him. And he turned his back on them! Let him suffer!"

Defeat[]

"Aaaah!"
Nora Night: "We're ready?"
"Waaaiiittt..."
Nora Night: "Get him."
"No! NOOOOOO...!"
Nora Night: "Now sing, you bastard."

Hell of a day...

Here he is. The Terror of the Orokin: bottled up like a rich lady's bathwater. Or two-credit hooch. Do what you want with him. Prop a door open, bury him twenty feet deep. Either way, he's yours. It's up to you to make sure he never gets loose again. Hell of a day, Dreamer. Hell of a day.

(Attachment: Vitrica Blueprint, Nihil's Oubliette)

Freeing wrong evidence[]

"Haven't done your due diligence, have you?"
"Do you even know what you're looking for?"
"Irrelevant."
"Motion denied."

Getting Damaged[]

"How. Dare you."
"This won't be pretty."
"You presumptuous tick."
"You. HURT. ME."
"For you... for this... I shall create... such... hell."
"Pain! For you! Forever!"
"You can't win. You can't."
"The Empire! Lives! Through me!"
"No! I will not fail again!"
"This is not the end, Betrayer! Our Golden Empire dies not here!"

Glassing Player[]

"Do you wish to make a final statement?"
"Break."
"Disappointing."
"Bear up. It's nearly over."
"Manners."
"Contemptible."
"On your knees!"

Killing Player[]

"Sentence... has been passed."
"Guilty."
"You had to do it the hard way."
"Persistent. Your kind always were."
"There is but one rule: the rule of the rod."

Nihil's Oubliette[]

"You made a mistake, placing me in here...whole and entire."
"HmmmmMmmmmm... Can I help you?"
"Look at you. Strutting. Righteous. We'll exchange places soon enough."
"Small minds die in cells. Great minds? Great minds do their finest work."
"I had generations to plan my return. Do you think - for one moment - that I had not allowed for this eventuality?"
"I glassed so many in my time. Surely you'd like to know where they are? Let me out. Let me out, and I'll show you."