"Carthak, though part of the emperor's efforts towards the war was bringing back the Immortals. Sorry for him that not everyone he brought wanted to join his armies and navies." She didn't sound the least bit sorry.

"But all the pages like Kel... they're trained on stories of how the immortals would appear over combat when the realm was opened and the immortals all but shoved out in front of them, often disoriented. Some immortals look mostly human, with just a small difference, some half human, some not at all human looking."