His hydra army kills him, rules for 26,000 years until they massacre two million humans, at which point the drakes rebel in the Great Rebellion of the Drakes and fight the hydras for another 24,000 years.

I spend a lot of time looking out through the eyes of superintelligence, a view that tries to eliminate everything that belongs to human minds or evolved minds rather than minds in general. Watching Buffy enables me to do a “hard sync” with normal life (32), run the brain under its design conditions for a while.

“Saetan,” she said, as if trying out the name.  "Saetan.“  It was a warm caress, a sensuous, lovely caress.  "It suits you.”

Saetan, the High Lord of Hell, sat quietly by the fire, a hearth rug wrapped around his legs, turning the pages of a book he had no interest in reading.  He sipped a glass of yarbarah, the blood wine, taking no pleasure in its taste or warmth.

“Hayll” and “Hell” are distinct coexisting things in this series: confirmed

Emo Satan Saetan: confirmed

Stupid bitch.  She didn’t understand the game she played.  No – she didn’t understand the game he played.  He was 1,700 years old and just coming into his prime.  He’d worn a Ring of Obedience controlled by Dorothea SaDiablo, Hayll’s High Priestess, for as long as he could remember.  He had been raised in her court as her cousin’s bastard son, had been educated and trained to serve Hayll’s Black Widows.

help.  help.  what have i gotten myself into

When making an Offering to the Darkness, a person can descend a maximum of three ranks from his/her Birthright Jewel.

He became sturdier-looking.  I attribute this expansion less to physical than to spiritual nourishment; he was able once more to feed freely on the bread of hatred, and it actually enabled him to put on flesh.

There was also new hair, possibly in unusual places.

I wanted to cry for help, but in bread no one can hear you scream.

Sleep in fish is not extensively studied.