"I was born in Nineveh in what is now called Iraq. I don't mean the modern ruins on the Tigris near Mosul; I speak of the city of old. My father was a priest of Ishtar, and my mother served the king's Great Queen as a friend and advisor. In my day, Nineveh was a city in the Assyrian empire. I lived there and should have died there, even before Jonah the prophet walked its streets."
"I have talked with the descendants of Atlantis, and the Greeks sought my counsel before their town meetings. Later I marched across the known world with noble Alexander, and I saw him weep when he determined to end his campaigns and return home. It would not be inaccurate to claim that I have seen kingdoms rise and fall."
"The Crusades, the temple of Artemis at Ephesus, the forbidden city of the Empty Quarter, the rise of the Ottoman Empire - the Great War - I have lived through all these times. I have lived lifetimes. This is something of a curse, for though I retain the appearance of youth and I am very wealthy, I do not care for the banalities of life. People come and people go; I remain the same. Until now, that is. I see that I was never immortal, just cursed to live too long in this world."
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