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Men in rage strike those who wish them best. [src]
  — Wilhelm Seax  

Wilhelm Seax is a bard who is mentioned in Dragons: Titan Uprising.

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The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones. [src]
  — Wilhelm Seax  

At some point, Wilhelm Seax claimed that "Men in rage strike those who wish them best" and that "The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones." These phrases would later be applied to the extremely aggressive Deathgripper individual Glaivedriver.

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  • Wilhelm Seax's name is a play on the name of the English poet William Shakespeare, who originally wrote the line "Men in rage strike those who wish them best," which Seax quotes in Glaivedriver's description, for his play Othello and the line "The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones," which Seax quotes in Dreadfall Glaivedriver's description, for his play Julius Caesar.
  • A Seax is an Old English term for a knife, dagger, or small sword. 'Saxon' is derived from 'seax'. 'Sax' is the Scandinavian word for 'scissors'.

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