“The power of the God-Emperors didn’t come from the Spires, Jerilyn, nor was it a derivative of Spirit’s cheap, forgotten magik.  Issuing from a wellspring of divinity, it was altogether different, and, when fully vested in one of the blood, a power to be reckoned with.  The taint of shadow did not strip its potency.  If anything, the wild chaos of madness made it more formidable.”   The Wizard of the Blue Lagoon