The Fortifications of the Town and Port of Dunkirk I send thee as a thing by it self, because I am inform’d the Grand Seignior has commanded thee to make a Port and Harbour at Candia, which he designs to make the strongest City, and the safest Harbour in the World.

He led them on a tour: the ballroom with giant black chandelier, a dining room decorated with suits of armour and mounted deers' heads, more luxurious gaming parlours, a succession of brothelly bedrooms decorated with gilt and fur.

While a player in Advanced Dungeons & Dragons is required to properly perform one of nine moral categories (e.g., lawful good or chaotic neutral), the Everway player is expected to perform the literary equivalent of moral themes. It is easy to imagine a Macbeth Everway character with the fault of ambition or King Solomon with the virtue of wisdom. It is, however, an additional step removed—and therefore seemintly more contrived—to imagine Macbeth as chaotic neutral, neutral evil, or lawful neutral.

One swallow does not a summer make and one football game doesn't make a season.