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I know I've seen it somewhere. My group is on book 3 of Age of Ashes and one of them is a hellknight, so they're getting a letter from Citadel Vrain about trying to bring Citadel Altaerin back as a functioning citadel, and I want to tie the letter's themes into the book they're on.

Now, I know I've read "Tomorrow must burn so that today..." somewhere, but I can't find for the life of me where it is. I've been looking for hours. Does anyone know where I can find this in-setting saying?

I also realize that this might be in the wrong section of the forum. It's kinda Lost Omens, it's kinda Adventure Path.
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GM1 wrote:

I know I've seen it somewhere. My group is on book 3 of Age of Ashes and one of them is a hellknight, so they're getting a letter from Citadel Vrain about trying to bring Citadel Altaerin back as a functioning citadel, and I want to tie the letter's themes into the book they're on.

Now, I know I've read "Tomorrow must burn so that today..." somewhere, but I can't find for the life of me where it is. I've been looking for hours. Does anyone know where I can find this in-setting saying?

I also realize that this might be in the wrong section of the forum. It's kinda Lost Omens, it's kinda Adventure Path.

It is in the backmatter of Hellknight Hill, probably in the plans section. It is the big M's mantra.

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Found it! Thanks for the tip!
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I believe there was a dev commentary where (probably James Jacobs) said it didn't come from anywhere in particular but they found it really evocative and then had to write around it. That's from the writing side, not the in-universe explanation.

And you can probably fact check that on Paizo's YouTube channel; it likely would have been one of the Pathfinder Friday streams for the Age of Ashes books.
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I made up the title "Tomorrow Must Burn" as a potential name for this Adventure Path or one of its adventures. I ended up using it for part 3, and then had to reverse engineer an in-world source from it, but before Age of Ashes, the phrase didn't really exist.
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James Jacobs wrote:
I made up the title "Tomorrow Must Burn" as a potential name for this Adventure Path or one of its adventures. I ended up using it for part 3, and then had to reverse engineer an in-world source from it, but before Age of Ashes, the phrase didn't really exist.

This is the exact explanation I half remembered, straight from the original source. Personally I think insights like this are super cool and interesting. Thanks for sharing them.

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I thought it was an old James Bond movie.
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shepsquared wrote:
I thought it was an old James Bond movie.

No, you're thinking of "Tomorrow Never Dies Because Diamonds are Forever on Her Majesty's Secret Service at Casino Royale with Goldfinger II: The Quantum of Dr. No's Skyfallen Moonraker."

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shepsquared wrote:
I thought it was an old James Bond movie.

That would be Tomorrow Never Dies

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Zaister wrote:
That would be Tomorrow Never Dies

I can't deal with your avatar and that quote.

There's a picture of groetus and beside it, it says 'tomorrow never dies'
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krobrina wrote:
Zaister wrote:
That would be Tomorrow Never Dies

I can't deal with your avatar and that quote.

There's a picture of groetus and beside it, it says 'tomorrow never dies'

Haha, yes, I didn't even realize that, nice catch :)

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