those lines I like

[communi_kate]

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"Born Edmund Scarasso, Lord Iron had taken his father's title and lands and ridden them, first to war, then to power, and finally to a notorious fame."
from 'The Cambist and Lord Iron', by Daniel Abraham.

and 

'In the centre of the arrangement she hangs her own war standard, the torn coin-and-comet pennant that rallied her Dukes on the day the rebellion began, on the day it ended, and on all the days between."
from 'The Traitor Baru Cormorant, Her Field-General, And Their Wounds' by Seth Dickinson.