Thel 'Vadam/Quotes

Here is a list of quotes from the Arbiter.

Halo 2

 * "If they came to hear me beg, they will be disappointed." To Tartarus, referring to the crowd who had gathered to watch him being branded with the Mark of Shame
 * "What would you have your Arbiter do?" What the Arbiter asks the Prophets on the level The Arbiter
 * "Even on my knees I do not belong in their presence." To the prophet of Truth and Mercy on the level, The Arbiter.
 * "That makes two of us." To Half-Jaw in the cutscene of, The Arbiter.
 * "The cable, I'm going to cut it" Talking to Half-Jaw in The Oracle level.
 * "Retrieving the Icon is my only concern." Said to Tartarus on the level Quarantine Zone
 * "When the Prophets learn of this, they will take your head!" To Tartarus, as the Brutes betray the Elites and Tartarus attempts to kill the Arbiter.
 * "Kill me or release me, parasite. But do not waste my time with talk!" Talking to Gravemind
 * "There are things about Halo even the Hierarchs do not understand." Said to Tartarus before fighting against him on the Great Journey level.
 * "Tartarus, the Prophets have betrayed us." Said to Tartarus before fighting against him on the Great Journey level.
 * "And where, Oracle, is that?" Said to 343 Guilty Spark

Halo 3
"And so, you must be silenced." (The Prophet of Truth and Arbiter moments before the Arbiter kills Truth.) "Fear not, for we have made it so." - The Arbiter, referring to Sanghelios "By your word, Arbiter." - Rtas 'Vadum "Take us home." (To Rtas 'Vadum after Arbiter was brought on board Shadow of Intent at the end of Halo 3)
 * "Stop staring at me!". To MC if player stares idly at him for a long time, unknown if IWHBYD is needed.
 * "The Prophets use you like they used me! Reject their lies. Rebel, or all your hives will perish!". (To a swarm of Drones in Crow's Nest.)
 * "I will have my revenge on a Prophet, not a plague!" (To the Prophet of Truth on the Ark.)
 * "I. Am. Truth. The voice of the Covenant!" The Prophet of Truth
 * "Were it so easy." (To the Master Chief in Sierra 117 when they first meet, and during the ending ceremony for the MIA/KIA soldiers and the presumed-dead Master Chief.)
 * "Things look different, without the Prophet's lies clouding my vision. But I would like to see our own home, to know that it is safe." - Rtas 'Vadum
 * "We trade one villain for another." (To the Master Chief, referring to the betrayal of the Gravemind
 * "No, this is our fight, and I will see it finished." (To Rtas 'Vadum)
 * "There was honor in our Covenant once, and there shall be again!" (On The Storm, after arriving by Pelican.)
 * "In a better time... I would have called him a friend." (If Master Chief is killed any time during game play.)
 * "Welcome to the Social." (Floodgate, IWHBYD skull. This is also the Microsoft Zune catchphrase.}
 * "You shot me, fool!" " (If shot by player. (IWHBYD skull))
 * "Did he betray us in some way?"(If you kill a marine)
 * "Did you know he fights with us?" (if you betray an ally).
 * "Rise up and I will kill you, again and again!" (reffering to the flood).
 * "Why do you shoot me?"(If you shoot him)
 * "Open your eyes demon!"(If you shoot him)
 * "Slothful runts. Kill them as they sleep." On the Ark, to John-117, when coming upon several sleeping Grunts.
 * "No. I will not be shamed. Not by you again." (If he sees a brute chieftian)
 * "We're allies."(If you shoot him)
 * "Now is not the time for that kind of anger." (If you shoot him)
 * "Save your fire for the brutes." (If you shoot him)
 * "Cease at once!" (If you shoot him)

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