"The world as I once knew it was a place of magic - full of mystery and inhabited by creatures of glamour and terror.
The men who lived there lit their bonfires and wondered at what crept and lurked in the darkness outside their weak circles of light.
All their dreams, their aspirations and dreads, come from that darkness. Now, as the forces of "progress" cover the meadows in brick
and cobblestone, as they replace the majestic loft of tree with the blocky ponderousness of building, they also light the world in their
electric, actinic glare. With the lighting of the shadows, man loses his ability to fear, and to dream. The night, once the font of the
unknown, becomes only the lack of the sun. I have conceived of a plan to revive the darkness, to bring a resurrection of the ability
to fear and dream. And, once my dark project is realized, they shall know again to fear and love their Lord".
-Constantine, Thief: The Dark Project
