"maybe not you but maybe your ancestors the bone singers who came before maybe they killed and ate to consume the enemy's power this one and brothers do the same"
— San, Abraxas (Hrodvitnon)
"‘Vril’ is a term for this kind of vital energy that permeates the world. It’s got all kinds of names: Vril, Odic force, Orgone, Elan Vitale, Ki, Prana, and the list goes on and on… People keep ‘discovering’ it and science keeps dismissing it. [... T]his vital energy pops up in almost every magical system except skepticism, which believes that if you can sneer at it, it doesn’t exist."
— Mephisto the Mentalist, "Razzle Dazzle", Part 2, Whateley Universe