This chapter's epigraph is from the opening lines of Chapter 1 of the Book of the Arrow, which is the first chapter of the novel. It is a quote from a famous poem by the English poet William Butler Yeats. The poem tells of a young boy who has been orphaned by his father's family, and the boy's father is a member of the Blood Devil Clan. The boy has been transformed into a blood devil god by the evil energy of the clan.