The Blinding Knife - Pg 221

   What's the endgame, Rossie? Sure, the Guiles nearly rule the world, but Prisms don't last forever. Your family's almost gone. What do you want? 

   Maybe Andross Guile had been scheming so long that he didn't know how to not scheme. Maybe there was no winning, and he knew it, but losing was definitely possible, and his pride wouldn't allow him to lose. So he'd fight and fight and tear down a hundred other families and keep clawing until they finally nailed shut his crypt.