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Everything that anyone respects is what men naturally excel at: fighting, accruing wealth, playing at power.

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Janet Morris
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: May 25
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
Janet Ellen Morris
Janet E. Morris
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Wealth
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Accruing
Anyone
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It is hard to battle anger, for whatever it wants it pays from the soul.
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Gods colliding, ethos and mythos trying to combine. The Sacred Band caught up in a whirlwind not of any god's devising: he and Niko had wanted to save twenty-three pairs of fated Theban fighters. Now everything feels fated and fighting oversweeps its boundaries of time and place and plane.
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This is for you. A mage named Randal told me to give it to the Band if you ever came back. 'It surmounts evil,' he told me, 'keeps doom at bay.'
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I can start the rain. Bring thunder. Bring lightning. Want to see?
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So well do I love you, I go to my god singing your praises. When I meet my father, I will tell him I fought beside you.
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And as for death - we get what we expect.
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Sometimes a man does what he'd most like to avoid.
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Sometimes the cost of winning for all the right reasons is so great that spirits die and hearts grow cold.
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Some nights, valor and cold purpose aren't enough.
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What we hold sacred is honor, justice, and glory. You need not swear allegiance to our storm god, to serve with us. Fighters are among us from many lands, with many gods and many beliefs. Believe as you will. What is between a man and his god is theirs alone to say.
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You've been playing gods-and-witches again, that's clear.
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I must decide if you deserve to die.
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Shed your mortal skin and let me take you beneath the waves.
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I think we're all in Cime's army now. But never mind, the Storm God hasn't forgotten us. Heaven is no farther away than it ever was.
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Fight for life itself and everlasting freedom of the human spirit.
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Sacred Bands and elite squadrons aren't what the mercenaries' guild is about. Field them at your peril.
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Die never for a god, Nikodemos who should know better - not your soldiers' god, nor any other.
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Wars don't bring lasting peace, only lasting death.
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If cities have souls, Sanctuary's was troubled long before Tempus got here, and will be troubled long after he and his are gone.
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Dreamers and dreaming dead, lots of them from neither here nor there with no chance of getting home again, lost in place and time.
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