Arrows are cheap; you're expensive.

Die never for a god, Nikodemos who should know better - not your soldiers' god, nor any other.

It was his soul's freedom that was in question. And that question was whether freedom was worth the price when it meant shirking the responsibilities of honor.

Your honor blinds you, Tempus, to what's right and wrong these days.

When I write what publishers call 'fantasy' I am writing in what I think is the most important tradition of fiction: starting with Homer and up through Shakespeare and Milton, the most important themes to tackle are those of the mythopoeic domain, tales of the body and mind seen through a temperament and a cosmos divorced from current reality so what is said can be more clear.

Grab reality by the balls and squeeze.

You've been playing gods-and-witches again, that's clear.