What is needed is never to be had without price.

Wars don't bring lasting peace, only lasting death.

It's in the god's hands.

The meaning of life, Nikodemos, is to live life with meaning. The purpose of life is merely to live it, perhaps to give it.

Fury from the heavens; fury at the gods - inseparable.

Gather the shards of your courage. Patch together what resolve you can. We'll find this thing - and kill it.

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.