Arrows are cheap; you're expensive.
When you give death, you give of your own life - every time.
Humiliation sets armies marching, empires falling, breaks hearts and minds and souls.
Gods and politics are the tools with which the godless and unprincipled manipulate the gullible.
Sometimes the cost of winning for all the right reasons is so great that spirits die and hearts grow cold.
Tempus would be protected, better shielded from whatever the Stepson thought threatening, if love could heal and save.