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Janet Morris

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    All gods are tricksters, and war gods worst of any.

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    Always take responsibility for your past. It is your only collateral in life. Unless you despise yourself now, you cannot despise yourself then. Everything you did is a part of the process that brought you here. All your past is as alive and real as your so-called 'present.'

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    And as for death - we get what we expect.

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    And personally, I've lost my thirst for vengeance.

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    And Tempus thought then that nothing was more worthwhile than what was growing in this whitewashed barracks, where he has come to build a force such as men or gods have never seen - a force worth reckoning with, if you were of a mind. And something was of that mind. And something else opposed it. He should have expected that. Battle in the heavens, battle on the earth.

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    And what do the Theban hoplites see in this extended rending of the sky, this white-bright glory of Enlil's lightning? The future, but not theirs: paired cavalry fighters; formed ranks of armored death; grim men on their tall horses with lightning limning weapons tailored to the task; men spoiling for a fight if the gods allowed - the Sacred Band of Stepsons, out from shadows and the dark.

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    Arrows are cheap; you're expensive.

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    Ask yourselves if the gods are angry, you who have seen Harmony come among us, walk among us, touch us, look kindly upon us. We are the Sacred Band of Thebes. We fight in the forefront, therefore we bleed first. We live, therefore we die.

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    As Seth's apprentice, I've learned wisdom of which you've never dreamed.

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    A wise one determines his own fate.

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    Bandara was not an easy place to return to: it could hide from the common worlds whose periphery it inhabited. But Bandara never had, in all its years, completely disappeared.

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    Be careful what you pray for.

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    Be polite to all, friendly to none. Be professional. Be ready to kill everyone and everything.

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    But she has found real love, and love can heal and save.

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    Choose life over death, Niko, when a choice can be made that puts no soul in jeopardy.

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    Death is a doorway, Niko, that leads to an adventure greater than any you have ever known.

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    Deception is a tactic: use it. Do whatever it takes to win.

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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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    Don't blame yourself, or worry. Neither does a bit of good.

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    Don't forget, Riddler, how I love thee. Or all we shared together. Or that this sea and all other seas can lead you back to me.

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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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    Each soul has its appointed doom. How is it you dare to raise a mortal boy so high - high enough to flout the gods? Bring godhead where a man may reach out and take it? growls Enlil, and lightning splits a clear blue sky.

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    Every man heals himself.

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    Every man's in his own hands, with a little help from his brothers.

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    Fight for life itself and everlasting freedom of the human spirit.

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    For Harmony. A chance at life. To fight on other days.

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    For me, myth is the 'common' language of us all.

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    ‎For Tempus...was a dozen storm gods' avatar; no army he sanctified could know defeat; no war he fought could not be won. Combat was life to him; he fought like the gods themselves.

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    For the gift of life, the only true thanks was in living fully, and facing death with honor.

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

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

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    Generosity is never out of season.

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    Go carefully, child of mat, where no mercy can be had, and let your faith lead you on.

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    "Godling? Demigod?" Lysis nearly howled. "You'd be beaten black and blue in Thebes, and staked out overnight for claims like that. In Sparta, the secret police would ambush you, violate you, skin you alive and use your skull for a drinking cup.

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    Gods and men honor those who have fought in battle.

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    Gods and politics are the tools with which the godless and unprincipled manipulate the gullible.

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    Gods are nothing without their worshipers; they act on the affairs and the passions of men.

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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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    Gods have bloody hands.

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    Grab reality by the balls and squeeze.

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    Haste breeds error; error breeds woe.

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    He loves the world so much. I agree it would be a shame to take that love away from meadow and tree, stream and sky, and all that lives in nature, and leave them lonely.

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    Here and now was always where Tempus was, not off somewhere in the realm of Greater Good or Mortal Soul or Eternal Consequence. He'd lost the ability to determine greater good, if there was one; his mortal soul he'd given up on long ago. And as for eternal consequence - he was its embodiment.

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    Here Stormbringer spies the Stepsons, the Theban fighters, and the 3rd Commando, attending to their own. In the face of such unflinching determination and unswerving devotion, the hurricane pauses and calms. Its ravings turn to mutters.

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    Her idea of who's worth what ain't mine.

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    Honorable battle sustains a Sacred Band.

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    Humiliation sets armies marching, empires falling, breaks hearts and minds and souls.

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    Humans create their futures every day of every year; only you can alter your worlds.

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    I am always yours to call, wherever the sea can reach.

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    I can start the rain. Bring thunder. Bring lightning. Want to see?