" We are the sons of that beast, Almuric, we are but spruced up- urbane predators. What else, if not a talent for violence separates the aristocracy from the peasantry? We are the nobility for the very fact that we are able to visit more violence upon them than they can upon us. History is written by nations with superior violence. The greatest civilizations to ever have existed were allowed such lofty cultivations only because of their divine brutality- their ability to vanquish those nations standing in the path of their destiny"

- Grand Champion, Count Húracan

Excerpt from
Varangian: Book One of the Byzantum Saga "

― Wolraad J. Kirsten , Varangian: Book One of the Byzantum Saga