" and calling down on to them all the peace of Usires God. Caught between two angry pagan armies, he was quickly killed very dead. “So,” Binabik waved his stick, beating down a high tussock of grass, “a story whose philosophy is difficult, hmmm? At least for we Qanuc, who prefer both being what you call pagan, and being what I call alive. "

― Tad Williams , The Dragonbone Chair (Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, #1)