" I know that the delight in battle, what we soldiers think of as courage, is not essential, even to a soldier. I need not call up anger any more—and the anger I called, in Kolobia, opened the way for Achrya's evil. I know that I can, if I but ask the gods, know what is right, and do it. "

― Elizabeth Moon , The Deed of Paksenarrion (The Deed of Paksenarrion, #1-3)