The Curse of the Mistwraith (Wars of Light and Shadow, #1)

by Janny Wurts

‘I’ll go to Karthan, use magecraft to free the waters beneath the sand and help the land become green again. With grain growing in the fields, the need for piracy and bloodshed will be ended. Then s’Ffalenn and s’Ilessid can stop their feuding.’

‘The wisest of sages have said that a man will choose violence out of fear.’

‘The same sages also wrote that violence is the habit of the weak, the impotent and the fool.’

‘Power without wisdom eventually destroys itself.

Show me a hero and I’ll show you a man enslaved by his competence.’