The Book of Dragon: Dragon and Issola (Vlad Taltos Collections 4)

by Steven Brust

“War,” Sethra Lavode once explained to me, “consists of missed opportunities alternating with narrow escapes, and it usually ends when someone, somewhere, fails to commit a timely error.”

The gods are beings who are able to manifest in at least two places at once, and yet who are not subject to the forcible control of any other being; this latter marking the difference between a god and a demon.”