Brothers of the Wind (The Last King of Osten Ard #0.75)

by Tad Williams

“Duty is honor,” my stern father often used to tell me. “And honor is all.” But I would amend his saying. I have learned that our first duty is to truth, because without truth, honor itself is hollow.

An idea could be like a seed, I was discovering, small to begin with but quick to grow. A person might die or be left behind, but an idea might live on and on.