The God Is Not Willing by Steven Erikson

Author:Steven Erikson [Erikson, Steven]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781409032823
Google: BUwDEAAAQBAJ
Amazon: B07GVBKC1N
Publisher: Transworld
Published: 2021-06-30T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

Warfare is a restless art. It may suit the tellers of tales to fix it in place. It may suit the creators of tapestries, frescoes and paintings to set upon battle-scenes of the distant past the modern phalanx, the panoply of common weapons: hauberks of chain and visored helms, the sky raining arrows and great siege engines battering the walls. The truth is: ways of killing define progress, not just in our civilization, but in all civilizations. These things evolve and as they evolve, they become more lethal.

In the late years of the reign of Emperor Mallick Rel, the Malazan legion shared only the trappings of its earlier predecessors. It was, in fact, utterly transformed from preceding periods of Early and Middle Conquest, and if it is said (by numerous contemporaries of that time) that the standard legion of regulars had declined in training, discipline and combat effectiveness, none would challenge the corresponding rise of the Marine Legion …

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