Unfortunately, the reality of war is that people will get hurt. Ensuring a just war is the most difficult of positions, and one that I take fairly seriously — even if I do speak of hurting, even killing, innocents.

[ He tips his head, and murmurs. ]

I must judge the number and importance of the lives I take here, against the number and importance of lives waiting for me to restore them. As the god of war, I am not blind to what a life, what a soul, weighs.