where obedience was sacred and ambition was a sin best worn quietly. His family, minor nobility with ties to the Order of St. Tetrimon, expected him to pursue theology. Instead, he chose war.
A general crafts the architecture of war, but it is the officers who breathe life into its corridors. Failure in the field is rarely born of chaos alone—it is often the echo of misaligned intent, of leadership fractured between conception and execution.
The Lord is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him. Nahum 1:7