“"I don't think I would be too comfortable with many of his compliments… He's a butcher!" "More than that, my friend… he is a warmaster. And that makes him a master butcher."”

Source: Drenai series, The King Beyond the Gate, Ch. 21

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British author of heroic fantasy 1948–2006

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