"Frequently pretense is used to make people feel safe. Comfortable. But if anyone actually believes the rhetoric effectively keeps them safe it would be laughable."

Still, he was willing to dedicate his victories to a god just to see if the god would react. It would be hard to say if he would. But being that Rhade is accustomed to living on edge (most of his kind is) the pretense's are just there for him to find loopholes in. At least they keep him creative.

"I hope individuals like that don't make up the sum of the War god's followers. If that's the case I find him unfortunate. They weren't promising specimens."