Resist. Come, you’re tough enough, my lady, aren’t you, if you beg for death rather than inflict evil? - Tanith Lee

The deeds of conquest and omnipotence have a sameness, as does the exposition of most evil.

A day out from the bay of Saardos, Drokler honored the brass Rorn god in the prow with a pound of incense.
The blank god mask stared back at them through the pall of sweet blue smoke....It gazed in myopic stillness out over the long shock of the waves, ignoring their words, their presence, their costly offering.

Anackire asks nothing because she needs nothing, being everything," Raldnor said tightly, using a quotation of the temple.
The Ommos laughed gently and shook his head.
"Such undemanding gods.