"A lovers' spat," he said. "You know how it is. Boy meets girl, girl wants boy dead. An everyday story… — David Gemmell

All legends have a base in fact.

In my experience all women deserve someone better.

It is the curse of absolute power, Olek. There is no one to admonish you, no laws save those you make. We like to believe there is something special, even alien, about evil. We like to think that tyrants are different from the rest of us. That they are somehow inhuman. They are not. They are merely unchained, unfettered; free to do as they please.