Of what value, really, is it to be able to bring down a running man with the great bow at two hundred yards,
to throw the quiva into a two-hort circle at twenty paces, to wield a sword with an agility others might bring to the handling of a knife?
Of what use are such dreadful skills?
Then I reminded myself that such skills are often of great use and that culture, with its glories of art, and music and literature, can flourish only within the perimeters of their employments.
Perhaps there is then a role for the lonely fellows on the wall, for the border guards, for the garrisons of far-flung outposts, for the guardsmen in the city treading their lonely rounds.
All these, too, in their humble, unnoticed way, serve.
Without them, the glory is not possible.
Without them, even their critics could not exist.
Magicians of Gor, page 131