Gernia vs RotE *spoilers all Hobb books*

[Farseer]

Often it's the simple things, or themes, that have the most power for us...not to mention history. I can't help but think of Amber's words to Brashen that said something about life hinging on a man's love for a woman...I'll try and find that quote from SoD.

Dont' ask me why I have gone on a (lengthy!) search for this quote at last, out of all of the things that I could be doing on here and in my life , but at least I can tick off this one job on my list. It is Amber speaking to Brashen in Chapter Thirty ' Convergence' of Ship of Destiny:

Yet all you can perceive is that you are separated from Althea. A man's loss of a mate may be the essential trigger that determines all events from henceforth. Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart?