Yes... you can have oaths, and kings, but in the end if you're going to fight--you won't succeed unless you believe in it. [She smiles a little.] I knew an arena-fighter who lost to one of my brother's forces, and he decided that being beaten by someone with conviction was better than winning for nothing better than money.

[Not that Rinoa seems anything like a professional sword-arm.]

Are you, now? [Ethlyn grins, it's true, she did just say that.] It sounds like you're well on the road to wisdom, then. Plenty of people spend too much effort into denying that they've made them.