"If memory serves, there haven't been too many purely over any one religious belief or other. War is more complicated than that, so there's not really anything holy about any of them. Unless you count the way wars tend to crop up when the True Runes end up in basically anyone's hands..."

Literally and figuratively! The Runes did fight, sure enough, as that batty priest had claimed, but even those Caesar wouldn't call holy wars.

He took a second to frown at the elevator door as it closed again and moved on to the next floor of many floors she'd triggered. He didn't even know which was theirs!

"And it's not difficult. You either locate a True Rune and take it for yourself or you just have the worst luck and one makes the choice for you."