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More importantly, I had no reason to trust either Kurii or Priest-Kings with respect to more than a pretence of impartiality. - (Rebels of Gor, Chapter 21, Sentence #95)

They might have been doing no more than preparing the dice, a preparation in which the Kurii might themselves have collaborated. Similarly, in the very palace, I had recently sensed Kur. Did this mean that the Kurii favored the house of Yamada? Perhaps it was there to monitor matters, and little more. More importantly, I had no reason to trust either Kurii or Priest-Kings with respect to more than a pretence of impartiality. I had no reason to believe that Kurii, long confined to their steel spheres, and desperate to obtain a fresh, unspoiled world after they had ruined their own, would abide a negative result of the wager with equanimity. Too, Priest-Kings, in all their wisdom, must realize that Kurii, suspicious, ambitious, and aggressive, would be unlikely, indefinitely, to peaceably and harmoniously share a world. Matters were further complicated by my realization that factions existed amongst the Kurii, both within worlds and amongst worlds. - (Rebels of Gor)