Can it be that the power to conquer Xaltotun lurks in that crimson bauble?
The greater power must always conquer the lesser.
Then indeed the dark powers would conquer!
Their opposite powers alternately conquer and become conquered until a quality is reached which is uniform throughout the whole: this is the complexion.
Meanwhile European powers conquered much of the world with extreme brutality.
The power of light, layered and joined, melded in the willingness to lose itself, can conquer anything.
In the unlikely event an outside power conquered Bennaria, Corius and his fellow Councilors would come up short-probably a head short.
To suppress advances by force would instead require that one power conquer and occupy hostile powers armed with nuclear weapons-hardly a safe policy.
Long before any Wall Street pundit, Karl Marx foresaw how the wealth-creating power of capitalism would conquer the world.
The British Empire, with near total command of the world's oceans, had the power and resources to conquer the German colonies when the Great War started.