...and lose, and start again at your beginnings,
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the will which says to them, 'Hold on!'...
—"If", Rudyard Kipling

Sabine is a half-elven paladin of Wetos, the Kadarin god of vengeance and righteous wrath. She leads the expedition to Kadar on behalf of the Church.