"If I took that tropes hypothesis of yours at all seriously I would not be making important oaths," he says. "However, I don't, so, I swear to you, if these turn out to be items of power and significance, I will guard them and their secrets with my life, and with those resources I can command, and I will not allow them to be taken from me and I'll recover them if they are, whatever that takes and wherever it takes us...
...unless you or Abadar tell me to consider myself no longer bound by this oath, or my best understanding of you and of Abadar if both of you are dead or inaccessible, would tell me that."