Altar Craftsman. Playing by Someone Else's Rules

What should you do to win when you’re playing on someone else’s field by someone else’s rules? First, you must know them well. Second, don’t make the moves the enemy expects. And third, adjust their rules to fit yours—so that no scoundrel realizes that the rules have changed. You’ll say something like that is impossible? San Sanych Yeremeyev didn’t know it, which is why he acted against hired killers, rulers, dwarves, and elves using their own weapons—responding to the enemies’ intrigues with such a tangled web of rumors, facts, and outright lies that it was impossible not to believe it. Besides, he could always rely on the support of reliable friends—and that trump card meant there was nothing the enemy could play…