Sturm’s faith in Tanis

The knight had often tried to resolve within himself why he accepted Tanis’s leadership. He was nothing more than a bastard half-elf, after all. He did not come of noble blood. He wore no armor, carried no shield with a proud emblem. Yet Sturm followed him, and loved him and respected him as he respected no other living man.
Life was a dark shroud to the Solamnic knight. He could not pretend to ever know or understand it except through the code of the knights he lived by. “Est Sularus oth Mithas”—“My honor is life.” The code defined honor and was more complete and detailed and strict than any known on Krynn. The code had held true for seven hundred years, but Sturm’s secret fear was that, someday, in the final battle, the code would have no answers. He knew that if that day came, Tanis would be at his side, holding the crumbling world together. For while Sturm followed the code, Tanis lived it.

Excerpt From Dragons of Autumn Twilight, pg 124
Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman