Perhaps. A little. It is like cheques and balances.
[but more importantly, it's time for a lesson. She clears her throat, the tone the same as showing Kitty how to use a sword or knife or where to place her weight on a strike. ]
Honour is a code amoungst warriors that stops them and allows them to do and say certain things. Slights against honour are serious matters, and amoungst their peers it can affect everything about a person. Who they can talk to, what land they can buy, where they are sat amoungst their peers, whether they are even allowed to speak. It is unspoken of, but it's rules are absolute to those of its class.
For warriors, especially, it is important, because they rule by violence, more so than anything. So normal laws do not hold sway as being as important over one's honour, and indeed some laws and customs only matter as long as there is the strength of honour behind it.
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Date: 2019-04-26 03:34 pm (UTC)Perhaps. A little. It is like cheques and balances.
[but more importantly, it's time for a lesson. She clears her throat, the tone the same as showing Kitty how to use a sword or knife or where to place her weight on a strike. ]
Honour is a code amoungst warriors that stops them and allows them to do and say certain things. Slights against honour are serious matters, and amoungst their peers it can affect everything about a person. Who they can talk to, what land they can buy, where they are sat amoungst their peers, whether they are even allowed to speak. It is unspoken of, but it's rules are absolute to those of its class.
For warriors, especially, it is important, because they rule by violence, more so than anything. So normal laws do not hold sway as being as important over one's honour, and indeed some laws and customs only matter as long as there is the strength of honour behind it.