Laws of Thring

There are Seven Laws of Thring. The Law of Love: Let not men of gentle birth cling to the skirts of their mothers like women and peasants, but let them become knights errant and seek glory in the halls of strangers so that they may win noble brides and prepare themselves to stand as guardians over the lands of their ladies. The Law of a Year and a Day: For all things that have persisted for a year and a day, let them continue forever no matter what their provenance. The Law of Blood: Only blood can pay for blood, never gold. Whether it be the blood of the guilty or the blood of the beasts that assail the Duchy makes no matter. In more straightforward language the Law of Love means that all noble titles are passed from father to son in-law and that sons are knighted and sent off to make a name for themselves elsewhere, the Law of a Thousand Nights and One means that anything that‘s been going on for a year and a day counts as legal even if it wasn‘t legal to begin with and the Law of Blood says that crimes are punished by corporal or capital punishment or by forcing the guilty to go off and kill monsters.

It is not clear if these four other laws complete the Seven Laws, or are lesser laws: The Law of the Breath of Man: **That which befalls the sons of men befalls beasts; even one thing befalls them: as the one dies, so dies the other; ineed, they have all one breath; so that a man has no preeminence above a beast: all shall die, and all shall perish, yet the just shall have precedence over the wicked. **The Law of the Lake: **Do not desecrate the Lady’s waters. Act swiftly and vengefully upon those who wish her ill. **The Law of Splintered Steel: When your opponents have been defeated, act both with justice and mercy. Slay not a maimed foe, slay not the unarmed and weak, and in bouts of honor, yield you’re your opponent is broken and defeated. The Law of Bread and Salt: After a man has eaten bread and salt at your table he shall enjoy guestright and you may not raise you hand against him.


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