Guesting Laws

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Guesting Laws

If you act as a a guest you must:

• Cause no harm physical or honorable to your host or those they have declared as their guests.
• Treat your host with respect.
• Abide by any rules set forth by your host at the outset of being declared guest.

Hosts obligations:

• See to the needs of guests
• Do not harm (physically or honorably) guests
• Do not allow harm to come to guests by others

Conflicting claims or disputes between guests can be resolved with a challenge.  The two opposing parties may select champions to compete and the winner earns the support of the hosting party. A refusal to take the challenge is an automatic forfeit. This can be a blood challenge (trial by combat) or a game of some sort.

Defeat in Battle:
All guesting laws also apply to those taken prisoner as well, if the caught party agrees to a peaceful surrender and to become the capturing party’s vassal. 

• Their life is the capturing party’s to do with as they please as long as they don’t starve them or make them an oathbreaker
• The new vassal must do as ordered. 
• Those they previous served can only release them by paying a ransom.