rules_winter | Guesting Laws

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.