THE LORE · THE VALE
The Marrow-Oath
The Marrow Lances' binding contract-rite: swear it over coin and you are bound to the work — and the company will hunt anyone who breaks it.
More than a handshake and less than magic, the Marrow-Oath is sworn marrow-to-marrow: a drop of blood on the contract, the company's name spoken, the coin taken. Breaking a Marrow-Oath isn't a crime to the Vale's courts — it's a debt to the Lances, and they collect it themselves. The whole reputation of the company, the only reason five warring powers will all hire the same swords, rests on the rite being unbreakable. The Broken Lances are proof it isn't, and that is precisely the wound.
KIND
custom
DOMAIN
contract law / martial honor
Connected
Type Fields
kindcustom
domaincontract law / martial honor
tenetsSwear marrow-to-marrow over the coin, The work is the oath; the oath is the company, A broken oath is the Lances' debt to collect, in blood
All Relationships (4)
references
- ←The Marrow Lances — The rite the whole company's worth rests on.
- ←The Broken Lances — The oath they have started to break.
- ←The Old Lances — The oath they would kill to keep.
- ←Reddin Vasa — He swore it three weeks ago and still believes it whole.
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