ANST - New topic

Russell Kinder russmax at cowboy.net
Thu Sep 4 12:57:58 PDT 1997


Tim Lozos wrote:
>         2: Do you give a point of honor to your opponent?  Arm or leg him,
> and would you give up your own? What if he's a superior fighter?  An
> inferior one? Would you want the same treatment? What if giving up an
> advantage *is* an advantage to you? What about giving an advantage to a less
> talented person to start the bout? (ie: fight offhanded against Joe Newcomer
> in his first tourney) Is that insulting to the other person?  What about
> accepting an advantage from a more talented person?

Sir Galen mentioned this, but I feel it deserves some additional time.
Is it honorable to yield when your opponent has taken one of your arms
or legs?

My notion of a tourney is a contest of honor and skill against comrades
in arms. I do not think of us as being out there trying to "kill" one
another. We need one another in our war against Trimaris, after all. If
my opponent has taken one of my limbs, then s/he has already proven he
has superior skill in that list. It isn't necessary for my or his honor
to make him kill me too. And how realistic is it to fight off of the
ground, anyway?

I realize this is a more late period "civilized" approach to honor that
is not necessarily consistent with earlier Nordic and Germanic personas.
Thus, I never feel my opponents honor to be less if they doesn't hold
the same notions of honorable behavior that I do. The Norse, especially,
are not as squeamish about killing one another in their games and
contest.

Lord Guillaume de Troyes in Mooneschadowe
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