Tapani Oaths
Questioning a Vor’s word is a spectacularly messy way to quickly pick a big fight. Violence is likely, killing is a possibility, scandal is a certainty. In the past, people have apparently been mobbed by a city’s worth of commoners for questioning the local Vor’s word. Vor don’t give their solemn promises to much, as a general rule, because they’ll move heaven and the Galaxy to keep any promise made.
Deliberately breaking a promise is grounds for exile, forced bankruptcy, and being stripped of all basic legal rights as a sentient. Not necessarily in that order, either.
Commoners’ oaths of fealty to their local Barons and Counts are specifically designed with termination clauses, so that the commoner has the right to pick up and move to a different Barony or even a different Province and swear fealty to that noble instead. It’s a power-balancing measure to ensure that no high-ranking noble abuses her authority or privileges.
Natunda, Festival Week, 12720
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