Rhyslin’s Four Rules
About a month ago, One of the Krynn Brothers penned his code of conduct and asked several of us to write about the equivalent codes from our world.
At first, I wasn’t sure that I wanted to do it because the World of Crann Na Beatha is still being created with each new book.
There are parts of the world that I haven’t explored yet and people that I haven’t written about. I don’t want to write rules or codes that would set the whole world in stone. I had thought about writing about the codes that the citizens of Nan Raointean Mora live by, but that would consist mostly of the mercenary code.
After weeks of agonizing over this, I remembered that there is a code mentioned in “Voyage of the Dawn Breaker.” In this scene, Rhyslin is trying to teach Rana (the daughter of one of his bonds) the code of conduct for those who live in his house. Since he’s so emphatic about these four rules, there is an assumption that these are also part of the code of conduct for the citize…
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