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 Home Stone LawThese are relevant references from the Books where Home Stone Law is mentioned. I make no pronouncements on these matters, but report them as I find them. Arrive at your own conclusions. I wish you well, Fogaban Where a man sets his Home Stone, he claims, by law, that land for himself. Tarnsman of Gor Book 1 Page 27 Whereas I was of high caste and he of low, yet in his own hut he would be, by the laws of Gor, a prince and sovereign, for then he would be in the place of his own Home Stone. Indeed, a cringing whelp of a man, who would never think of lifting his eyes from the ground in the presence of a member of one of the high castes, a crushed and spiritless churl, an untrustworthy villain or coward, an avaricious and obsequious pedlar often becomes, in the place of his own Home Stone, a veritable lion among his fellows, proud and splendid, generous and bestowing, a king be it only in his own den. Outlaw of Gor Book 2 Page 29 "But why has this been done to me?" I asked. "It seems unworthy of the hand of a Ubar." "Have you forgotten," asked he, "the law of the Home Stone?" I gasped. "Better surely banishment than torture and impalement." "I do not understand," said Elizabeth. "In the year 10,110, more than eight years ago, a tarnsman of Ko-ro-ba purloined the Home Stone of the city." "It was I," I told Elizabeth. She shuddered, for she knew the penalties that might attach to such a deed. "As Ubar," said Hup, "it would ill become Marlenus to betray the law of the Home Stone of Ar." "But he gave no explanation," I protested. "An Ubar gives no accounting," said Hup. "We fought together," said I, "back to back. I helped him to regain his throne. I was once the companion daughter." "I say because I know him," said Hup, "though I might die from the saying of it, Marlenus is grieved. He is much grieved. But he is Ubar. He is Ubar. More than man, more than Marlenus, he is Ubar of my city, of Ar itself." I looked at him. "Would you," asked Hup, "betray the Home Stone of Ko-ro-ba?" My hand leaped to the hilt of my sword. Hup smiled. "Then," said he, "do not think Marlenus, whatever the price or cost, his grief, his dream, would betray that of Ar." "I understand," I said. "If a Ubar does not respect the law of the Home Stone, what man shall?" "None," said I. "It is hard to be Ubar." |       
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