Without the law, there would be chaos. If there is chaos, there cannot
be
society. To prevent chaos society creates the law, but there are
those
who choose to break it. Break the law and pay the penalty. Listed
below
are some common penalties in Gorean society for breaking the law.
Also
listed here are some of the common laws and traditions.
bastinado
-(noun): a punishment not otherwise described, however the earth
translation is a beating, especially with a stick or cudgel. The beating may
be specifically to the soles of the feet.
Book 25: Magicians of Gor, page 445beheading
-(noun): this ancient form of execution is seen as an option when the
offender is of the same Home Stone; it consists of stripping, beating and
beheading the offender and is considered a merciful death.
Book 23: Renegades of Gor, page 14-15boards, chained on
-(noun): a ancient modality of execution that involves the person being
chained, by collar and shackles, on parallel upright boards. Like the
punishment of hanging from an iron collar, the victim may take two to three
days to die; these structures are most common in harbor cities near the
wharves.
Book 23: Renegades of Gor, page 14-15brand, penalty
-(noun): small 1/4 inch brands that mark a convicted liar, thief, traitor etc.
Book 7: Captive of Gor, page 310couching law
-(noun): any Free woman who voluntarily 'couches' with the slave of
another may be taken as slave herself by the Master of the slave she
'couched' with.
Book 25: Magicians of Gor, page 7 and page 303dung sack
-(noun): used to contain bosk (or any) dung after it has been raked up or
collected; also employed as a punishment when slave girls are forced to
'spend a night in the dung sack'.
Book 4: Nomads of Gor, page 285exile, ritual of
-(noun): a man being exiled for whatever reason is publicly refused bread
and salt, and is then ordered to leave the city by sundown under penalty of
death. The exiled one may not come within ten pasangs of the city from
that day forward.
Book 1: Tarnsman of Gor, page 216Frame of Humiliation
-(noun): wooden frame to which the condemned person is tied before it is
set adrift in the Vosk River so that he may die of exposure and/or
dehydration if he is not eaten by tharlarion or other carnivorous reptiles.
Book 1: Tarnsman of Gor, pages 136 and 138Free Companionship
-(noun): the closest equivalent to marriage on Gor. A woman is bought
from her parents and is considered a Free Companion, even though she
may not have been consulted in the arrangement. A woman, may agree of
her own free will to be a Free Companion, and a Master may free his
slave for Free Companionship. A man may have only one Free
Companion at a time, but the relationship is considered binding, sundered
usually, only by death as long as it is annually renewed.. A Gorean free
woman does not change her name in the ceremony of the Free
Companionship. From the Gorean point of view, the wife of Earth
occupies a status which is higher than that of the slave, but lower than that
of the Free Companion.
Book 1: Tarnsman of Gor, page 216
Book 2: Outlaw of Gor, page 54
Book 8: Hunters of Gor, page 9
Book 9: Marauders of Gor, page 14
Book 13: Explorers of Gor, pages 365-366garbage death
-(noun): the death for a slave where a slave is bound naked, and thrown to
canal urts, as in Port Kar.
Book 10: Tribesmen of Gor, page 313girl catch
-(noun): a contest to settle disputes where young women free and slave
are captured by the opposing village within a boundaried area.
Book 12: Beast of Gor, page 41
Book 25: Magicians of Gor, page 40Impalement
-(verb): the impalement of a person on the pole lance or spear with the
dying body raised for all to view.
Book 1: Tarnsman of Gor, page 157iron collars, hung in
-(noun): an ancient modality of execution that involves the offenders being
chained and suspended by iron collars on posts, taking two to three days
to die.
-Book 23: Renegades of Gor, page 14Kneel to the Whip
-(position): this command orders a slave to kneel, bowing her head to her
knees, her wrists crossed under her as though bound. The position is
intended to expose her back to the whip.
Book 3: Priest-Kings of Gor, page 201 and 202
Book 7: Captive of Gor, page 200
Book 15: Rogue of Gor, page 21
Book 18: Savages of Gor, page 137manumission
-(noun): the documented, legal freeing of a slave.
Book 25: Magicians of Gor, page 460self-contract, limited, slave
-(noun): an arrangement wherein a Free Woman contracts to be an
experimental slave for a period of time ranging from one night to a year.
Her documents will contain a specified termination date.
Book 18: Blood Brothers of Gor, page 101slave box, punishment
-(noun): small square (3x3') iron box with a door having a viewing aperture
of 7 inches x1/2 inches in the middle and a pass-through of 12x2 inches at
the base; a punishment device for slaves.
Book 7: Captive of Gor, pages 313-314staking, exposure death by
-(noun): A death from exposure used in Klima for those attempting to
escape. As the term implies, a person is staked to the salt crusts,
spread-eagled, until the heat of the Tahari sun kills.
Book 10: Tribesmen of Gor, page 265staking, sleen death or punishment by
-(noun): an form of execution or punishment used when a Master is done
with a slave; he may stake her for sleen, by staking ankles and legs widely
apart between two stakes. The slave is blindfolded and cut on the thigh to
draw blood, smearing it across her body, to attract the animal..
Book 8: Hunters of Gor, page 230 -231tarn death
-(noun): each limb of a person is attached by rope or chain to different
tarns and the person is flown aloft then torn apart.
Book 1: Tarnsman of Gor, page 158tharlarion, torn apart by
-(noun): a form of execution that involves ropes being tied to the offender's
wrists and ankles. These bindings are attached to two different tharlarion
which are then drawn in opposite directions.
Book 23: Renegades of Gor, page 14tharlarion, trampled by
-(noun): form of execution. The offender is bound before a tharlarion and
trampled to death or until maimed.
-Book 23: Renegades of Gor, page 14torturers, clan of
-(noun): found only among the Wagon Peoples, they are trained as
carefully as scribes or physicians in the arts of detaining life. Though some
are famous for services rendered to Initiates and Ubars, they are always
hooded. The hood is removed only when the sentence is death, so that
only condemned men have seen what lies beneath it.
Book 4: Nomads of Gor, pages 9 and 10use discipline
-(noun): a punishment which avows the free man's prerogative to sexually
use a house-owned girl as discipline. There are examples which state that
these rights are governed by a Code, wherein a girl may not be used or
disciplined without the permission of her owner.
Book 11: Slave Girl of Gor, page 226
Book 12: Beasts of Gor, page 174
Book 25: Magicians of Gor, pages 329-330wagon, justice
-(noun): a form of execution which involved tar and tallow, the contents
from a wagon's grease bucket, and fire; a detailed description is not
given, but it is noted as evidence of the Gorean's distaste of criminals.
Book 23: Renegades of Gor, page 22wergild
-(noun): a ransom or bribe. A man who is an outlaw can redeem himself by
paying a wergild to the official who sets it. Once paid he is 'pardoned' no
longer an outlaw.
Book 9: Marauders of Gor, page 94Yellow Pool of Turia
-(noun): housed in a magnificent chamber in the House of Saphrar is a
marble basin filled with a brilliant, yellow fluid. Beneath it's oddly shifting
surface is a collection of threads and granules in a transparent bag of
intertwined, writhing filaments and spheres, imbedded in a darkish, yellow
jelly and walled in by a translucent membrane. The pool is a living,
breathing monster that slowly digests it's victims. The Yellow Pool was
destroyed by Kamchak after he conquered Turia
Book 4: Nomads of Gor, pages 202-213 and 322-323
