Honor, in the power’s eyes, was about oaths. But there was a darker side to it. How many men had stabbed someone they loved because of “honor”? How many wars had been started because of an insult to “honor”? How much anger in the world had been caused by a belief in “honor”? The power accepted those definitions of it. It was the power of oaths and the pride that men bore at being thought of as men of oaths.
