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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 5689695" data-attributes="member: 8835">I think what you're getting at here, which is why I highlighted it, is that there is a trust factor.  It's not just that you surrender, but that I also treat you as well as your station requires.For a peasant, when I accept your surrender, I might tell you to go home and swear to never raise arms again.For a knight, I may put him up in a nice tent, underguard, but at ease.As such, IF as your captor, I treat you well per your station,  there is understanding that you are to wait until release or ransom or trial.  You certainly aren't entitled to escaping (you surrendered, which effectively means you give your word that you submit).  You aren't entitled to challenge me to a duel, because you already lost that fight when you had to surrender.If I treat you like crap, and I have plans to execute you, given that you surrendered to save lives, unless the terms were your life for those of your men, then generally, you have a right to escape because I have not honored the terms of your surrender (don't kill you,otherwise you might as well kept fighting).</blockquote>