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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yora" data-source="post: 6017982" data-attributes="member: 6670763">For my setting, I developed a system in which a persons clan is his resumee and his reputation. People will asume that the chief will only give permision to leave home and visit other clans to people who he trusts will not cause any problem and represent the clan in a good light. Also, if anything happens, he will be held accounable for the actions of his subjects.So when you come to the land of another clan that holds your clan in high esteem, you are welcome as a guest and shown hospitility. If your clan is known for behaving rude or threatening, then everyone will assume that you will be the same. Either the chieft is too weak to control his subjects, or he is okay with the way they behave themselves. In either case, you can not trust people from his clan because their chief will not punish their crimes and also pay no compensation for any damage they caused. You don't want such people in your villages, so they are not welcome.If you don't have a clan, you better have a very good explaination. Because people who have been kicked out of their own clan must have done something terrible.I think the advantage of this is that you still can have situations where you find a village of complete strangers who don't know you at all, but they won't chase you away or kill you on sight, but rather give you an opportunity to rest and resuply. If they have heard of your clan and trust its good reputation.But at the same time, you can still have gangs of warriors who will attack you on sight no questions asked, or you catch spies in your own lands or that of an allied clan and they are executed immediately. Because they are from clans that are at war with each other and have long and brutal feuds over vital natural resources.And it's not based on race or nationalty. Any clan is its own entity and you can easily have a human clan join a fight between multiple elven clans. Those elves have no problem with hating other elves with a passion and at the same time being best friends with humans or dwarves.</blockquote>

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