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When the fog lifted...
There were just three of them making their way towards the city of Kamras after having heard about the city falling due
to bickering among the masses.
One was a fallen warrior, one was a woman who had lost it all, the other a slave. Eventually a rope maker would join
them and soon they would be at Kamras's gates wondering what world waited for them.
Kamras had been a man who fought Turia with a great many different weapons, those weapons were found in various places
throughout the city. Now the weapons are safe in one spot, the homestone reclaimed and life begins again!
Hail Kamras!
Main Entrance to the city of Kamras
Secondary Gate Entrance to Kamras
Kamras Beach along the shores of the Thassa
City Port
INN BETWEEN the Inn in
which Kamras housed many refugees throught history
Kamras Inn
Kamras City Hall
Kajiras Tavern
KMRS Main Hall
KMRS WARRIOR HALL
Oceans View Theater
Kamras Kaiila Stables
Medical Clinic of Kamras
Anvil Arena
Tarn Cots
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The Common Laws of Most Gorean cities is best
said by Norman:
As it is written by Norman, the laws of the City of Kamras will
be followed. All punishments will fit the nature of the crime and will be RP'd out accordingly. Know this
before you play!
There is a saying on Gor that the laws of a city extend no further
than its walls.
Outlaw of Gor
Executions as Written
by Norman
The form execution varies. It includes being hung in
iron collars, in which death might take as long as two or three days, chaining to the boards, in which the victim is fastened
on upright boards mounted on posts, which is often used in port cities, impalement is often the punishment in the country,
with the pole being set up near a crossroads, where it will be readily seen, trampled or torn apart by tharlarion. If the
criminal shares a Home Stone with the victim, a more humane punishment is inflicted: the criminal is stripped, tied to a post,
beaten with rods, then beheaded. "Chain them and hang them in collars at the inn!" said a fellow..."Chain them on the boards,"
cried another..."Let them be trampled by tharlarion," said a fellow..."No, let them be torn apart by them," said another...
If one shares a Home Stone with the victim, of course, the
punishment is often more humane. A common punishment where this mitigating feature obtains is to strip the victim, tie him
to a post, beat him with rods and then behead him. This, like the hanging in chains, the exposure on boards, and such, is
a very ancient modality of execution
Renegades of Gor
Citizenship of a City as Written by Norman
The laws of citizenship vary by city, but generally, a
free person is a citizen of a given city only if he can reach it in one day's march. There may be certain other requirements,
such as swearing to the Home Stone, attending public ceremonies and assemblies, and the annual taking of auspices. This gives
some idea of what the ambit of a city might be, and reinforces the notion that the laws of a city might, indeed, in some fashion,
extend beyond its walls, though this does not excuse trying to claim a woman by the laws of Port Kar while you're in Thentis,
for instance, or apply Ar's Couching Laws in Port Cos.
Dancers of Gor
This territory is called an ambit. (Old English, from the Latin
ambitus) which might encompass nearby villages and towns and it can be assumed that a city exerts a certain amount of control
over the laws of those districts, though there are no exactly drawn borders. "Yet there is a hierarchy of Home Stones, one
might say, and two soldiers who would cut one another down with their steel blades for an acre of fertile ground will fight
side by side to the death for the Home Stone of their village or of the city within whose ambit their village lies."
Tarnsmen of Gor
It is not unusual for a Gorean city to have several villages
in its vicinity, these customarily supplying the meat and produce. These villages may or may not be tributary to the city.
It is common, of course, for a city to protect those villages, whether they are tributary to the city or not, which make use
of its market. If a village markets in a given city, that city, by Gorean custom, stands as its shield, a relationship which,
of course, works to the advantage of both the villages and city, the city receiving produce in its markets, the villages receiving
the protection of the city's soldiers. The policy of Fortress of Saphronicus, extending its hegemony politically over its
nearby villages, even to the extent of extracting tribute in kind, is not unprecedented on Gor, but, on the other hand, is
not the general rule. Most villages are free villages.
Slave Girl of Gor
Companionship as Written by Norman
There is no marriage, as we know it, on Gor, but there is the
institution of the Free Companionship, which is its nearest correspondent. Surprisingly enough, a woman who is bought from
her parents, for tarns or gold, is regarded as a Free Companion, even though she may not have been consulted in the transaction.
More commendably, a free woman may herself, of her own free will, agree to be such a companion. And it is not unusual for
a master to free one of his slave girls in order that she may share the full privileges of a Free Companionship. One may have,
at a given time, an indefinite number of slaves, but only one Free Companion. Such relationships are not entered into lightly,
and they are normally sundered only by death. Occasionally the Gorean, like his brothers in our world, perhaps even more frequently,
learns the meaning of love.
Outlaw of Gor
The next to appear before Bila Huruma were two members of the
nobility, a man and his companion. He complained of her that she had been unwilling to please him. By one word and a stroke
of his hand between them Bila Huruma dissolved their companionship....
Explorers of Gor
"It is long since you have been the Free Companion of Talena,
daughter of Marlenus," said Samos. "The Companionship, not renewed annually, is at an end. And you were once enslaved."
I looked at the board, angrily. It was true that the Companionship,
not renewed, had been dissolved in the eyes of Gorean law. It was further true that, had it not been so, the Companionship
would have been terminated abruptly when one or the other of the pledged companions fell slave.
Hunters of Gor
Think before you go into Debt As Written by Norman
The penalty for debt is enslavement, for male or female. Male
slaves are usually debtors or criminals
Beast of Gor
Also, a female debtor, in many cities, is subject to judicial
enslavement, she then coming rightlessly and categorically, identically with any other slave, into the ownership of the creditor
Magicians of Gor
How to Enter a City As Written by Norman
“As was wise I avoided cities in my long journey, though
I passed several, for to enter a city without permission or without satisfactory reason is tantamount to a capital crime,
and the punishment is usually a swift and brutal impalement. Pikes on the walls of Gorean cities are often surmounted with
the remains of unwelcome guests”.
Outlaw of Gor
"As we do have the yellow ostraka and our permits do not permit
us to remain in the city after dark," said Marcus, "I think we should venture now to the sun gate." Marcus was the sort of
fellow who was concerned about such things, being arrested, impaled, and such.
Magician of Gor
Assassins bearing the mark of the black dagger on their forehead
are permitted entrance into a city without interference. “Kurrus, of the Caste of Assassins, entered the great gate
of Ar. Guardsmen did not detain him, for he wore on his forehead the mark of the black dagger...When he of the Caste of Assassins
has been paid his gold and has received his charge he affixes on his forehead that sign, and he may enter whatever city he
pleases, and none may interfere with his work”.
Assassin of Gor
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The Seriousness of a Homestone as Written by Norman
To claim a Home Stone as one's own when it is not is a serious
offense among Goreans....
Slave Girl of Gor
When one does not have a Home Stone, it is possible to become
a citizen of a town/city by being permitted in a public ceremony to kiss the Home Stone of the town/city.
"Why would one think of her in the terms of a Ubara?" I asked.
"Sworn from Marlenus, she is no longer his daughter."
"I am not a scribe of the law," he said. "I do not know."
"I do
not think she has a Home Stone," I said.
"Gnieus Lelius permitted her to kiss the Home Stone," he said. "It was done in
a public ceremony. She is once again a citizeness of Ar."
"Gnieus Lelius seems a generous, noble fellow," I said.
Mercenaries of Gor
“I am surprised to hear such sentiments,” I said,
“from those who must once have held and kissed the Home Stone of Ar.” This was a reference to the citizenship
ceremony which, following the oath of allegiance to the city, involves an actual touching of the city’s Home Stone.
This may be the only time in the life of a citizen of the city that they actually touch the Home Stone. In Ar, as in many
Gorean cities, citizenship is confirmed in a ceremony of this sort. Nonperformance of this ceremony, upon reaching intellectual
majority, can be a cause for expulsion from the city. The rationale seems to be that the community has a right to expect allegiance
from its members.
Vagabonds of Gor
Murder on Gor as Written by Norman
The penalty for murder is impalement, even if the murder
is committed in a place other than the murderer's Home Stone. "Menicius!" he cried. It was he who slew the Warrior of Thentis.
Not I!" "It was you who gave the order," I said. "...."Well," said I, "will it be my steel or the impaling spear of Ar's Justice?"
Assassins of Gor
Spies Among Cities? As Written by Norman
Castration, followed by torture and impalement, is a punishment
commonly inflicted on spies.
Vagabonds of Gor
The Seriousness of Theft As Written By Norman
Theft of a Home Stone is punishable by death, general impalement
preceded by lengthy torture, or the tarn death, in which the victim is bound hand and foot to two tarns, lifted 100 feet in
the air, and at a prearranged signal, torn apart as the birds fly in opposite directions.
Tarnsmen of Gor
Theft of another's property is a crime. Punishment for the
first offense is generally notching of the ear. Second offense depends on the sex of the offender...a male loses his left
hand and both feet, a female is generally enslaved (for instance, in Lydius,
Hunters of Gor
"Her ear," I said. "Her ear was notched." Rim and Thurnock
laughed. "A thief," said Thurnock....I suddenly recognized the girl. It was she who had cut my purse earlier in the day, the
sensuous little wench, whose ear had been notched...I well knew what the punishment was for a Gorean female, following her
second conviction for theft
Hunters of Gor
Treason and it's Punishment
as Written by Norman
The penalty for treason is impalement or hanging
for a man, sometimes enslavement for a woman. "You have been found guilty of treason against your city and are under the sentence
of impalement," said Aemilianus.
Renegades of Gor
“.....and, Her mother, before her capture, I had
gathered, had been important, having been the confirmation treasurer of one of Torcadino's commercial councils, the Spice
Council. She had also, in her position, I had gathered, and doubtless by her influence and acts, supported the cause of Cos.
...however, aside from all such considerations, was a citizens of Torcadino, and Torcadino had been sworn to the cause of
Ar. She had, it seemed, for whatever reason, presumably opportunism or greed, betrayed the pledge of her Home Stone. In the
case of a man this can be a capital offense. She was not a man, however but a female. It was thus, doubtless, that she had
not been placed on a proscription list, but only on a seizure list. It was her sex which had saved her. Had she been a man
she would have been hung.
Mercenaries of Gor
Hidden in a Cavern within the Mountains and Heavily
guarded by specially trained Swordsmen sits the Homestone of Kamras
Kamras: Kamras was a Turian citizen, of the Caste of Warriors. He was a Captain,
the Champion of Turia as well as a plenipotentiary to the Ubar, Phanius Turmus. A plenipotentiary is a diplomat, often with
much authority provided to him. He was a large, strong man with large wrists and long black hair. He had two long, thin scars
on his face, possibly scars created by a quiva. Until the events of Nomads of Gor, Kamras had never lost a battle at
the Love Wars. But, he then faces Kamchak at the First Stake for the fate of Aphris of Turia. Using the gladius, which most
thought Kamchak had no skill in using, the two men fought. And Kamras soon realized that Kamchak was quite expert with the
short sword. Kamchak defeated Kamras, winning Aphris, but Kamchak chose not to kill Kamras. Later, when Turia was conquered,
Kamras was enslaved but was later freed.
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