thakur's

This relationship is most obvious to non-Sandemans in the custom that any children a 'na fathers are considered the thakur's, and their use of the familiar mode of High War Speech.

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The 'na has his right cheek tattooed with a mark of his thakur's choice.

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The only acceptable reasons for disobeying a thakur's will are to preserve his honor or his life, with the thakur's honor taking precedence.

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His thakur's approval and enjoyment of watching such things meant he should as well, and he seemed to be making the adjustment.

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It was generous of the gods, he thought, to make even such a drastic change to his thakur's values and standards so easy for him.

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As soon as they were gone, Keith got his first experience of Family informality; within minutes, he was the only one in the room with clothes on, and he seemed to sense his thakur's desire that he also be nude.

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He might not be able to take part himself just yet, though the men on his thakur's team were beginning to seem more desirable ...

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"His face shows he has never sworn personal fealty or won the right to use his thakur's name.

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