This is a very important point!
While the Orlanthi might shy away from judicial execution (it just
stinks of the Fire Tribe's tyranny to me...) they are a people who
enshrine violence as a right. Problems that cry for a violent solution
can be solved by an appeal to unaligned sources of violence that a
surround a clan (Uroxi will happily jump on Chaos worshippers and lack
affiliations and kin-ties; Humakti will probably kill anyone that
needs to be killed and also - if unsheathed - lack kin-ties).
However! invoking these forces against a fellow clan-member is a Big
Deal. And clearly, it should be!
Humakti, Uroxi, and other assorted lunatics from outside the clan are
not a judicial alternative to the problems of a community struggling
against itself. If you can just defer these serious matters to the
judex, tribune, or sirdar then where is the drama? The Orlanthi
struggle with the pros and cons of the centrality of clan are an
important and distinguishing cultural feature (which makes Sartar's
efforts to transcend it in some sense all the more impressive).
--
John Machin
"Nothing is more beautiful than to know the All."
- Athanasius Kircher, 'The Great Art of Knowledge'.
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