As I understand it, honour plays a similar role among the Orlanthi to contemporary contract. A person who is true to their word is accorded greater trust and higher status, than one who does not. IMO Humakt's Truth rune has the significance of trust and personal truthfulness, or honour, rather than that of true knowledge or wisdom.
Anyway if we go back to the huscarl example I agree that they don't hold land, but that makes them dangerous - they aren't stakeholders. They may have no kin ties. All they have is their fighting ability, hardly reassuring, and their word.
Sure the chief will vouch for them, but only because their word is good.
> Air gods have honorable intentions and beliefs?
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> Orlanth is honorable but he is not typical of air gods.
Ragnaglar, Vadrus and even Storm Bull are social outcasts in the Orlanthi pantheon. Orlanth is the typical air god, most of the others serve the didactic purpose of showing failings to avoid.
Andrew
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