Theo writes an excellent piece of Lunar customs and courtesies.
> Elaborate rules of courtesy have been written which divide acts into
> different lunar phases.
My three observations:
- It seems to me (by analogy with phases and magic) more likely the
divisions are "Full, Half, Crescent and Black," rather than "Full, Full
Half, Empty Half and Black."
- This is clearly adapting Carmanian legal terminology, and there is
probably a Carmanian predecessor code. Think of the Black & White Laws,
"Everything not Forbidden is Compulsory", and the five legal tiers of RW
Sharia law (which inspired the former).
- Probably most people in the Empire don't know anything about elaborate
written rules of courtesy. Though they do, of course, exist. And they may,
of course, be followed -- sans unnecessary elaborations -- far more widely
than they are read.
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