Content authored by: Ariane (Character: TBD)

The worst thing you can be as a Varangian is an “Outlaw” or an Exile. These are very culturally-contextual terms!

To be an Outlaw is to be literally outside the laws and customs of the culture. No hospitality, baseline level of respect or decency, no support network, etc. If someone kills you, there is no blood money owed.

An Exile is still bound by the laws and customs of the culture, but they are forced to live away / are cut off from the people who exiled them. Exile is a sliding scale of community unit to the entire culture and everything in-between. Blood money may still be owed if they are killed, it depends.

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