Points of Honor
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A Point of honor is where when engaged in battle with an opponent you match limb loss damage to your opponent to share their disadvantage.
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Examples
- Fighter A. Comes uppon fighter B. Who is portraying a missing leg. Fighter A strikes their own leg drops down to a knee sharing the injury with their opponent.
- Fighter A. Comes uppon fighter B. Who is portraying a slashed arm, Fighter A drops one weapon or shield and engages fighter B with one arm.
also
- Fighter A. legs fighter B. Fighter A. backs up from fighter B. and then strikes their own leg and rops to a leg mimicing fighter B.
Issues
Damage or Pretend Pretend Damage
Some fighters will portray a point of honor instead of injuring themselves. Or simply pretend to be injured and then if they defeat their opponent they magicly get the limb back. This is against the spirit of the rules of the game since fighters can not pretent do be injured or dead (see Book of War rules).
When it comes to arms this is not neccissarily an issue since arms don't have to be behind the back to gain the disadvantage. This however does bring up the issue of the limbed opponent only has one arm while the fighter portaying the point of honor has both arms and can still sacrifice an arm, and perform a magic switch, which in some peoples oppinion is not truely protraying a point of honor.
With legs this is a seriouse issue becuase you can not really pretend to be legged according to the rules of the sport.
Injuring yourself
Sometimes injuring yourself in the course of a large field battle doesn't make sense, because of this most fighters will not take points of honor durring a field battle.
Also it brings up the question can a fighter injur themself?
Reasoning
Fair Fight
Some fighter give opponents points of honor because the believe it to be honorable. Some fighters take their own leg because they believe the rules of the sport are broken and that legged opponents have an advantage over a standing opponent tachticaly.
Respect
Other fighters give points of Honor as a form of respect to other fighters that they admire or share peearage/title with.
Improvement
Some fighters believe that sharing a point of honor will help them improve in fighter skill. The idea is you use it in practice and then when you really are in an important fight like a tournament or a major battle that you will regain a new advantage. This line of thought is often considered false since if one were to follow it regularly then they would not have the experiance of fighting a limbed fighter and would not understand the tricks and nuances of limbed fighting styles.
