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Mind you, that's awful close to Belru's (Pacts)
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I'm sorry, who wrote the Oath of Stilldeath? Was it some hedge-goddess that's been birthing cats and talking with tortoises? Or was it the being who dumped twenty might and made those as great as gods make a voluntary promise in the memory of fallen siblings?! Bitch, you gotta push if you wanna be a pusher!

More seriously, I was leaning more towards oaths as personal pacts rather than pacts beholden to others. It's less contracts of service and more like oaths of silence, honesty, or something similar. People can take oaths and break them, but they are maintained with personal motivation rather than obligation. Toun's self-improvement philosophy feeds into that with a monastic bent, and when I finally get enough time to write more, that's how I plan for mortals to be influenced by him. There will be some overlap, but not too much, I should think.