by Fogaban
Caste of Foresters
Here are relevant references from the Books where the Caste of Foresters is mentioned.
It is not meant to be anything other than the facts of the matter. Arrive at your own conclusions.
I wish you well,
Fogaban
"How is it that a forester," I said, "claims as his the Home Stone of Port Kar?"
"I once lived there," he said, "before I took caste. At that time, long ago, there were few, if any, castes in Port Kar. She had no Home Stone. She was a den of thieves, as it was said, a lair of cutthroats, and such, a stinking maze of canals at the marshes, squalid and foul, and malignant."
"And without honor," I said.
"Yes," said he, "and without honor."
"I think once she had no Home Stone," I said.
"That is true," he said. "Can you conceive of a city, a town, a village, a hamlet, without a Home Stone?"
"There are probably such places," I said.
"Then," said he, "that changed. In a moment of crisis, in a time of confusion and terror, when a vulnerable Port Cos awaited the onslaught of the combined fleets of Tyros and Cos, the word spread, the startling mysterious word, a word like the flash of lightning, a word striking through the darkness, a word as mighty as the rallying of a thousand battle horns, as swift as the flight of a tarn, that there was now a Home Stone in Port Kar."
"Jewel of Gleaming Thassa," I said.
"Tatrix of the Sea," said he.
"So you chose caste, that of the foresters, and came here, to serve the Home Stone hundreds of pasangs away?"
"The Home Stone of Port Kar may be served here as well as at the gulf, as well as in the shops of the arsenal, as well as on the wharves, as well as on the decks and benches of her ships."
"True," I said.
"I am fond of the forests," he said. "Most are born to their caste. I chose mine."
"Some do," I said.
Swordsmen of Gor Book 29 Page 33
