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Gorean Book Quote Requests
Requests 1-173 were asked and answered back when there were only 25 books.
Also, some of the early questions were unintentionally truncated and cannot be restored. However, the answers are shown in their totality.
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| 158 | Thank you Master Fogaban Your help was greatly needed, this girl has a new question to place at Your feet.
this girl needs information on the Fighting Hearts...is it a group in the red savages or is it an Inn named the Fighting Hearts Inn?
Answer
The words "fighting" and "hearts" only appear together once in the books. So it is indeed a society of the Red Savages, not an Inn.
Fogaban
"Two societies are represented among the Kaiila here," said Grunt. "Most belong to the All Comrades, and one belongs to the Yellow-Kaiila Riders. The fellow in the background, with his war shield in its case, is a member of the Yellow-Kaiila Riders. That may be told by the stylized yellow kaiila print, outlined in red, on the flanks, of his beast, over the red horizontal bars."
I nodded. The red horizontal bar, or bars, as the case is, is commonly associated with the Kaiila, the Cutthroat tribe. There were many coup marks, I noted, on the snout and forequarters of the fellow's kaiila.
"That is a prestigious society," said Grunt. "Only tried and proven warriors, with many coups, and many expeditions of war and kaiila stealing, are admitted to it."
"The sign for the All Comrades," I said, "is the heart and lance."
"Yes," said Grunt. "They are sometimes known, too, from the sign, as the Fighting Hearts. The society name, however, more strictly, translates as the All Comrades."
"I see," I said. The weapon ingredient in the insignia left little doubt in my mind as to the sort of enterprise in which such fellows were most likely to be comrades.
"Cheerfulness is indicated by the height of the heart, alongside the lance," said Grunt.
"I see," I said. A heart placed on a horizontal base line, of course, suggested a heart on the ground, or sadness. Grunt had taught me much in the last few days. I could even, now, pick up a little of what was said in Kaiila.
Savages of Gor Book 17 Page 314
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