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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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| 464 | I know that vella was branded twice in Tribesmen. Are there any other instances of a slave being branded more than once in the books?
Answer
I will begin by noting that, as rare as it is, there is evidence that brands can be altered.
Many are the markets of Gor, and some are supplied by contraband merchandise, of dubious origins,
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and coffles of stolen slaves, sometimes with their brands altered.
Plunder of Gor    Book 34    Page 243
We then have the example of Elinor Brinton.
Even if you don’t count the three penalty brands she received at the hand of Rask of Treve, (Liar, Thief & Traitress) she was also branded with the Mark of Treve.
There is no evidence that her first brand was, in any way, removed, altered or obscured.
Disbelievingly, I looked at myself in the mirror. I touched again the mark on my thigh. I looked again at the red mark drawn in lipstick on the surface of the mirror. I beheld myself.
I knew almost nothing of these things, but there was no mistaking the lovely, deep, incised mark on my thigh.
Everything went black, and I collapsed to the rug before the mirror. I fainted.
I had been branded.
Captive of Gor    Book 7    Page 6
I screamed, and wept, and screamed.
Still the men did not release me.
Rask of Treve lifted the last iron from the fire. It was much larger, the letter at its termination some one and a half inches high. It, too, was white hot. I knew the brand. I had seen it, on Ena's thigh. It was the mark of Treve. Rask of Treve had decided that my flesh should bear that mark.
Captive of Gor    Book 7    Page 310
Margaret, in Book 32, mentions that she knows, should she lie to her master, he could, without a doubt, brand her as such.
"My master is no fool," I said. I had long sensed he was a man not only of formidable size and strength, and virility, and desire, but of formidable intellect, as well. I would have been frightened to lie to him, not simply because I was a slave but because I had the sense I would be helplessly transparent to him, that he could simply look through me and immediately discern in me the least particle of deceit or dissimulation. Also, he might, without a second thought, put the liar's brand in my thigh, marking me as a mendacious kajira.
Smugglers of Gor    Book 32    Page 540
Finally, Talena has been branded more than once but for the sake of time I did not search for all the quotes to prove this.
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