The only way to protect innocent people from the blood feud that runs between my family and A'Ran's was to use honor.
And yet he knew war was not so simple between two clans with a history of blood feud as theirs had.
It is state-law; alike self-help, blood-feud, marriage by capture, are absent; though family solidarity, district responsibility, ordeal, the lex talionis, are primitive features that remain.
They had all along maintained a virtual independence of the Turks and until quite recently retained their medieval customs, living in fortified towers and practising the vendetta or blood-feud.
A blood-feud arose between them and a line of Afghan princes who had established themselves among the mountains of Ghor.