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Only a father can set the requirements of a boy's manhood ritual. To prevent unnecessarily difficult or degrading requirements, the son chooses a mediator. His duties limited to stating objections only, a mediator cannot make suggestions to either father or son. If the father is unable to set the requirements, the patriarch decides. A father consults no one but a patriarch. Even then custom obligates the patriarch to ask questions only. In setting requirements, only the father decides and in this the father is alone.—Rituals Before the Fall, by Keeping Track.
Flying Arrow, Conqueror of the Northern Empire, seventh Emperor of the Arrow Dynasty, frowned at the speaker and fidgeted in his seat.
The Sorcerer Exploding Illusion was recounting what he had heard of the conversation between t
