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Purpose
When an individual captures a girl for his own uses, he does
not always mark her, though it is commonly done. On the other hand, the
professional slaver, as a business practice, almost always brands his
chattels, and it is seldom that an unbranded girl ascends the block.
The brand is to be distinguished from the collar, though both are designation
of slavery. The primary significance of the collar is that it identifies the
master and his city. The collar of a given girl may be changed countless
times, but the brand continues throughout to bespeak her status.
Outlaw of Gor, page 189
"I have five brands," said the metal worker,
"the common Kajira brand, the Dina, the Palm, the mark of Treve, the
mark of Port Kar."
Explorers of Gor, page 70
Eta smiled. She pointed to her brand. "Kan-lara,"
she said. She pointed to my brand. "Kan-lara Dina," she said. I
repeated these words.
Slave Girl of Gor, page 80
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Bond-maid Brand
"The brand used by the Forkbeard, found rather frequently
in the north, consisted of a half circle, with, at its right tip, adjoining
it, a steep, diagonal line. The half circle is about an inch and a quarter in
width, and the diagonal line about an inch and a quarter in height. The brand
is, like many, asymbolic. In the north, the bond-maid is sometimes referred
to as a woman whose belly lies beneath the sword."
Marauders of Gor, page 87
Dina
"my own brand was the "dina"; the dina is a
small lovely, multiply petaled flower, short-stemmed, and blooming in a turf
of green leaves, usually on the slopes of hills, in the northern temperate
zones of Gor; it is and exotic, alien flower; it is also spoken of, in the
north, where it grows most frequently, as the slave flower; it was burned
into my flesh"
Slave Girl of Gor, page 61
Kassar
"The standard of the Kassars is that of a scarlet,
three-weighted bola, which hands from a lance; the symbolic representation of
a bola, three circles joined at the center by lines, is used to mark both
their bosk and slaves."
Nomads of Gor, page 106
Kataii
"..the standard of the Kataii is a yellow bow, bound
across a black lance; their brand is also that of a bow, facing to the
left.."
Nomads of Gor, page 106
Kef
I had now been branded, a small, graceful mark burned into my
left thigh, high, under the hip. It had a vertical bar, a rather strict one,
with two curling, frondlike extensions, rather near its base, as though in
submission to it. It looked a little like a 'K.'
Magicians of Gor, page 67
Knife
"From the box he then took a small, curved knife and a
tiny, cylindrical leather flask. I gritted my teeth, but made no sound. With
the small knife he gashed my left thigh, making upon it a small, strange
design. He then took a powder, orange in color, from the flask and rubbed it
into the wound."
Explorers of Gor, page 330
Paravaci
"the Paravaci standard is a large banner of jewels beaded
on golden wires, forming the head and horns of a bosk its value is
incalculable; the Paravaci brand is a symbolic representation of a bosk hed,
a semicircle resting on an inverted isoceles triangle".
Nomads of Gor, page 106
Passage
"The street was lined by throngs of Tuchuks and slaves.
Among them, too, were soothsayers and haruspexes, and singers and musicians,
and, here and there, small peddlers and merchants, of various cities, for
such are occasionally permitted by the Tuchuks, who crave their wares, to
approach the wagons. Each of these, I was later to learn, wore on his forearm
a tiny band, in the form of spreading bosk horns, which guaranteed his
passage, at certain seasons, across the plains of the Wagon Peoples. The difficulty,
of course, is in first obtaining the brand. If, in the case of a singer, the
song is rejected, or in the case of a merchant, his merchandise is rejected,
he is slain out of hand. This acceptance brand, of course, carries with it a
certain stain of ignominy, suggesting that those who approach the wagons do
so as slaves."
Nomads of Gor, page 34
Penalty
"I looked at her, puzzled.
"Penalty brands," she said. "They are tiny, but clearly
visible. There are various such brands. There is one for lying, and another
for stealing."
Captive of Gor, page 277
"Four men held me, naked, near the brazier. I could feel
the heat blazing from the canister. The sky was very blue, the clouds were
white.
“Please, no!” I wept.
I saw Rask, with a heave glove, draw forth one of the irons from the fire. It
reminated in a tiny letter, not more that a quarter of an inch high. The
letter was white hot. “This is a penalty brand,” he said. “It marks you as a
liar.”
“Please, Master!” I wept.
“I no longer have patience with you,” he said. “Be marked as what you are.”
I screamed uncontrollably as he pressed in the iron, holding it firmly into
my leg. Then, after some two to four Ihn, he removed it. I could not stop
screaming with pain. I smelled the odor of burned flesh, my own. I began to
whimper. I could not breathe. I gasped for breath. Still the men held me.
“This penalty brand,” said Rask of Treve, lifting another iron from the
brazier, again with a tiny letter at its glowing termination, “marks you also
as what you are, as a thief.”
“Please, no, Master!” I wept.
I could not move a muscle of my left leg. It might as well have been locked
in a vise. It must wait for the iron.
I screamed again, uncontrollably. I had been branded as a thief.
“This third iron,” said Rask of Treve, “is, too, a penalty iron. I mark you
with this not for myself, but for Ute.”
Through raging tears I saw, white hot, the tiny letter.
“It marks you as a traitress,” said Rask of Treve. He looked at me, with
fury. 'Be marked as a traitress,' he said. Then he pressed the third iron
into my flesh. As it entered my flesh, biting and searing, I saw Ute
watching, her face betraying no emotion. 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 decided that my flesh should bear that mark.
“No, Master, please!” I begged him.
“Yes, Worthless Slave,” he said, “you will wear in your flesh the mark of the
city of Treve.”
“Please,” I begged.
“When men ask you,” said he, “who it was that marked you as a liar and a
thief, and traitress, point to this brand, and say, I was marked by one of
Treve, who was displeased with me.”
Captive of Gor, page 310~
Thief's
"The theif's scar in Port Kar is a tiny, three-pronged
brand, burned into the face over the right cheekbone. It marks the members of
the Cast of Thieves in Port Kar. That is the only city in which, as far as I
know, there is a recognized caste for theives."
Mercenaries of Gor, page 239
Trevian
"I have never seen a brand of Treve," I said.
"It is rare," said Ena, proudly.
"May I see your brand?" I asked. I was curious.
"Of course," said Ena, and she stood up and, extending her left
leg, drew her long, lovely white garment to her hip, revealing her limb.
I gasped.
Incised deeply, precisely, in that slim, lovely, now-bared thigh was a
startling mark, beautiful, insolent, dramatically marking that beautiful
thigh as that which it now could only be, that of a female slave.
"It is beautiful," I whispered.
Ena pulled away the clasp at the left shoulder of her garment, dropping it to
her ankles.
She was incredibly beautiful.
"Can you read?" she asked.
"No," I said.
She regarded the brand. "It is the first letter, in cursive
script," she said, "of the name of the city of Treve."
Captive of Gor, page 277
Tuchuk
"the brand of the Tuchuk slave, incidentally, is not the
same as that generally used in the cities, which, for girls, is the first
letter of the expression Kajira in cursive script, but the sign of the four
bosk horns, that of the Tuchuk standard; the brand of the four bosk horns,
set in such a manner as to somewhat resemble the letter 'H', is only about an
inch high; the common Gorean brand, on the other hand, is usually an inch and
a half to two inches high"
Nomads of Gor, page 62
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Branding Rack
The girl was brought into the shop and stood in the branding
rack, which was then locked on her, holding her upright. The metal worker
placed her wrists behind her in the wrist clamps, adjustable, each on their
vertical, flat metal bar. He screwed shut the clamps. She winced. He then
shackled her feet on the rotating metal platform. "Left thigh or right
thigh?" he asked. "Left thigh," said Ulafi. Slave girls are
commonly branded on the left thigh. Sometimes they are branded on the right
thigh, or lower left abdomen. The metal worker turned the apparatus, spinning
the shaft, with its attached, circular metal platform. The girl's left thigh
now faced us. It was an excellent thigh. It would take the mark well. The
metal worker then, with a whell, tightening it, locked the device in place,
so that it could not turn.
Explorers of Gor, page 71
Chores
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KITCHEN
FOOD
& DRINKS:
*Cleaning the servery,dishes washed floor, swept and cleaned
counters and table wiped cupboards wiped.
*Restocking the chillery list of supplies needed
*Cleaning out pantry shelves & cupboards washing them.
*Posting a list of needed supplies for the servery,(every 2 weeks)
*Making sure fresh blackwyne is always made that there are kettles filled
of water on the fires,
*checking the urns/bottles over the fires to be sure there are suitable
amounts of warmed drinks
*Baking bread, pies ect...
*Making cheese
*Churning butter
*Making fresh juices
*Cooking the daily meals post on the wall to say what has been prepared
*Making jerky *Canning/preserving
*Making slavewine
*Making kalana or making paga the first ones to do this will need to
construct a still, others will need to make certain that the still is in
good working condition, kalana is made from the fruit of the kalana, paga
comes from grain basically, both of these are added to some sugar and
allowed to ferment, the liquid produced from the fermentation goes through
the still and drips out into a bucket, the finished product then is put
into botas.
*Making Kalda
*Restocking botas bottles and urns post if barrels or kegs are empty or low
*Cleaning fish
*Cutting up and wrapping meat
GATHERING
AREA:
*Clean and polish the Dias
*Hanging and banging out camp furs, then combing them out
*Cleaning /raking of the spar and dance pits
*Cleaning the fire pits then refuel them
*Gathering Bosk dung chips or wood for the fires
*Feeding watering and cleaning the cages of caged slaves
*Restocking heating botas on the bota rack
OTHERS
CHORES AROUND THE CAMP:
*Filling the water barrels from the spring.
*Gathering fruits
*Take care of herb garden boxes picking of herbs, spices
*Dressing Freshly killed meat
*Curing meat
*Curing skins
*Cleaning supply hut and listing needed supplies every 2 weeks.
*Cleaning guest huts
*Doing Laundry
*Keeping the lamps fueled
*Weather proofing the sheds mix dirt, straw
and water together, then use a stick to press this mixture anywhere you see
a crack or hole in a hut.
*Mucking the slave pens take out the rugs and/or blankets in the pens, wash
them, dry them and put them back.
MEDICAL:
*Cleaning the medical wagon list of supplies. all lists on the
message wall every 2 weeks.
*Making sure medical kits are up to date and filled (should be one beside
each Frees furs huts and the Dias also the kitchen)
*Check with healer about crushing herbs for healing and stuff
*Making bandages use fresh clean rep cloth (don't use the silk ones
though)rip them into long strips, then boil them so they're sterile, dry
them and then roll them up and store them in the medicine shed and in med
kits.
*Making healing salve
ANIMALS:
*Milking bosk and Verr: the three-legged milking stool and
sterile pails are kept in the milk shed, the bosk are in a corral near the
shed, they are milked by pulling on the teats, the buckets are emptied into
a vat in the milk shed
*Feeding the animals: Sleens:the sleens need raw meat (check the servery
for scraps of meat and other refuse.
*Tending the vulos cleaning the coop feeding watering gathering eggs daily.
*Milk bosk & Kaiilas & Verr: this is pretty much putting hay into
their feeding troughs and water
*Mucking the stables use a pitchfork (get permission) and clean out the old
straw in the stables (put it in a pile out behind the stables for those
gardening to use), then spread new straw around. Be careful, all of these
animals will bite
*Making spoons/other implements from tabuk/bosk, etc. horns you will need
permission to use a quiva to carve, carve spoons, forks, cooking utensils,
etc. from the horns.
*Washing the milk bosk and wagon bosks and kaiilas washing the animals
includes actually washing them, plus polishing their hooves and horns.
Grooming the animals use a brush (found in the stables), don't forget to
polish their hooves
MAKING
THINGS CRAFTS ECT.....
*Making botas
*Making perfume
*Making candles
*Making soap
*Making boots
*Sewing leather clothes
*Making needles carve little slender bits of bone, sharpen one end and put
an eye in the other (ask permission to use a quiva)
*Making a whip
*Making torches
*Painting goblet and bowls self-explanatory, can be as intricate or simple
as you'd like
*Mending
*Make baskets
*Make new clothes
*Check with seamtress if she needs things hemed or so on
*Making rence paper
*Carving little animals/novelties from the horns or wood these can be
gorean animals, Rarius, FWs, etc., these items can be colored with dyes
also they can be sold at market or toys for camp children.
*Beading jewelry beads, wires, chains, etc., are kept a supply hut use your
imagination, make them as intricate as you like if you beg a Free they
might let you use gold, silver, jewels etc., to make jewelry for Free
people gold, silver has to be melted and poured into a mold or beaten into
shape.
*Embroidery vests, FW clothing, tunics, etc. can be embroidered with nearly
any design. supplies are available in the supply shed. you do not need
permission to use a sewing needle.
*Weaving
*Making rope and twin.
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