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
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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