Mmph. I suppose this most directly refers to my Code of Honor. The basic maxim is easy enough to say: Honor is Peace.
Then there are the clarifications: Honor seeks Balance, Honor seeks Harmony, Honor averts War, Honor averts Extremes, Honor averts Discord.
Truly understanding the Code doesn't come without the thirteen elaborations and the commentary, which is... long. That, plus it being sacred and personal to me means I'm careful where I post it. This isn't going to be one of the places. But I will put up one:
CoH Elaboration 1 said:
I) Let thy feelings be thy guide. Do what thou feel is right.
This phrase is listed first because it applies to all else below. Often it is difficult to discern the most honorable course of action, for if one truly follows other points in the code, one begins to see there is no best course of action for any situation and that harm in some form is inevitable. Where things within the code conflict - and they will - in the end one must do what one feels is right. That is all one can do, after all. Trust oneself to act and deal with the consequences that follow as best one can.
Trusting in yourself is vital. As an aside, this one also reminds me that
everyone at the end of the day behaves under elaboration one: people do what they feel is right or take the best option they recognized under the circumstances. We're not infallible, we'll make mistakes, we'll conflict with each other. But we're all doing fundamentally the same thing: trying to live each of our lives in the best way that we know how. Remembering that instills a sense of empathy and understanding towards others.
