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About Me Member Deviant of Many Talents defendingmyhonorMale/United States Recent Activity Deviant for 2 Years
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The Duel

Tue Aug 14, 2007, 4:19 PM
Rules:

1. 1500 X 1500 pixels.
2. The current artist chooses next player and notes who it is in the description.
3. If your turn lasts longer than a week it goes to whoever finishes and uploads one first.
4. Jimi has to start things off.
5. You can retrieve the full image by hitting the download button on the left of the image page.

"As practiced from the 15th to 20th centuries in Western societies, a duel was a consensual fight between two people, with matched deadly weapons, in accordance with rules explicitly or implicitly agreed upon, over a point of honor, usually accompanied by a trusted representative (who might themselves fight), and in contravention of the law.

The duel usually developed out of the desire of one party (the challenger) to redress a perceived insult to his honor. The goal of the duel was not so much to kill the opponent as to gain "satisfaction," i.e., to restore one's honor by demonstrating a willingness to risk one's life for it.

Duels may be distinguished from trials by combat, in that duels were not used to determine guilt or innocence, nor were they official procedures. Indeed, duels were often illegal, though in most societies where dueling was socially accepted, participants in a fair duel were not prosecuted, or if they were, were not convicted. Only gentlemen were considered to have honor, and therefore qualified to duel. If a gentleman was insulted by a person of lower class he would not duel him but would beat him with a cane or whip or have his servants do so. Dueling is now illegal in all but a few countries around the world."

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