Edict of Severance

The Edict of Severance is an rule that allows warriors or descendants of abtakha, Bloodnamed warriors who originally belonged to Home Clans to have their Bloodnames added to the Spheroid Clans.

Origins

This practice can be traced back to 3057, after both Clan Wolf and Clan Jade Falcon mauled each other during the Refusal War. As Asa Taney's Home Clan Coalition and other jealous Clans were circling around the two weakened Clans, both Clans needed a way to rebuild their shattered toumans quickly. Fortunately for the Wolves and Jade Falcons, the support of Invading Clans to their defense gave both Khans Vlad Ward and Marthe Pryde respectively, an idea. They would announce the Harvest Trials: a way for Home Clan warriors to join the invasion under the affiliation of either Clan Wolf or Clan Jade Falcon. This plan would prove to be a great success as Warden Clans used this opportunity to rid themselves of their most troublesome Crusader units, while Most Crusader warriors defected from their own parent Crusader Clans to experience combat in the Inner Sphere. After the success of the Harvest Trials, both Vlad and Marthe were not only able to stave off the envious Home Clans, but destroy the Home Clan Coalition and gain new bloodnamed warriors in the process to restore their toumans.

Wars of Reaving

Despite the Harvest Trials' success, this did not stop other Homeworld Bloodnamed warriors from become bondsmen in other Invading Clans throughout the late 3050's to 3060's. This practice would still continue until the Jihad Era, when many of the Spheroid Clans' genetic repositories have been damaged by attacks like the Scouring of Tamar in Clan Wolf territory. In Clan Space, newly elected ilKhan Brett Andrews initiated the Wars of Reaving, as a way to purify the Home Clans from spheroid taint by their Spheroid brethren. Not only would this server the communication between the two groups, but destroy bloodnames associated with their former brethren. After a the Reavings and formation of the Council of Six, the Spheroid Clans held a vote to unanimously server their ties with the Home Clans, leaving the only trace of their memory through their Bloodnamed warriors.

Republic Era

After the Jihad Era, the destruction and damage of so many genetic repositories left the Spheroid Clans to scrounge and find whatever legacies they could, making them scarce. The Council of Six even shared some bloodnames between other clans to save whatever stock they had left. However, the issue of solving limited bloodnames would rise again in 3095. Given the fact that they still had Bloodnamed Homeworld warriors within their touman, the Council of Six created the "Edict of Severance" as a way to allow those Bloodnamed warriors within their clan who had ties with their former Home Clan counterparts to start a new Bloodhouse within that Clan, regardless of the fate of their parent clan. For example, a Jade Falcon abtakha with the Ice Hellion Bloodname of Moore could have the Moore Bloodhouse within Clan Jade Falcon. However, this would only be done as long as the Bloodnamed warrior fought and successfully won a Trial of Founding during The Great Reavings.

BloodNames Affected

These were the names added to the Spheroid Clans:

• Boques - From Clan Blood Spirit
• Dinour - From Clan Goliath Scorpion
• Holliday - From Clan Burrock
• N'Buta - From Clan Star Adder
• Telinov - From Clan Cloud Cobra

Bibliography

• The Great Reavings
• The Wars of Reaving
• Field Manual: Crusader Clans