Editing Flamepunk: The Hadar Families (section)

===Honor among the Hadar===

There is a saying that there is no honor among thieves, but rest assured this quaint idiom would be entirely foreign to the Hadar.

The central pillars of Hadar belief is honor, known as ''ird'' (for women) and ''sharaf'' (for men). There are distinctions between these two, most notably the fact that a woman's ''ird'', once lost, can never be regained. Since women own all property within Hadar society, as long as their ''ird'' is intact, the loss of ''ird'' can pitch an entire family group onto the street. By contrast, a man's ''sharaf'' can be lost and regained. In both cases, Hadar's honor is her unquestioned word and unimpeachable integrity, the promise that when she says a thing will be done, it is done. 

Honor is so essential to the way of Hadar life that no insult is greater than impugning the honor of another Hadar. In a sense, the denigration of one's honor is worse than murder: a Hadar without honor is no Hadar, and when his flame goes out, he will be spat upon by his mother and sisters, and forgotten. 

On the other hand, the Hadar rarely expect non-Hadar to understand, much less adhere to, their unique code. The word of an outsider is worth only as much as they can provide to back it up. It is the rare person who has earned the respect of a Hadar to the point that their word is good enough.