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== Story, Boast, and Reputation ==

Storytelling is among the great arts of Yan Doro. Harbor taverns, family courtyards, ship decks, mine camps, markets, and evening gatherings provide audiences for accounts of storms survived, impossible passages navigated, treasures lost, rich veins discovered, humiliations inflicted upon customs officers, loves abandoned in foreign ports, and monsters that invariably grow larger with every retelling.

Doran culture distinguishes between lying for advantage and lying for entertainment. The first can destroy a person's reputation if discovered; the second may improve it considerably provided everyone understands that a story is being told. A merchant who falsifies the purity of moongold is a cheat, while a miner who claims he followed a silver-eyed lizard through a crack and discovered a vein worth a king's ransom may be bought another drink simply to hear what happened next.

Reputation therefore functions as a kind of social currency. Someone known for courage, generosity, seamanship, wit, or keeping agreements can acquire influence far beyond formal rank, while a person notorious for cheating shipmates, adulterating metal, or abandoning companions may find doors closed in ports where no written law has technically been broken.