Guest right

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Guest right

The guest right is a tradition that goes back thousands of years in Westeros. The guest right is a sacred law of hospitality in the Seven Kingdoms. When anyone be they common born or noble, eats the food and drinks the drink off a hosts table beneath the hosts roof the guest right is invoked. When invoked neither the guest can harm his host nor the host harm his guest. For either to do so would be to break a sacred covenant that is believed to invoke the wrath of the Gods both old.

It is sometimes customary for a host to give "guest gifts" to the departing guests when they leave the hosts dwellings, this usually represents the end of the Sacred guest right. In addition visiting guests will sometimes offer there host "guest gifts" as gratitude for giving them food and shelter.

There are two infamous instances in the history of the Seven Kingdoms when the guest right was broken, the legend of the Rat Cook of the Nightfort and the Red Wedding.

A song is sung about the Rat Cook and is used to represent the repercussions that await those who violate this sacred laws of hospitality.