Difference between revisions of "First Contract"

The '''First Contract''' was the legal code of the [[kandra]] as well as the metal plate on which it was inscribed. It served as a contract between the kandra people and the Lord Ruler, who they called the Father, and superseded any lesser service [[Contract]]. Members of the Second Generation believed the First Contract was nullified with the death of the Lord Ruler however [[TenSoon]], tried to make the argument that it had transferred to [[Vin]].{{ref|b|hoa|c|11}} The First Contract was the first thing taught to newly spiked [[mistwraith]]s. {{epigraph ref|b|mb3|e|11}}

Initially the First Generation was reluctant to set up any sort of government independent of the Lord Ruler and his Empire. Therefore they wrote a series of promises, codifying their laws, which they brought to him for approval. He ordered that they be cast into metal, in order to protect them from being changed by [[Ruin]], and scratched his signature into it at the bottom. {{epigraph ref|b|mb3|e|11}}