Editing Customs (section)

==Hospitality==
:{{Main|Guest right}}

The custom of [[guest right]] is both sacred rule and ancient.{{Ref|ASOS|7}} Hospitality can be offered by a lord upon the arrival of the host. The most common way of receiving guest right is by eating "bread and salt".{{Ref|ASOS|49}} Once guest right has been offered and accepted, the guests and hosts are protected from harm by one another for the length of the stay.{{Ref|TWOIAF|The North}} Guest gifts can be given on the day the guests depart,{{Ref|ADWD|29}}{{Ref|ADWD|46}} possibly as a means of ending the protection of the guest right. Guest gifts are no longer given by all lords, however.{{Ref|ADWD|29}}

The obligations of hospitality are taken very seriously, both [[beyond the Wall]]{{Ref|ACOK|23}}{{Ref|ASOS|7}} and in the [[Seven Kingdoms]], although more dearly in the [[north]] than in the southron kingdoms.{{Ref|TWOIAF|The North}} Breaking guest right is rare in the north, but is punished similarly to the direst of treasons.{{Ref|TWOIAF|The North}} Besides Westeros, guest right is also practiced in the [[Free City]] of [[Pentos]].{{Ref|ADWD|1}}