If a man broke another's limb, talion, by which the person wronged could inflict the same injury, was still permitted, but only if no settlement was agreed upon. |
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Until the end of the 18th century, talion provided the rationale for such corporal punishments as flogging, branding, mutilation, the stock, and the pillory. |
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We're witnessing the demise of talion, the English word that describes punishment meted out to match the offense. |
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The protagonist, a ranger named Talion, is killed in the prologue, but his corpse is reanimated by an angry spirit named Celebrimbor. |
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You play Talion, a former Ranger of Gondor, who dies with his family at the start of the game. |
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Talion is revived from the dead between the events of the Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. |
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Talion is armed with a sword, dagger and bow and arrow, but he's too weak initially to take on Sauron's vicious Uruk war chiefs. |
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Resurrected from death and inextricably linked to a Wraith Spirit, Talion ventures on a quest of vengeance and discovery to unearth why he has been denied the peace of death. |
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