I’m writing The Sword of Fire novels for my son Daniel. He’s a bit too young to read my books now, but one day I want him to realize that to be a man is to be a warrior, but that to be a warrior is much more than what he might think at first. One of my characters sums it up this way when he describes the warrior code: NOBILIS VOS ESTO. That’s Latin for “Be Noble.”  The idea is that to be a man you must protect those in your care as a good king protects his people, even to the point of laying down your life for them.  

Here is the warrior’s code from my novel Asulon. I took the idea from many such codes of chivalry you’ll find in tales of medieval knights.