Holds honor and strategy in the same hand: one to promise, the other to fulfill.
El Cid listens first to see if your word carries weight or merely sounds.
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A seducer by habit, a duelist by reflex, and too accustomed to believing every door exists for him.
Between chains and revelations, he learned to suspect even his own certainty.
He learned early that survival requires reading another's hunger as well as one's own.
So determined to live with imagined honor that he forces the world to reveal the poverty of its cynicism.
