Any capital ship from a great clan is supposed to carry one, especially if engaged in some major venture.

Hence all the desperate activity by so many great clans.

It occurred to them that there had been no recent marriage between these two great clans.

But some of the other great clans were busy.

Strange changes have come about there and are spreading among the greater clans.

The great clans have been at each other's throats since the war.

The marriage is supposed to serve as both a means to avoid war and unite the two great clans into one.

A great clan against us would be worse, but not much.

But in 1522 the two great northern clans were again at war.

"You've told us how the humans on this side of the gorge are enemies to your great clan."