Sure it does! Swearing on your mama's grave should be a Thing across any universe. I could swear on God, but he's a necromancer too, so that's. You know. Probably not a good guarantee of sincerity to someone who haet necro.

[ shrug ]

We're Imperials, I guess. The antis hate magic and think the terms 'wizard' and 'zombie' are both slurs and equivocal.

[ ah, nuns. gideon has teeeeechnically been impersonating one, here, because keeping up harrow's dumb charade is slightly less degrading than announcing one's self as a slave. ]

Oh, a nun. [ gideon's smile turns slightly fixed, why is her life lousy with angry combat nuns. ] That's cool, that's cool. I think 'lay sister' is probably technically the correct term for the Ninth House cavalier.

[ a beat. ]

Which is what I am! Yeah.