In the “might makes right” era, before the rule of law, there were no doubt some people who could manage to make a mockery of the system. Hafthor Julius Bjornsson comes to mind. Maybe this was why we changed to the rule of law in the first place, and all that King Arthur stuff was just retconned. This is the latest from John McNamee at Pie Comic.
Except that's not how trial by combat actually worked.
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