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Originally Posted by honeychile
Laird MysticCat, which tartan will ye be sportin'?
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Originally Posted by Psi U MC Vito
I know clans are families. Are septs like sub families within the clans? Or are they more like cadet branches of a clan?
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Clans are really larger/broader than families as such, thought the sense of shared ancestry is certainly a large part of it.
Septs are other family groups that gave allegiance to a clan chief (or who lived on land belonging to the chief) and thus came under the umbrella/protection of the clan.