"Travelers and pilgrims often journey to the event in great caravans, seeking safety in numbers. Smaller groups and individuals often never make it to their destination, and those that do usually find themselves for sale on one of the camps great slave market platforms. Though the Fairs themselves may be an uncommon spot of truce and peace, the surrounding land is often even more dangerous then is normal for even the harsh world that is Gor."

"The contests I mentioned which take place at the fairs are, as would be expected, peaceable, or I should say, at least do not involve contests of arms. Indeed it is considered a crime against the Priest-Kings to bloody one's weapons at the fairs. The Priest-Kings…seem to be more tolerant of bloodshed in other localities."
Priest-Kings of Gor p 11

"It is said that below the mountains that Priest-Kings know all that occurs on Gor." "Nonsense," said Misk. "But perhaps I shall show you the Scanning Room someday, We have four hundred Priest-Kings who operate the scanners, and we are accordingly well informed. For example, if there is a violation of our weapons laws we usually, sooner or later, discover it and after determining the coordinates put into effect the Flame Death Mechanism." I had once seen a man die the Flame Death, the High Initiate of Ar, on the roof of Ar's Cylinder of Justice, I shivered involuntarily.
Priest Kings of Gor pg 125

"Indeed, one might buy slaves here and there, publicly and privately, at many places in the Fair of En'Kara, one of the four great annual fairs at the Sardar. It is not permitted to fight, or kill, or enslave within the perimeters of the fairs, but there is no prohibition against the buying and selling of merchandise within those precincts; indeed, one of the main functions of the fairs, if not their main function, was to facilitate the buying and selling of goods; the slave, of course, is goods.....
These fairs constitute truce grounds. Men of warring cities may meet here without fear. Political negotiation and intrigue are rampant, too, generally secretly so, at the fairs. Peace and war, and arrangements and treaties, are not unoften determined in a pavilion within the precincts of the fairs."
Beasts of Gor pg 44

"The contests I mentioned which take place at the fairs are, as would be expected, peaceable, or I should say, at least do not involve contests of arms. Indeed it is considered a crime against the Priest-Kings to bloody one's weapons at the fairs."
Priest Kings of Gor pg 11