Is there a realistic historical comparison to the Bravos/Water Dancers? I mean, how did people way back when setup/organize dueling where a bunch of guys stabbing swords at one another in the streets didn’t get out of hand and instead became a mainstay of their culture? And what do they sustain themselves on financially outside of dueling since there’s only one full time job occupation for them in the First Sword that we know of?

Bam.

Historically, stuff did get out of hand, hence Romeo and Juliet and “civil blood makes civil hand unclean.”

If the Braavosi bravos follow the same trajectory as the Italian bravos, they are hired on a short-term basis by noblemen/wealthy folks who need bodyguards or who want to fight with their rivals. And when they’re not doing that, they run protection rackets. 

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