Honour, loyalty and justice were the three corner stones that the Echani Coaltion rested on and it applied in combat as well as in everyday life. This was seen as ironic by some since slavery and speciesism was accepted and even encouraged in echani society. The three pillars of echani life were also the three foundations in Echani Martial Art. Echani culture held the belief that to know one fully, you must fight them. Echani fighting was not only self-defense, but a form of self-expression, a means of communication similar to art. For the Echani, it was not at all unusual for children of the same parents to be born so as to be completely indistinguishable from one another to outsiders. Thus, being able to distinguish between like individuals through reading of body movement became an esse