Quote Originally Posted by MacMillan of Rathdown View Post
By which act the Sept would be leaving the clan and setting itself up as something else, lacking as they would a Chief. In short, they would no longer be considered part of the clan. In the old says I believe these were called "broken men", and were viewed almost as outcasts in traditional society.
Hello M.of R.,I am not wishing to be obtuse and I am not speaking with a huge amount of knowledge here but,there must be septs with their own family tartan,I expect I could think of some if I tried.

Lets say, the Chief of Clan MacKarrott has a sept called MacOnion and they,the MacOnions, decided to have a tartan made for the MacOnions, I don't think the Chief of Clan MacKarrott could stop(even if he wished to)that from happening.The MacOnions would still be a sept of the MacKarrotts though.Would they not?