(12-24-2014, 03:39 PM)Aysun Wrote:In that regard, my personal interpretation of why the mating ways of miqo'te in general ended up the way they did in regards to mating with several partners is that rather than being programmed to some degree in their DNA to be interested in multiple partners, its the natural instinct to want to maintain the existence of their species.(12-24-2014, 03:33 PM)Eve Malusion Wrote: If memory serves male keepers are significantly less common than female ones. Its implied they have multiple females with one male, simply because of a neccessity to keep the tribe going, due to small tribes with a heavily unbalanced gender distribution.
One part that refers to this is: "Rarely do even the largest Keeper of the Moon families have more than two or three sons. This is not by choice. Nature merely sees to it that more females are born to this race." From the miqo'te naming conventions.
This doesn't really refer to love, but its likely what sourced the belief that multiple females would have children with the same male in Keeper society.
As others said as well, sorry if I misunderstood the question.
Note the use of "race" in the description - males are rare in both Seeker and Keeper clans of the Miqo'te race.
Seekers -> There are few males, finding the one with the best traits to sire the children will give the best chance of survival.
Keepers -> There are few males, being open about it and having as many children as possible will give the best chance of survival.
Simply two different reactions to the lack of males in the species. Now I will be the first one to admit thats an extremely short sighted summarized version of the view, just so thats said, but I didn't want to go into too much detail about it here. In addition both tribes have been described to have subset tribes where the rules can vary drastically, especially in the Keeper societies where there are smaller isolated tribes, traditions have very little overlap for some.
Oh and err... sorry, thread derailing. This turned into more of a post for the miqo'te mating thread.
I will be on topic now!
Appreciate the thread on the subject, while I don't particularly like RPing it myself, I do have real life experience with it.
