(01-03-2015, 06:30 PM)Blue Wrote: Stuff about Keepers
I'll readily admit that the word "clan" isn't in lore. I'm just using it to refer to these groupings of families, as a way of keeping them distinct from Seeker tribes.
However! I don't see why Keepers being matriarchal or "groups of families" organized would imply monogamy. Keeper males are rare (I can't remember where, but I read something where the ratio was somewhere between 1:5 and 1:20), so a purely monogamous Keeper family would have to have a ton of children to make up for all the females who wouldn't be having kids at all.
An easy alternative that springs to mind might be that a clan (i.e.: a group of families) would be 3-4 families of females and their offspring, with one or two males associated. It could either be polygynous (a number of females all share one male as their group husband), or polygamous (where each female has one or more males).
