(02-04-2015, 08:13 PM)Intaki Wrote: Firstly, the notion that there is one Nunh in a Seeker tribe is for the most part incorrect. Nunh are supposedly responsible for the breeding of 20-50 females. Only a tiny clan, little more than a large family, will only have a single Nunh. Larger clans will likely have more than a few Nunh.
I'm going to have to disagree here. This lore post indicates that 1 nunh holds a hunting ground "(b)ig enough to sustain the 20-50 females (and the few odd tia) which will follow the nunh". Note I say "holds," which doesn't necessarily means "rules" (nunh rarely hold leadership positions per the naming conventions post).
Really, "clan" isn't the correct term here. A tribe consists of multiple hunting grounds claimed by nunh (dev post). Clan is actually the term for the subsets within a race; Keepers and Seekers are clans of miqo'te.
I also disagree with the statement that nunh are unimportant to those they sire -- culturally, if that were the case, I think it's unlikely that the naming convention would persist -- but based on the Forgotten Springs tribe, I'd tend to agree that tia fill more of the traditional "fatherhood" role. Certainly, they seem to serve as administrators and trainers there (for all that the U tribe seems to go against the written lore to some degree). However, this is largely speculation on my part as there's no dev posts to specify one way or the other.
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