I'd like to point out that I said 'one Nunh to a population' (meaning a group living in a general area, or community), not per Tribe. I'm fully in the camp that there should be multiple populations/communities per Tribe with Tias traveling to/being exchanged to new communities; overall population and genetic diversity being two reasons for this. If we only have one Nunh per Tribe, and 20-50 females to a Nunh, we'd possibly be looking at a total (traditional) population of around 1300, maximum. And if there's not a lot of breeding between Tribes, we would be then dealing with 26 pockets of potentially genetically-unstable humanoids -- Miqo'te aren't cheetahs, after all.Â
I'm not understanding why a Nunh wouldn't have a decent, fathering presence in his offspring's lives. Female Seekers are busy; they are the providers and are active in the day-to-day affairs of the community, which the Nunh has little-to-no involvement in. So, unless there is need to expand or defend territory or there is a female that is demanding to get pregnant Right Now, the Nunh would have more than ample time to devote to his offspring -- possibly even be the primary educator for the younger children. Tias would likely help with educating, too, but they seem to have other responsibilities to the community.
Note: I'm going off the assumption that female Seekers aren't baby-crazy and the Nunh isn't being required by the females to keep them all constantly pregnant and presenting him with 20-50 babies a year; in a culture where females are the providers, everyone being pregnant all the time would doom the community. Five or so babies a year would be much more reasonable.
Also... I wouldn't get too worked up about the use of the word harem. Despite what Western culture and anime genres make it seem (and granted probably how most people use it these days...), a harem was originally just the part of the house/household where the women lived. Yes, it was often secluded/forbidden for anyone but the man of the house to enter. Yes, there were wives and concubines housed in there. But not every woman in there had some sort of romantic/sexual link to the man of the house -- the female relatives (mother/in-law, aunts, sisters) of both his and his wives that he was responsible for lived in there too, along with his children, and the slaves/attendants that serviced them all.
I'm not understanding why a Nunh wouldn't have a decent, fathering presence in his offspring's lives. Female Seekers are busy; they are the providers and are active in the day-to-day affairs of the community, which the Nunh has little-to-no involvement in. So, unless there is need to expand or defend territory or there is a female that is demanding to get pregnant Right Now, the Nunh would have more than ample time to devote to his offspring -- possibly even be the primary educator for the younger children. Tias would likely help with educating, too, but they seem to have other responsibilities to the community.
Note: I'm going off the assumption that female Seekers aren't baby-crazy and the Nunh isn't being required by the females to keep them all constantly pregnant and presenting him with 20-50 babies a year; in a culture where females are the providers, everyone being pregnant all the time would doom the community. Five or so babies a year would be much more reasonable.
Also... I wouldn't get too worked up about the use of the word harem. Despite what Western culture and anime genres make it seem (and granted probably how most people use it these days...), a harem was originally just the part of the house/household where the women lived. Yes, it was often secluded/forbidden for anyone but the man of the house to enter. Yes, there were wives and concubines housed in there. But not every woman in there had some sort of romantic/sexual link to the man of the house -- the female relatives (mother/in-law, aunts, sisters) of both his and his wives that he was responsible for lived in there too, along with his children, and the slaves/attendants that serviced them all.
