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K'nahli · **02-11-2015, 10:49 PM**

(02-11-2015, 10:26 PM)suncitycat Wrote: Hence why I put in parenthesis that the tribal leaders didn't do anything about it since I agree they would be the ones to decide breeding restrictions. Depending on the size of the tribe and amount of resources, I'd assume restrictions aren't that uncommon among some, especially post calamity where even things such as climate got screwed up.

But I'm not asking if a Nunh should be able to turn up his nose at a mate because he simply doesn't like them. I'm fishing for opinions and thoughts on how a traditional seeker tribe might handle genetic or hereditary diseases/disorders. If the Nunh is there to help provide healthy offspring why should he mate with someone whose ancestors had health issues that were certainly not caused by sickness or injury?

I don't know... even if it were a situation where the tribe was smaller and considered one, big family then I have my doubts that the elders would see it as a wise course of action. I believe that they'd discourage it/forbid it... depending on how harsh you want to word it.

If you are looking for an excuse however, then you could imagine that the elders were more lenient(at least at the time) and that perhaps the mother insisted that she would do everything in her power to increase the amount of food brought in to the tribe or divide her own share among her child should it prove to be weak and a waste of precious resources.

On the note of nunhs and who they mate with(even though it wasn't part of your question), our tribe treats those exchanges as something that must be agreed upon mutually. Basically, if it comes time that the elders decide a female or more should bear offspring, then a nunh may be asked to find a mate but no-one would actually be specified, he does have his own free will too, of course. On a related note, females can't just decide to have kids either... not without the elders consent at least(or so I believe). Doing so takes them out of the hunting scene for quite some time and it may not even be seen as a priority to bring in more people.

Having said that, in cases of emergencies where the populations is at risk then I'm sure he and perhaps any capable female(who didn't like him in particular but wanted kids) would be told to suck it up and just get it over with.

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