(08-28-2013, 11:49 AM)Vinter Wrote: That brings up an interesting question. How do you think the familial relations look among the miqo'te?
They're not exactly monogamous creatures, and according to the lore the rites and rituals regarding who can and cannot be a Nunh is to ensure that the offspring are of the finest stock. That seems very detached and practical. It doesn't sound like love ever enters into it. Not romantic love anyway.
Could it be that since the Nunh is just a breeding male, he is expected to sire many children, and thus would be too busy to take part in raising any of them? And so, perhaps strong familial bonds would only exist between the mother and the child, and not the father and the child.
So... we do get to see a tribal miqo'te group in game, and their approach to breeding does seem to be fairly practical (there's a strong implication via NPC dialogue that the hunter females plan their "couplings" with the nunh). When you consider that the intended goal of the cultural construct is to create the strongest, most adapted offspring, I suspect romance doesn't play a huge role. Then again, since the nunh is the strongest, most adept male of the tribe and has proven such through battle, it'd be to them like getting to bed a rock star while at the same time doing a great service to your tribe. It may not be romantic in a Western (or city-state culture) sense, but to the miqo'te, it may serve a similar cultural purpose.
In terms of the nunh's relationship with his children, there's a number of different points of view on this; I don't think there's enough lore to know what the norm is, frankly. If the tribe's territory is large, the nunh likely has to travel a fair amount and probably has a weak relationship with his children. If the territory is small (say, a village), the relationship may well be closer, but as he likely has many children, it'd be more diffuse. There's probably a lot of approaches you can take with your miqo'te's relationship to his or her father and still be within lore.
For what it's worth, L'yhta had a fine, but distant relationship with her father; her mother bore quite a few children to him, so she saw him more than other miqo'te in their tribe branch might have. Nevertheless, the requirements of his, ah, "duties" tended to produce relatively less attachment, which is why she ended up finding a substitute father figure in her older brother.
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