(09-02-2013, 11:22 AM)FreelanceWizard Wrote:(09-02-2013, 10:18 AM)Eva Mhirravi Wrote: So there's one pretty serious implication about the whole Nunh/Tia thing that I've never heard mentioned... okay, so if only the Nunh is allowed to breed, does that mean every other male in the tribe isn't allowed to have sex at all? So every Tia is a virgin? That doesn't seem like a very realistic prospect to me. Thoughts?
In theory, that'd be the case. In practice, there's probably "cheaters" who go around the system, homosexuality, and the like. In RL, in theory, no one who's in a standard, Western, monogamous marriage should sleep with someone outside of their marriage, but the statistics indicate otherwise.There's also the possibility that non-procreative sex is okay, but since we don't know anything in lore about birth control, that's speculative at best. All we know from the lore is that the cultural norm is indeed that tia don't get to bed the females of the tribe.
Of course, since this is a fairly grey area, you have the freedom, IMO, to write it as you like for your character's backstory.
Pretty much everything about my character is screwed up since I thought Eva up (and rolled her, but rarely played) before any of the new naming and tribe lore came out (When DID that come out by the way?).
My idea now is that Eva's mother was probably in some sort of secret tryst with a Tia and ended up pregnant. The Tia would be exiled and the mother given the choice of abandoning the child or being banished as well. I'm thinking she gives up the child which is how Eva ends up in Ul'duh with no tribe prefix. As for having a surname I'm thinking despite the fact that Eva doesn't care much for cultural norms she's none too close to her father (perhaps because, though she's unwilling to admit it, she feels inadequate for being sired by an "unworthy" Tia) and thus refused to take his name. I'd imagine "Mhirravi" would just be a name she thought up that sounded pretty. I dunno.
