(10-15-2013, 10:16 PM)allgivenover Wrote: Keepers do not pair up monogamously. They have breeding males ala the Seekers of the Sun. Unfortunately we have no details beyond that.
From a level 25 Quarry Mill levequest that states explicitly that Keepers have breeding males as well (I forget the name at the moment)
Or its a way of saying age. "3 young women and 1 adult male" just that Keepers consider sexual activity to be a part of adult quality. This does not mean they use the Seeker method and could easily hold more closely to monogomous relationships.
Secondly, this topic needs a disclaimer that a lot of this is your invention, isn't canon, and relies on a large number of assumptions. We don't get to decide the lore or the direction that Keepers should take, SE does. Unfortunately SE only gave us scraps and scarce details that begged even more questions. In the case of Keepers, all we ever got regarding sexuality and mating was the description that they are matriarchal and that males are rare. Few conclusions can be drawn from so little canon info, Keepers being monogamous isn't one of them.
Consider this, Miqo'te males are born very rarely (there is ONE that we get to see in game), if they paired monogamously with females there wouldn't be enough males to pair with, and as a result the Keepers would have passed into obscurity long ago.
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I can think of 5 npc males found in game off the top of my head. If we compare the number seen in the U tribe(not Keepers I know) We see 3 Males but we also don't see a large group of females, in fact I don't think we even see ten there. So even among the Sun Seekers there is not as much of a huge gap and keepers are explicitly stated to only slightly favor more females.
(10-15-2013, 10:54 PM)Nimarhie Wrote: I think part of the trouble we might be having is that we are trying to stuff cat-people into a human cultural view. Among humans its considered bad for people to be promiscuous, at least in most cultures. Cats however do not share that view point. They go into heat and they go off and find a likely bed-buddy for a few minutes to half an hour.
Compare the sexual activities and mores of Bonobos(humanity's closest relatives) and humans. I don't think one can make an argument about the way animals work and the way a sapient race would end up.
