(12-23-2013, 08:01 PM)MizoreYukii Wrote: I understood that a Nunh sired children with many women, but I didn't know why they were required to. A simple "strong male chosen by the females to breed strong children" (...)
You may want to be careful with that, though. Per the devs, the women of a territory have no (direct) say in the nunh of an existing territory. A tia becomes nunh by challenging the existing nunh; the females of the tribe aren't involved in that process (at least in the "normal" tribe structure described by the devs). Why and how that system works and to what extent women of a territory actually manipulate the process is a grey area in lore and one in which players can write what works best for their story. However, per the lore, the nunh isn't chosen by the females. He's chosen by losing a battle to a challenging tia.
By the by, there are two alternative ways to become nunh where the acceptance of women is directly relevant: acquiring new territory and branching off into a new tribe. Acquiring new territory is relatively common and involves a tia seizing an area of land. If he can hold it, then the tribe will make him nunh of that area and women will join him. That's the socially accepted way to become a nunh without challenging an existing one. Branching off into a new tribe is rare because, per the devs, women will rarely follow a nunh who doesn't "play by the rules," and at any rate, it makes all those involved outcasts.
To the rest of your post, miqo'te lore can be pretty polarizing OOC for a number of reasons (the large grey areas, the large number of miqo'te characters, the use of miqo'te culture by some players to attempt to force certain types of RP on people, etc.), so I don't think anyone was intending to hit you on the head for being new to it. It's just a topic that brings out some pretty strong points of view.
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