Jomoru

Character was taken in a slave raid by the Syndicate and forced into the position of a Gladiator from there you follow the Story of Gladiator to Paladin in game!

I was under the impression that the 10th son thing was a result of their number system, not really because they made that many suffixes just in case they had 10 sons. (Seems a lot more effective to name someone suzy'ten than suzy'blah, so when you eventually have suzy'eleven, you're not scrambling for what word to make up for that kid) If they are normally hitting 1 or 2 kids I would imagine the thing would top out at 5, I mean that would require having at minimum 11 kids. 10 Sons requires at minimum having 21 children. I've been thinking conservatively Keepers have 5 children that can give you around 400 or so per family if you go out to second cousins, so Keeper Enclaves might have something like 1000+ I imagine the excessive females would have an interesting trend in society, perhaps even luring away excess Tia Seeker I Honestly think that "Due to nature" they would have only 2 or 4 males and the rest would be females. IMO. so if we have a small tribe or group of families, lets say 4 families, with a total of 24 kids, I believe that 1/4 of that would be males and like you said "excessive females would have an interesting trend in society, perhaps even luring away excess Tia Seeker" I think that would be true depending on the tribe, and would a Tia seeker accept the rule of a female if he decides to stay within the families. or it would be a simple one night stand ( knockup "the movie" edition) and goodbye? It would depend on how extended the family is, I don't imagine its something as simple as nuclear families(mother, father, children) But more extended groupings, allow for signifcantly larger enclaves without becoming full villages or towns. As for the Tia thing, how actually successful the excess Keeper females are wouldn't matter when they get a reputation for such(They also might get reputations for stealing other races men as well)

Studies in humans have shown there is a distinct advantage to having nonmating pairings to aid with child protection/rearing in an extended family setup. If this were more extensively mandated biologically as is the case with the Keepers likely a high level of homosexual behavior would be involved. Equally likely as they have excess females Keepers might be pushed to have more types who look outward from their race for relationships.

Or they could have small groups of breeding couples surounded by a larger family of lesbian aunts who allow the smaller group of heterosexuals to have more children in particular.

I was under the impression that the 10th son thing was a result of their number system, not really because they made that many suffixes just in case they had 10 sons. (Seems a lot more effective to name someone suzy'ten than suzy'blah, so when you eventually have suzy'eleven, you're not scrambling for what word to make up for that kid) If they are normally hitting 1 or 2 kids I would imagine the thing would top out at 5, I mean that would require having at minimum 11 kids. 10 Sons requires at minimum having 21 children. I've been thinking conservatively Keepers have 5 children that can give you around 400 or so per family if you go out to second cousins, so Keeper Enclaves might have something like 1000+ I imagine the excessive females would have an interesting trend in society, perhaps even luring away excess Tia Seeker

Well I know that they don't form big tribes but still, most of them live in groups of families, at least 3 or 4 families( from my perspective, and I see some good people replying to the post ( much appreciated8-)) having the idea of being a lone family, or coming from one, which is good and awesome, but I have not seen a group of Miqo'te ( of the Keepers) that want to group up as a small group of families.... I don't know if I'm making myself clear. oo and haha do you mean that we are that type of cat or are you still talking about the seekers "Seekers are Lions. We're more... the cats that sit up on your bookshelf and will tell you when you are graced to pay us attention" I'd say that Keepers probably have surprisingly large groups, these are after all probably extended families, and Keepers can breed big I mean they have rules for 10 sons and are explicitly prone to having more daughters than sons. It may not be particularly common but it happened enough to have rules for it.

thank you that helps quite abit.

The naming conventions do a solid job of hammering out the Seekers, but the Keepers seem slightly more confusing, I mean I can follow the directions, but it seems like I have the rules for Grammar without any vocabulary to back it up. I am not sure what sort of words make a proper first or last name for a female keeper(though I do know what her son would be called if such).