(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.
The Freelance Wizard
Quality RP at low, low prices!
((about me | about L'yhta Mahre | L'yhta's desk | about Mysterium, the Ivory Tower: a heavy RP society of mages))
Quality RP at low, low prices!
((about me | about L'yhta Mahre | L'yhta's desk | about Mysterium, the Ivory Tower: a heavy RP society of mages))