I'm not really sure how that contradicts what I posted. My primary objection is to the rather common misconception that there is one Nunh per tribe. While a Tia can expand his clan's territory and become a Nunh out in the new region, he's still a part of his tribe.
And when I say they're "unimportant", I mean in that in so much as to say that the women they mate with are not their wives (or their harem), and they likely do not have a significant emotional relationship (if any at all) with most of the children they sire. I mean, where would they possibly find the time?
While the lore is nonexistent on the topic, I imagine a typical Seeker referring to her sire (because remember, no males, tia or nunh, bear their sire's name) in the same way someone refers to their ethnic background:Â
M1: "By the way, who was your sire?"
M2: "Oh, I was sired by [X]."
M1: "No way! One of my friends was sired by [X]."
You can argue that a respect is likely to exist, but I find it unlikely it would be the respect and reverence for a father figure as we would know it from our own cultural perspective. The respect of an honored pillar of society seems more likely.
And to add one more thing I thought about while writing this post (not to make a point, just food for thought): unlike the typical patriarchal behavior that dominates many modern and pre-modern human societies where one of the prime obsessions and purposes of manhood is to ensure the persistence of a man's name, a nunh has no hope to "pass down the name" since the cultural construction of the Seekers entirely prevents that from ever occurring. A nunh's name dies with his daughters; even if he sires sons that go on to become nunh themselves they don't bear his name, and the children his daughters will bear will carry the name of the nunh that sired them.
Thinking about it, this significant cultural divide between Seekers and real world culture supports my own belief that the position of nunh is one of binding duty, moreso than hedonistic, hegemonic triumph.
And when I say they're "unimportant", I mean in that in so much as to say that the women they mate with are not their wives (or their harem), and they likely do not have a significant emotional relationship (if any at all) with most of the children they sire. I mean, where would they possibly find the time?
While the lore is nonexistent on the topic, I imagine a typical Seeker referring to her sire (because remember, no males, tia or nunh, bear their sire's name) in the same way someone refers to their ethnic background:Â
M1: "By the way, who was your sire?"
M2: "Oh, I was sired by [X]."
M1: "No way! One of my friends was sired by [X]."
You can argue that a respect is likely to exist, but I find it unlikely it would be the respect and reverence for a father figure as we would know it from our own cultural perspective. The respect of an honored pillar of society seems more likely.
And to add one more thing I thought about while writing this post (not to make a point, just food for thought): unlike the typical patriarchal behavior that dominates many modern and pre-modern human societies where one of the prime obsessions and purposes of manhood is to ensure the persistence of a man's name, a nunh has no hope to "pass down the name" since the cultural construction of the Seekers entirely prevents that from ever occurring. A nunh's name dies with his daughters; even if he sires sons that go on to become nunh themselves they don't bear his name, and the children his daughters will bear will carry the name of the nunh that sired them.
Thinking about it, this significant cultural divide between Seekers and real world culture supports my own belief that the position of nunh is one of binding duty, moreso than hedonistic, hegemonic triumph.
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