>But, if the character wants to be a mother, it's the one sub-cult of
>Vinga that she can't have. Red Women quite specifically give up their
>fertility. This is never stated for any other Vingan AFAIK (though may
>be implicit).
This may be a statement of the obvious, but it's perfectly possible to be a mother and also be infertile:
It's *becoming* a mother that requires the fertility...
After all, it's not like Vinga or Orane is going to take the baby back if its mother renounces her fertility afterwards, is it? (At least, I hope not. That would be a *much* darker version of the Red Woman vows, if you had to sacrifice all your living children as part of the ritual...)
Stephen
Come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts! Unsex me here; and fill me from the crown to the toe top-full of direst cruelty! Make thick my blood, stop up the access and passage to remorse; that no compunctious visitings of nature shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between the effect and it! Come to my woman's breasts, and take my milk for gall, your murthering ministers, wherever in your sightless substances you wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night, and pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, that my keen knife see not the wound it makes, nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark to cry, "Hold, hold!"
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