Re: Re: Celibate Vingans?

From: KYER, JEFFREY <jeff.kyer_at_...>
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:40:57 -0500

Jane Williams wrote:
>
> > From: Mikko Rintasaari <mikrin_at_...>
>
> > They aren't giving away their fertility. They are deciding not to
> have
> > children _yet_.
>
> I think when I wrote the myth for this, I had Vinga deciding not to
> have
> children "until there is peace". Which I then defined as the Orlanthi
> "never" :)

Almost the Yelmic never, there.  

> But I gather that these days, ordinary Ernaldan women have access to
> reliable contraceptives, which they didn't when I first wrote Vinga
> up. So
> yes, Vingans can have fun with as many men as they like without
> getting pregnant, but there's nothing special about it.
>

The problem is that ordniary Vingans don't have access to these magics. Aid/Hinder conception is avaible to the the majority of Ernaldan -- its a standard feat in the Bless Mothers Affinity from Ernalda Allmother. So, the Vingan'd have to turn to a priestess to help out with this. And the prhrase makes a rather polite bit of mythological jargoneese. But then, Ernalda The Queen devotee's don't get it this either -- so it makes some sense that you'd go to some god-talker who can provide this feat as a long term basis somehow.

The rituals involved I'd leave up to the narrator and player as local colour.

Jeff

Jeff

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