Peloria

From: mr happy <ajbehan_at_tcd.ie>
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 1995 09:24:56 +0000 (GMT)


Nick (on Lake Oronin):
> This has nothing to do with Argan Argar, or YarGan, afaik.

Does this mean that there is no special hostility between the Pelorian Lodrili and Argan Argar's troll worshippers?

By the way what are Pelorian marriage customs like? In G:CotHW it said that a Pelorian is legal responsible for the actions of his cousins and in-laws to the sixth degree. IMHO in practise most Pelorians marry a fifth or sixth cousin, combining their two legal obligations. If everyone in the kin-group marries somone else in the kin-group a community of responsibility is created. Only powerful clans which can absorb others and unsuccessful clans which cannot support themselves marry out. This is more of the nature of a merger, creating a new endogamous kin-group, than exogamy. It's by this means that the huge clans that rule the Lunar satrapies increase their power.

A related idea is that dead clan-members are reincarnated in the next child born into the clan. The child receives the same name as their predeccesor, though they may accrue nicknames of their own. They don't remember past lives: each one being a transient expression of an eternal being. However they will be expected to be like their predecessor. For example great things are expected from Little Iphigos, named after a Red Moon Priest. On the other hand Desederos, named after the family derelict, is already held in odium. This form of reincarnation probably weakens the power of the elders somewhat. Children will, in the recent past been old men. It probably reinforces identification with your cohort, also.

Sam Phillip's piece on dwarf queues was inspired. A noble Elder Race which spends an eternity waiting in line!


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