Orlanthi myth looks back on the early part of the Storm Age as a time where the Storm Tribe started as little more than wretched (ie, kinless) bandits who gradually come together under Umath's leadership, much as did Romulus and Remus' band in Roman legend. I have no doubt that many old Storm myths are analogs to The Rape of the Sabine Women (rape in this case the original meaning of stealing them, not necessarily forced sex). As an example, intelligent Sea races are, save one, supposedly the result of Storm Tribesmen taking Sea tribe bedpartners, half of them by rape (in the modern, not Roman, sense) rather than by seduction (at least according to the GodLearnerized theories that we now have).
This implies that marriage-by-capture will still exist in old forms of the marriage rites, especially when taking an under-wife, albeit ritualized to be as harmless as burning manshaped sheaves of grain rather than a live man at harvest. This could especially be common when several men marry women of the same stead at the same time, with the men and their friends/brothers making up a mock warparty.
OTOH, actually engaging in bride-stealing is probably restricted to bandits and other Vadrudi (well, maybe in East Ralios, too, as I remember a number of Celtic stories where the husband has to kill his father-in-law to wed a willing bride [Cuchulain and Emer, as well as one from the Mabinogion set during Arthur's reign]). Modern Orlanthi have far too much Ernaldan influences to really allow any actual bride-stealing to take place.
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