John Hughes:
> All Heortling clans are exogamous, so one of your parents was born into
> another clan and has been accepted into your clan through marriage.
Even if we accept this statement at face value, that all "legal" marriage is exogamous in this sense (never mind that it needlessly contradicts significant amounts of earlier sources, canonical and otherwise). it doesn't mean that every _child_ has parents from two different clans, since it's surely clear that there's no "incest prohibition" on sex between members of different bloodlines of the same tribe (barring some other close social or blood relationship between them). Such offspring of such unions are inevitable, it's simply a matter of whether they're common, and of whether they are "marriages" in any formal or ritual sense. (It makes more sense to me that they would be, but I may have been outcanoned (or out-retconned at least) on that one.)
Insert "it takes a village" type homilies on the likely rearing of such children.
(Technically this is the wrong list for this of course, but didn't people pretty much stop worrying about that early on in the whole three lists debacle?)
Cheers,
Alex.
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