> My guess is that a small percentage of them are sexually mature and
> those that are, are kept far apart or snipped. Only in the wild do they
> actually have a chance or reproducing, but the horrible conditions there
> usually mean the young don't survive.
Many uz clans actually probably encourage the enlo to reproduce to keep
up a
decent slave population. Since (at least IMO) enlo mothers tend to
produce poor
offspring and lack resources to care for them too much, it's a limited
blessing at
best. In the wild, they often *do* do well enough to create "enlo
blooms," where
they overrun the area and eat up their food supply, but without new
influxes of
escapees they'd (IMO) die out over a few generations or degenerate into some
non-uz type..
Like Peter Metcalfe says, the uzko twin births may be responsible for
the core of
superior enlo, although it seems a bit odd in some ways (you'd think a mother
could tell the difference between a healthy uzko twin infant and a nasty enlo
infant, yuck). As a plot device, though, it could encourage an uzko
mothera
when giving birth to two twins that look uzko-quality to either kill
(not
socially approved, though) or "send away" one of the babies.*
IMG, some uz clans hold that enlo are produced when a healthy uz soul is "broken
up" or "weakened" by D'Wargon's actions, encouraging a small number of
enlo to try
and "fix" this (by consuming littermates, going on weird heroquests to strengthen
themselves, etc.)
Cheers,
James
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