RE: Re: Heortling marriage

From: Jane Williams <janewilliams20_at_...>
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 19:11:55 -0000


> Really useful skills meaning those the clan happens to be
> short of. Particularly in smaller clans there are going to be
> only a single specialist in some occupations - so when old
> Jarstakos the brewer can no longer do the job and has no
> successor the clan will arrange a marriage to recruit one.

And the young man ends up not as the third brewer in his home clan, but The Brewer in his new one. Quite a step up!

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