Marriage is a contract between clans. In-marrying is totally useless. if they must, let them just share a hearth, the way other sexual minorities do. What fool would let his daughter marry a humakti?
Severing kinship ties does not magically sever emotional bonds: you feel the same way about a person (sister, brother, father etc.) as you always did. Does a woman forget her father and brothers because she marries into a new clan? Could a man kill his brother because he is outlawed?
I also have strong (though minority) opinions about what allying with the death rune does to sexual desire and fertility. Note Andrin's law about humakti sharing a hearth with a pregnant woman.
Also... (again YGMV) I have always played humakti battalions as having various forms of group marriage for those who remain sexual active.
Remember though, that sex magic of various forms is always major mojo.
Debates about this are perennial: have a look at he Digest archives. And yes, I've read Storm tribe. :)
Cheers
John
At 03:57 PM 20/03/2007, you wrote:
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>While it would probably be unpopular, could siblings marry if one was
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>Michael
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