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Dialectical Hermeticist
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I'm pretty sure that there's the subtext that Meti is sympathetic to the plight of men in the city, right? With the bond she had with her father yet the utter lack of respect he got? ... or am I reading too much into it.
I purposefully leave ambiguities like that in, so that people can bring their own interpretations to the character. On one table, at a convention, I actually had a player decide Meti was trans - and I loved that on a few levels; for the comfort and enjoyment of the player, for bringing a new dimension to Meti, and because it absolutely fits into the culture of the city.
Honestly I like the part of Prim's character is that she's barren. You don't see that too often and there's so many emotional opportunities for a character like that.
Oh, that's fantastic. Though that does make me curious about gender/sexual norms in Lama. Seems like there's rather strict gender norms within the stratified society. How are M/M and F/F relationships seen? Are they accepted as norma, and is one more taboo than the other? Sexual relationships outside of marriage don't seem like they're looked down upon since there's a goddess of sex and recreation.
Does Ceda need to sleep after all these holy raves she's throwing? If her goddess doesn't bless that away and Chaundra calls meetings before 4 in the afternoon there may be blood.
This is all quite complicated and I want to stress I've been trying to ground it in research, presenting a culture with as messy an approach to sexual and gender norms as many of our own without making any moral judgements or defaulting to essentialism.
I hope it doesn't ring too true - I was aiming for a materialist emergence rather than just lifting existing systems to exoticise part of the setting.
I'm glad that you did read it as compliment. And I'm just one person who's not representative, etc. etc., standard disclaimer, but I for one am getting nothing but the best of vibes.I read it as a compliment! I am just not charitable to myself when I suspect some subconscious racism could have crept into my actions.
So if a woman was to bare a child outside of marriage would that be seen as a bad thing? Or would the child still receive the blessings?
Even though it's blindingly obvious for some of us? i.e. my shadow. Though I suppose that could be some magic I cast on myself.
It's not quite taboo, but it is improper to discuss those sacrifices with anyone outside your temple, and in many cases a secret.
Is it a secret between temples? Because in the character notes, Meti thinks it's a shame that Prim can't be the mother she was destined to be, and there's nothing visible about that. Or is it just a thing that the temples don't talk about between each other (and in only some cases is an actual secret)?
That would make sense.I'd forgotten that detail. They don't talk about it, and in some cases it's an actual secret. Since the sacrifice is consistent, I'd say Meti learned that at some point from maybe a friend or lover who was a Rain Priest and overshared.