A Question About Marriage

[Verence]

You know, it occurs to me (a day late 'cause i THMURT) that there may have been a misunderstanding regarding my earlier posts. I'm not really interested in "traditions" on interracial marriages, since such marriages are probably by their very nature nontraditional. Such unions would, by my guess, go one way or the other culturally speaking or perhaps strike a happy medium that isn't really in the purvey of tradition, therefore not really a part of "lore" per se.

No, what I was interested in (and perhaps communicated poorly) was the traditions of each respective race and/or tribe: Lalafell traditions, Elezen traditions, Seawolf traditions, etc. That, I feel, is relevant and interesting information to how Eorzean society is built and how it functions. Families, how they're formed, and how they bring up the next generation is what interests me here - specifically in the context of names, but as stated before, any and all info would be interesting stuff to know just to expand our view of Eorzean culture and society as a whole.

[Anonymoose]

No, what I was interested in ... was the traditions of each respective race and/or tribe

Ahhh, see, this would be far more difficult for me to speculate on. Eorzea, itself being a cultural realm, seems to be midway through a melting-pot scenario. I suspect that in terms of traditional and race-specific cultural expressions, the examples will be few but more pronounced / important in the story.

I'll keep an eye out!

[Deli]

Well, going on nothing, my idea would be something like...

'Traditional' marriage, lifelong monogamy between one male and one female, is probably an elezen invention inspired by the divine love between Menphina and Oschon. The symbol of Oschon, a walking stick, is probably involved; maybe the groom hands his staff to the priest, as if to say,

/sweat /panic
source
/whistle


here is the chart I made 3 months ago... huge picture, sorry, so ppl can see the whole thing and little detail about each box...


The box has top-down structure such as Nymeia and Althyk are brother-sister, but Althyk is the elder one...

• Family already exist before Menphina and Oschon
  1. there are room to debate family = marriage existed still...
  2. we can see Father-daughter and Mother-daughter relationship already exist before Menphina and Oschon. That means Family already an idea. Also, it's not a father or mother as main society; both side have equal respect, or people won't say "Nophia is daughter of Azeyma".
• Oschon maybe not that good of a lover...
  1. Oschon has a female "Close Companion" Halone...there is no "simple friendship" between male and female =.= unless Halone is extremely manly-looked, since goddess of war thing...
• There is no husband and wife arrows in The Twelves relationship...(out of space so SE didn't list it?)
  1. Thaliak and LLymlaen are father-Daughter
  2. Azeyma and Nophica are Mother-Daughter
  3. LLymlaen is elder sister of Nophica
  4. how about Thaliak and Azeyma...?
• if there is no cross-race marriage, The Twelves should be single race.

and the symbol is mostly cus their tool/weapon I think

we need to go into that Twelves church to get more info I think

[Catapult]

It is worth pointing out that the concept of arranged marriage for the purpose of wealth and prestige is a very Ul'dahn thing by nature. We are likely so see far more of that around the Sultanate than anywhere else.

Meanwhile, the Theocracy of Gridania is more likely to see marriage developed around the concept of a family and settling down, since their connection to nature and tradition is exceedingly strong. So more of the religious aspect of marriage.

And of course, the free spirits of the Thalassocracy are more likely to end up in those relationships defined by love. It's the kind of place that lets you, and in fact encourages you, to run off and follow your heart and your dreams.

Rukkirii knows where it's at:

And I hope she enjoys it as well (with or without marraige)!

[Nuinn]

Hmmm that chart of The Twelve reminded me once more. . . .

We still have no info on how our chosen guardian will affect our characters, right? I'm a bit panicky, because I don't want to mess my char (even if later, laaaaater we are allowed to change it perhaps) in a big way by choosing it "blindly". I'd like to remain faithful to Menphina. Because love. . . . but not wanting to miss out on some perk/title/subligar which I might like better, that might be a favour from a different deity .___.

EDIT:

Rukkirii knows where it's at:

Stalker! o_o

[Catapult]

Stalker! o_o

I dare you to say that to her 747 followers.

[Nuinn]

I dare you to say that to her 747 followers.

Luckily I have exactly 747 fingers! *points* Stalkers! (ﾉ> ◇ <)ﾉ