[Glorantha] Heortling bastards?

On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 08:16:26PM +0300, Mikko Rintasaari wrote: ??? wrote:
> :From Greg's recent contribution it's
> :clear that Esrolian society is far more restrictive than Sartarite.
> :It may well be that instead of "No one can make you do anything"
> :Esrolia's motto is "Family and clan before self". So being
> :irresponsible enough bring a baby into the clan without permission
> :could be a serious social error.

> Meh, too medieval christian for me. I like the Icelandic model for
> heortlings (including Esrolians). Having a fatherless child isn't a stigma
> in Iceland, nor is not being married when having a child.

Can people refrain from both changing subject lines, *and* stripping out the names of quotees? (Or better still, from either.) It totally destroys attempts to read these discussions as threads (in any sense).

I tend to agree with Mikko here. Who says lack of husband means lack of permission? (Husband presumably _implies_ permission, but not the converse.) Then again, I may partly just be sharing M's biases... Received on Thu 06 Jul 2006 - 20:34:17 EEST