Love, Relations, Procreation in Styx
Sumraki-Ashaī society is famously matriarchal.
Women have been the spiritual and worldly leaders of the Sumraki-Ashaī since the race first came to be after the War of the Ancients.
The early prophets, all women naturally, led them to the Deeplands where they took roots and became the society they are today.
Therefore in the eyes of the Sumraki-Ashaī it is natural and normal for women to be the head of a household.
In Styx such notions have changed considerably since the Great Revolution.
Men and wyreth people are equal now, in theory and law at least, the norm however remains.
Stygian families are traditionally polyandric with a single woman leading a household consisting of her multiple husbands and their children, a husband who has sired children is usually valued higher than one who has not done so and female children often receive preferential treatment being expected to carry on the family as the next generation's leaders.
There are now programs to empower non-women and if a man should really wish to leave his wife he can do so safely, most of the time. With the industry in Styx functioning the way it does now every person regardless of gender is expected to work, had raising children always been a communal effort it is now doubly so with most children being in state-funded education programs during the day to return to their families at dusk.
Men and wyrenn are expected to work but still carry the brunt of household chores in many families.
Having children is natural to most Sumraki-Ashaī couples and the norm is to raise at least three, a lucky number to the people of Styx.
The people of Styx are often stereotyped as unromantic pragmatists who stumble in the bedroom and have no eye for beauty but that could not be further from the truth, courtship is an art among the Sumraki-Ashaī and has many intricate traditions associated with it.
The most commonly practiced are the reading of the 16.000 Verses of Devotion and the Dance into Darkness, the latter of which is customary at wedding ceremonies. marriages are instituted by the Church of Serkatha and are usually partnerships for life (which is around 700 years for Sumraki-Ashaī).
All that aside the social norms have become less strict through the policies of the Temple Parliament and those who fall outside of the traditional relationship model of one woman and multiple devout husbands like Saintsmaidens, Saintsknights and Saintslyu are fully legally recognized and increasingly socially accepted.
The Temple Parliament is also notably much less strict on the issue of sexual freedbut legally speaking it is now allowed.
Women have been the spiritual and worldly leaders of the Sumraki-Ashaī since the race first came to be after the War of the Ancients.
The early prophets, all women naturally, led them to the Deeplands where they took roots and became the society they are today.
Therefore in the eyes of the Sumraki-Ashaī it is natural and normal for women to be the head of a household.
In Styx such notions have changed considerably since the Great Revolution.
Men and wyreth people are equal now, in theory and law at least, the norm however remains.
Stygian families are traditionally polyandric with a single woman leading a household consisting of her multiple husbands and their children, a husband who has sired children is usually valued higher than one who has not done so and female children often receive preferential treatment being expected to carry on the family as the next generation's leaders.
There are now programs to empower non-women and if a man should really wish to leave his wife he can do so safely, most of the time. With the industry in Styx functioning the way it does now every person regardless of gender is expected to work, had raising children always been a communal effort it is now doubly so with most children being in state-funded education programs during the day to return to their families at dusk.
Men and wyrenn are expected to work but still carry the brunt of household chores in many families.
Having children is natural to most Sumraki-Ashaī couples and the norm is to raise at least three, a lucky number to the people of Styx.
The people of Styx are often stereotyped as unromantic pragmatists who stumble in the bedroom and have no eye for beauty but that could not be further from the truth, courtship is an art among the Sumraki-Ashaī and has many intricate traditions associated with it.
The most commonly practiced are the reading of the 16.000 Verses of Devotion and the Dance into Darkness, the latter of which is customary at wedding ceremonies. marriages are instituted by the Church of Serkatha and are usually partnerships for life (which is around 700 years for Sumraki-Ashaī).
All that aside the social norms have become less strict through the policies of the Temple Parliament and those who fall outside of the traditional relationship model of one woman and multiple devout husbands like Saintsmaidens, Saintsknights and Saintslyu are fully legally recognized and increasingly socially accepted.
The Temple Parliament is also notably much less strict on the issue of sexual freedbut legally speaking it is now allowed.
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