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<blockquote data-quote="Douane" data-source="post: 1277804" data-attributes="member: 157">[OoC<img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devious.png"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":]" title="Devious&nbsp; &nbsp; :]" data-shortname=":]" />It's been some time since I last read that play, but in my opionion the setting and society background (GB in the late 16th century or Verona in the late middle ages) is radically different from that of the clans.While I do not deny that love is possible with the Warrior Caste and bound to be in existance somewhere as a special &quot;relationship&quot;; actually producing a child is a step further and something the warriors are conditioned against from the very start. (Again from the Canon: &quot;But the naked words father and mother were so obscene that they were not uttered even as curses.&quot; and &quot;Just the thought of being a parent makes me uneasy. The mere words relating to natural birth make me uncomfortable.&quot; and &quot;The warriors of the Clans regard parenthood and the terms related to it as near-obsceneties.&quot;)So while the two elementals might actually enjoy something akin to &quot;love&quot;, actually parenting a child would be a much greater step to take. Also, it might very well be deemed &quot;deviant&quot; behaviour by the clans (and therefore by a society which brooks no &quot;deviants&quot; and is quick to deal with them).The last hurdle to cross would be the adoption of such a &quot;product&quot; of &quot;deviant behaviour&quot; into the warrior caste as it would continually remind everyone of this shameful event.So, in conclusion it would be an extremely strange (and rare) event (a freeborn child to two elementals entering the warrior caste and od service on the frontline) to actually take place, and even if it did, it would carry an enormous stigma with it.Folkert</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Douane, post: 1277804, member: 157"] [I][OoC:][/I] It's been some time since I last read that play, but in my opionion the setting and society background (GB in the late 16th century or Verona in the late middle ages) is radically different from that of the clans. While I do not deny that love is possible with the Warrior Caste and bound to be in existance somewhere as a special "relationship"; actually producing a child is a step further and something the warriors are conditioned against from the very start. (Again from the Canon: "But the naked words [I]father[/I] and [I]mother[/I] were so obscene that they were not uttered even as curses." and "Just the thought of being a parent makes me uneasy. The mere words relating to natural birth make me uncomfortable." and "The warriors of the Clans regard parenthood and the terms related to it as near-obsceneties.") So while the two elementals might actually enjoy something akin to "love", actually parenting a child would be a much greater step to take. Also, it might very well be deemed "deviant" behaviour by the clans (and therefore by a society which brooks no "deviants" and is quick to deal with them). The last hurdle to cross would be the adoption of such a "product" of "deviant behaviour" into the warrior caste as it would continually remind everyone of this shameful event. So, in conclusion it would be an extremely strange (and rare) event (a freeborn child to two elementals entering the warrior caste and od service on the frontline) to actually take place, and even if it did, it would carry an enormous stigma with it. Folkert [/QUOTE]

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