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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Andor" data-source="post: 2065060" data-attributes="member: 1879">Ok, this can be dropped if it falls under the 'makes people uncomfortable' category, but it deserves some attention.Due to the need for the noble families to both maintain pure human or orc lines and to produce half-blooded children they commonly practice polygamy.  Most commonly this is in the form of a noble married to another noble of an off-race house, and to another spouse of the same race, this second spouse is almost always (very strong custom) drawn from outside the noble families. (The practice of in race exogamy help avoid the dangers of inbreeding.) It is from these non-noble spouses that the pure familly lines continue. (Note that only noble to noble offspring use hyphenated names. There are also (rarer) quartet marriges composed of two noble spouses and two nonnoble spouses (Two orcs, two humans.) Such a quartet can obviously produce halforc children by the nonnoble parents, such children are considered noble but form the very lowest rank of nobility, equivilent to a squire or landless knight.These marrige customs are one of the causes of the rumours amoung non Eyrosians of Eyrosian debauchery.</blockquote>