Festival of Halina: Adventurers Gone Wild! (Orsal Judging)

[Rystil Arden]

"In the face of the tyrannical oppression forced upon you by your parents, you did the only thing your vhal would allow...the only honourable thing...and chose exile in place of shame and hurting others you loved..."

"Nonetheless, you may have let down your tribe in doing this...it was an impossible choice."

 

[Bront]

"I doubt my mother would have allowed it... if she had been alive. My father thought he knew best, and I think tought I was seeing her, but I was the first born so it would have had to have been me regardless."

"I'm glad you feel what I did was honorable. I don't think I've ever been able to bring myself to tell anyone before. It feels good to get a weight off my shoulders."

A slight sobbing sounds can be heard from behind you too, followed by a loud blowing of a nose. Sunny looks at you both and blushes. "Sorry, but that's so sad."

 

[Rystil Arden]

"Why would it have to be you? You just got finished telling me that a second heir was useful for marriages. So, awful as all this arranged marriage business is, why couldn't your brother have been the one who is married?..."

 

[Bront]

"Well, as first Heir, I am more important, as I am first in the line. So, if a first heir was available, it would be insulting to offer a second if you felt it was important. It's like... offering someone dirty water when they know you have fresh clean water."

 

[Rystil Arden]

"Why should the order of birth matter? Surely this has no bearing on anything of importance. It is the man or woman herself that matters."

 

[Bront]

"Such is the tradition, silly as it is. Exceptions have been made, but they are rare. What I did... made my father's decision much easier, earned him no disrespect, and honestly, gave me the freedom I desire. Out here, roaming wherever I may, that is a true life."

The three come upon an opening, where a few blankets lay spread out on the ground. A small campfire is preped but not lit. "I've been coming out here each night, for some peace and quiet."

 

[Rystil Arden]

"The tradition makes no sense, though. Why would anyone institute something like that? It is foolish and no doubt leads to corruption and the decline of competence among the leaders, as the first child rules, rather than the best."

 

[Bront]

"Well, are there some traditions that you think are strange and unfounded in your culture?"

 

[Rystil Arden]

"No, our culture makes sense. Any such inefficient traditions would have led to death...Primogeniture is just so unnatural, though. Isn't it normal for a mother to split her holdings among her children?"

 

[GnomeWorks]

Troi sees Scarlet and Oirhandir dancing...

Ooc: [sblock]Um... I thought Troi was at the mayor's house?[/sblock]