heirodule
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I wonder if "divorce" is an INappropriate elven term. Should they care? Aren't they all in 'open relationships'?
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I wonder if "divorce" is an INappropriate elven term. Should they care? Aren't they all in 'open relationships'?
I haven't really gotten that impression. Not from any elves that have shown up in the comic at least.
HOWEVER.
I do think that divorce is "wrong". Mate, to me, implies something a whole lot deeper than husband/wife. We're talking 'soulmate' or 'other half of my life' or whatnot. You know, how animals will mate for life, whatnot.
So Divorce, to me, seems like it'd be like cutting off part of your body, from this perspective.
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PoeticJustice
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This.
It only sounds forced to us because we live in a culture thinks of couples as husband/wife or boyfriend/girlfriend or, at the most basic level, man/woman.
Other societies don't think this way, even within humanity. There's nothing forced about the idea that non-human societies don't match our way of thinking.
GMforPowergamers
Legend
I know it wont end this way, but me and some of the guys I play with joked about the epilog of the whole story being V retuerning home to an empty house, getting lonely, so V goes, buys flowers and goes to V's Mates new place, knocks and a human woman answers and says she has just wed V's mate...the last page is V sitting there talking to Blackwing...
V: "I can't belive it"
BW: "Yea that sucks I am sorry, but atleast she wont be around forever, she is only human"
V: "Yea, and atleast if (Mates name) is with her I can say I was the last man to have her" fade to black with a ghost of Belkair yelling "Finaly we know"
V: "I can't belive it"
BW: "Yea that sucks I am sorry, but atleast she wont be around forever, she is only human"
V: "Yea, and atleast if (Mates name) is with her I can say I was the last man to have her" fade to black with a ghost of Belkair yelling "Finaly we know"
Voadam
Legend
Certain animals (like geese) mate for life. Certainly not all of them. Just look at chimps.
Starbuck_II
Explorer
According to Races of the Wild, you are correct. But they get divorced and remarried several times in their life time.
wingsandsword
Legend
On the other hand, the old 2e Complete Book of Elves described Elves as being slow and rare to marry because they held marriage in such high regard that elven lovers do not marry unless they are truly and totally devoted to each other, and that the reverie (referred to in 3e as trance, the elven replacement for sleeping/dreaming) helps reinforce the bonds between an elven couple because they can always relive their happiest times together in that state. Most elven lovers, even those couples that produce children, live together in more informal and less legally binding arrangements (as fitting with their racial tendencies towards Chaotic alignment). That book tells that in the last 3000 years there had only been one recorded divorce among elves.
In other words, depending on the setting, YMMV.
Amphimir Míriel
Explorer
Plane Sailing
Astral Admin - Mwahahaha!
I think I'm missing the joke in the final panel. Maybe it doesn't cross the Atlantic well?
Could someone explain it to me?
Cheers
Could someone explain it to me?
Cheers
