-------------------------------------------- On Thu, 7/30/15, Brett Kruger <xxxxxx@yahoo.com.au> wrote: Subject: Re: Aslan around the 'Horn'? was Re: [TML] Aslan Border Wars To: xxxxxx@simplelists.com Date: Thursday, July 30, 2015, 3:22 AM On 29/07/2015 12:25 AM, Tim wrote: > On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 11:05:00PM +1000, Brett Kruger wrote: >> "In general, wives (like land) tend to be apportioned according to >> the social level of the male. Lower-class families usually consist >> of a male with a single wife, while upper-class families may have >> several wives married to a single male. It is rare for more than >> four or five wives to be found in any one family (a good way to >> establish this is to roll 1D - 1 when constructing a family unit)." > Funny! I could see it almost exactly the opposite way around: a rich > wife can acquire and support a husband by themselves, with all the > associated military expenditures and maintenance of land-related > operations. Poorer ones may have to make do with pooling their > resources with other women to support a male -- and generally one of > lower status. > > > This is of course totally contrary to canon, but it's interesting how > the conclusions vary simply due to what angle you look at things from. > > > - Tim > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In the 'Rebellion' timeline there was an aslan spinter politi (The Glorious Empire) of about 1/2 a sector that was spinward of the The Marches & rimward of the ZConsulate. The mainstream aslan felt it was so offensive that it was not only invaded but the capital world was nuked into oblivion. "1000 years of humiliation was finally erased..." That might be a good place to explore variant aslan cultures.. ===========================================================================