[crossfire] Love and marriage, love and marriage...

[Brendan Lally]

On 10/18/05, Anton Oussik <
     antonoussik at gmail.com
     > wrote:
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      I persume you would get married in a church, which means you would
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      need to worship a god of some sort.
     
Wouldn't it be a high level thing anyway? Marriage typically something
that was engaged in later in life than soldiering.

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        - Should the couple worship the same god for marriage to work? Maybe
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      allow marriages between worshipers of different gods as long as they
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      are not enemies and there is no conflict with any of the gods?
     
or allow each god to define it. I'm inclined to say no though, the
gods in crossfire are not merely different denominations, but
different religions, there is no real-world norm to parallel to what
you describe.

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        - Do we allow same sex marriges (I can see valriel rejecting them)?
     
I can only assume this is an attempt to provoke an off-topic flamewar.

I shall simply state that it is ahistorical, without precedent in any
society that approximates the technological state where crossfire is
set (medieval europe/renaissence - with the odd 17th century-ism)

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      Should it be god dependant? Should some gods not allow marriage
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      alltogether (like devourers, since the primary goal of getting married
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      is having children, and this seems to go against the principles of
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      devourers)
     
probably, or else they would have polygamy/polyandry

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        - Divorces. Let's face it, relationships do not last for ever, and
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      you may decide to go your own ways. Should there be a mechanism for
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      terminating a marriage?
     
not a standard one. The way that divorces can occur varies between
different faiths. I see no compelling reason why crossfire should be
different.

There are major issues though, if marriage would allow a shared bank
account, then splitting it afterwards would be interesting. This would
become more acute if polygamy existed