Tepet divorce

[Hand of Destiny]

I've been thinking about this since watching Rome a couple of weeks ago.  In  the episode I was thinking of Atia forced her daughter to divorvce so that she could force a more advantageous political marriage.  Now does anyone think that the other houses could be divorcing Tepet spouses now that they are so politically weak?

 

[Guest]

I don't remember there being any rules for devorses any where I will hafe to look over my DB book

 

[Hand of Destiny]

I don't remember there being any rules for devorses any where I will hafe to look over my DB book

Who needs rules.  It was a question of did anyone else think this kind of thing could have happened.  After all when the Iselsi fell, why didn't the other houses raise  hand to help there own children married into the Iselsi.  Divorce is a possible answer.

 

[Persell]

That, or they just cut their loses from tainted resources.

 

[Sherwood]

It would certainly make for a interesting plot device in a Dragon-blooded game...

 

[Hand of Destiny]

My thought exactly.

 

[Guest]

I figured that devorse isn't legal in the realm at all

 

[The Mad hatter]

no, if you dont produce children within a certin time your marriage can be voided, so id say with that as a bases, divorce can happen, you just have to petition for it, like freeing a slave

 

[StarHawk]

I figured that devorse isn't legal in the realm at all

I've been thinking about this since watching Rome a couple of weeks ago.  In  the episode I was thinking of Atia forced her daughter to divorvce so that she could force a more advantageous political marriage.  Now does anyone think that the other houses could be divorcing Tepet spouses now that they are so politically weak?

Having read the exalted book, yes, there is divorce, and yes they divorce for political reasons too, but it's very looked down upon. Same goes for when the marrage is voided because the lack of children. Divorce then is technically legal, but much like the 1950's if your parents are divorce you're kinda the "outsider".

 

[Sherwood]

I'm suddenly reminded of Eddie Murphy's stand up routine about divorce:  Half!  I want half his shit!


<shakes his head>  I should really try to dicipline my mind some day.

 

[Guest]

While the Realm takes a good amount of inspiration from Imperial Rome, marriage and gender relations is -not- one of the areas where it is overwhelmingly Roman. Augustus' rantings about the decline of the family aside, divorce was not only perfectl legal in late Republican/early-to-mid Imperial Rome, but it was very easy, and carried very little social stigma. People got married and divorced and remarried all the time. The idea that a woman should be a univira, a woman with only one man for her entire life, was dead in the water by the time the first century A.D. rolled around.


Romans, after all, didn't need to necessarily have kids to carry on their dynastic lineages, because adoption (even of adults) was as legal and easy as divorce was. Neither of these things holds true in DB society as written up in canon.

 

[Obsidian Soul]

The noble Roman women were also very delicate and freaquently died in childbirth.  A noble Roman couple was considered blessed if a wife survived three childbirths.  The Romans were very inbred and also poisoned themselves be consuming, on average, one pound of powdered lead per year through the consumption of lead sweetened wine.  It killed the unborn children, weakened the wives and drove the men insane.  With the kind of physical climate, adoption was a necessity, and many a commoner was raised to nobility through adoption, just because there were not enough noble children to go around.