Sythyry placement and displacement

[sythyry]

Sythyry is not quite canonical World Tree! Canonical World Tree is defined by the RPG sourcebook. I've generally been trying to keep quite close to canonical. But I have drifted away from it in a few respects. Here's what I can think of just now:

1. Transaffection is far more despised in Sythyry's version of World Tree than in the canonical one.
2. Vae is far more dangerous and brainwarped than the baseline nendrai in the rulebook, though that is explained in-story.
3. Sythyry is using some as-yet-unpublished rules to enchant things fast.
4. Sythyry is not perfectly reliable on some topics, like how well Cani read emotions -- they read them far better than a human (or Zi Ri) does, but not the near-mindreading that Sythyry sometimes seems to think.
5. Oh, and not many people but Sythyry, Kantele, and Inconnu actually agreed with Sythyry's previously-held, now-abandoned theory of transaffection.

[Poll #1593581]

Comments

Re: Departures from canon

[alex-muridae.livejournal.com]

I do not have my sourcebook with me at the moment, but that statement was in the middle of the chapter describing general attitudes and the nature of the tree; if you can find where it discusses religion, orthodoxy vs. non, and such, you're in the right area. I cannot remember the exact segment, but I would look for one talking about relationship, love, or marriage.

Re: Departures from canon

[rowyn]

Yes, that's where I think it is, but I looked through that chapter three times trying to find it this weekend, and never did. x.x I must be skimming past it each time or something.

Re: Departures from canon

[alex-muridae.livejournal.com]

Aha! Found it. Page 77, second column, last paragraph (and sentence) of the "cities" section; "Interspecies marriages (and other fundamentally infertile kinds of marriage) are regarded with some mixture of amused tolerance and confused scorn."

Now, my extrapolation from this and the earlier sections on the eight species was that what forms this took would indeed depend on the species; by the sound of it, because Cani are close-knit, it would not be uncommon for...ah...body-play between mates and mates-of-mates and such, but to have a marriage or mateship between a pair of same-gendered Cani (or a member of another species) would be unusual, and fit the above; some longhouses would be more or less tolerant. Similarly, I'd wager that it may not be uncommon for an Orren marriage of several partners to end and leave a same-gendered couple, or to have a same-gendered couple seeking another (likely of the opposite gender) to join their marriage, and that is all likely more social acceptable then the above Cani example. And then there are the Zi Ri...