Voice; Fiddlesticks 24, early-ish morning. (slightly backdated)

[mtsilver_conquor]

Colour me curious, but what are winter festivals or holidays like on your world? Back home, today would be Shiwasu 10, or Tōji -longest night and the start of winter. It's also my birthday, but that's not the important thing; it's not a big number anyway. I don't know what Alola does for Tōji, so I'll tell you what my hometown did.

[The longer she talks, the more homesick she sounds. It likely doesn't help that today's her birthday, but well. Small detail's Eva's willing to overlook.] Masara had the rural traditions of feasting, food making, drinking, games dancing, battles. You know, the normal for a coastal town.

No snowball fights though; we'd have to go to the mountains for that and we never went in the lead up to Tōji because that was bad luck. But, we did have something better: Fire jumping under the stars to bring good luck. You'd start at dusk with it low, little more than a small coal pit so even kids could jump it with supervision, and work up to a boosted jump over a half-drum of flames, though they'd only let the adults do that one.

The day I turned twenty I did so many times mum had to drag me away from it by the ear, but - worth it. So worth it...

[She trails off before ending the transmission.]

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[mtsilver_conquor]

How'd you manage that? I doubt you have forceshilding, unless there's magic that can replicate it... [There's a small laugh as she continues.] That's why you sometimes ban boys from the kitchen. Even if they're supposed to be able to cook... sometimes they just burn water or make things explode.

Thanks- I like to think I'm young at heart at least. Though getting older does suck in some ways.

[marriedanidiot]

Forceshilding? [ She asks curiously. ]

Oh, there's ways - Feanaro and I Sang strength to the stones, and the rest is all in the materials you use.

[ She chuckles ]

Oh, Feanaro is the cook, not I. All my boys have some passing skill in the kitchen - they are Princes of the Noldor, it is expected! Not all of them are terribly good at it, of course, but they can manage the basics. I'm more a baker, myself, but truly, Feanaro does... or did, the bulk of the work.

[mtsilver_conquor]

A technology-based off psychic abilities. It's commonplace enough that you can find some variation of it in virtually every walk of life. [That's the easiest way to explain it, right??

That said, anything else is lost as her brain screeches to a literal halt.

The joys of coming from a culture that is, all things considered, still rather hierarchical in nature. ]

...Princes?

[marriedanidiot]

Well, at the time, yes.

[ Nerdanal considers ]

Both Maitimo and Makalaure held the crown for a while, though - Makalaure only as Regent, and Maitimo abdicated in favour of Nolofinwe, so perhaps still.

[mtsilver_conquor]

I... I see.

[Breath, Eva. Breath.]

You aren't now, though?

[marriedanidiot]

Oh, no. Maitimo abdicated, after all. And in Tirion Arafinwe took his father's throne.

[mtsilver_conquor]

His father?

[Feanor?]

[marriedanidiot]

Aye - High King Finwe had three sons - my Feanaro, by the Lady Miriel, and Nolofinwe and Arafinwe, from the Lady Indis, after Miriel died. He had two daughters, too. But my Feanaro never forgave Indis, for her wedding of his father meant that Miriel could never return, and that turned on his brothers, although Nolofinwe never stopped seeking his brother's approval.

Do we want to try and head for a wrap for points, if possible?

[mtsilver_conquor]

So... Because his father remarried, his mother could never reincarnate?

[Sorry, she's a bit stuck on that.]

sure!

[marriedanidiot]

The problem is that when we wed, we bind ourselves body and soul, and since the soul endures eternally, so too are our marriages eternal. How then can there be two such bindings, unless one be broken first?

If Finwe was to wed Indis, then how could Miriel return?

[ She sighs ]

Our people still argue over this statue to this day. Some hold that Finwe was wrong, that he should have been content to wait for Miriel to be healed enough to return. Others, that Miriel had already stated that she had no wish to return, so why should Finwe not turn to another?

[mtsilver_conquor]

[Eva is silent for a while as she digests this, and if she's honest, it's more than a little hard to wrap her head around.]

Is...

[A breath, then, as respectively as she can-] is polyamory a taboo for your people? Or is the marriage only ever to one person, the way that certian types of arranged marriages in my world are?

[marriedanidiot]

[ Nerdanel considers that ]

I don't see how that would work, with the fea-bond. [ She shakes her head ]

Tis hard enough to let your spouse in so deep, and then to sort out whose body is whose!... to let another, while your spouse was yet living... I cannot see how that would work.