I am specifically interested in nobility that were not part of a nation’s ruling dynasty. To my understanding, the reason monarchs and ruling dynasties in general married into other dynasties from across Europe was because no one else from their home nations was of a high enough “rank” to marry, so it was typically looked down on (as in the example of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife). However, given that other nobility wouldn’t have necessarily been affected by this restriction, how common would marrying someone from another nation have been for nobles in medieval and modern Europe, and how was this seen in different parts of Europe (if there was a difference in perception)?
Mako and Bolin are a firebender and an earthbender, having parents from the Fire Nation and the Earth Kingdom. As lineage becomes more convoluted, how will the avatar cycle adapt? Will it show itself by the first manifested element? Will the cycle cease to be relevant? I'd like to know your thoughts.
I'm guessing this is a fairly popular question, but I've yet to find a direct answer. I realize that this coupling is unlikely to begin with because of insular dwarf culture and different beauty standards, but does it ever happen? And if so, how is it viewed and what special conditions does it occur under?
Would something like a political marriage between, say, a Hlaalu and Redoran noble happen to make political ties or alliances between two Great Houses, or is marriage outside of your House shunned?
I haven’t figured out the beginning or end to this one but... Here goes.
Proofs:
• It’s really important to the Targaryens that they distill the “blood of the dragon” for some reason.
• Sometimes their babies are born misshapen, twisted, with wings and tails.
• “Fire & Blood” is the words of their house, and who knows what else.
Not so random conclusion:
At some point - a long ass time ago, before the doom - the Valyrians or Targaryens in particular were so afraid of their bloodline being wiped out that they cursed themselves with having dragons inside them (let me finish). Whenever a Targaryen baby is born misshapen it’s because everything but the dragon has been removed - removing all the human “blood” leaving only the “Fire” made flesh. In the ‘Sworn Sword’, Rohanne’s miscarriages are characterized by a thief coming in the night for the babies and I think this is exactly what’s happening to the Targaryens. Some supernatural force is consuming unborn Targaryens and leaving their dragon untouched.
Once I figure out if all the babies born at Dragonstone have been successfully born, that will solidify my theory. Aegon the conqueror coming to Westeros and setting up shop on an island only makes sense if your island is akin to Storms End And is impermeable to the magic that is stealing your children. If anybody had any other theories as to why the old way of Targaryens intermarrying can be important, please comment.
I reformed Germanic as cosmopolitan and am going for the indo-norse achievement. It would be really helpful if I could ally with one of the Indian empires against the other, but all of them "will not accept offers from infidels". Is this an Indian religion thing? And do they only intermarry with the same religion or other Indian religions too?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashaida_people
But according to historical Sudanese folklore, all of the Arab tribes who came to Sudan from the Hejaz region did?.
Was intermarriage even a thing between Celts and Saxons? Did they create truces/pacts of peace with hostages or wards?
For example, a Welsh chieftain sending his daughter to England to marry a Saxon lord to ensure peace (or something of that nature).
I think only Catholics should be able to marry people from the cult of saints and the Ursaline order.
Maybe they covered this in Korra (I haven’t watched it yet), but in ATLA, there’s never a fire bender married to, say a water bender. You’d think there’d be at least some mixing. Some bender might leave his home for whatever reason and settle in another place, meet someone, and fall in love, and have a kid skilled in bending not native to that land. Would have been an interesting angle to cover if you had a fire bender born to a mixed couple in the earth kingdom, for example. Would they be ostracized? They covered a lot of social issues in ATLA, this issue seems like prime territory for the show.
The changes to the Neo Gnostic holy sites are great, but I think there could be one more thing added to buff this heresy slightly: Allow intermarriage with Cetics. After all, Neo Gnosticism is Cetic + Catholic, so if they can marry regular Catholics, why not same Cetics as well?
I was thinking about modding the After the End Mod (but this would work in the AGOT mod, too) to make two cultures be rivals with each other for cultural reasons. Is there any way for me to accomplish this?
Finally, what happened to them when the Crusader States we’re finally conquered? Did any move to Europe?
I am just curious to get a sense of what the situation was like on the ground.
I have a question how common was it for the initial Cossacks and Russians settlers who conquered and latter settled in the Caucasus to marry an local. I am asking this because I read somewhere that whenever cossacks conquered any territory they used to marry local women very often (mainly because most if them where young men who were not married ) trough which they made better relationship with conquered natives(like Tatars,Buryats,yakuts and other native siberians) . So how common was it for them to marry a representative from Caucasus specially the likes of Ossetian,Georgians women who were also orthodox Christians like majority of the cossacks. I even read somewhere that initially many Don cossacks used to marry Turkish or Circassian women ,that Kuban cossacks have much more higher add mixture of middle eastern hablogroup compared to an average Ukrainian or Russians and that many married native women of Abkhazia, Mongolia and even Turkey and Korea during soviet purges and the period decossackization period.even the North Caucasus region there are huge cossack and slavic populations (like in stavorpool or any of the republics like North ossetia or karachay cherkasia or kabardino balkaria etc) Edit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuban_Cossacks
In the 3rd paragraph in modern kuban cossacks its said on how many of them got assimilated into the Abkhaz population
I find it kind of stupid that you can marry neighboring catholic king, but you can't cuck them. If paradox is against that, is there a mod that does that?
The karstarks always go on about how the Starks and karstarks are kin and killing them would make the stark kinslayers
But from neds time and beyond were the karstarks and Starks seen more kin then another northern families then intermarried with ?
Were they close houses outside of the intermarrying
Did the karstarks have some special status as family or blood to the Starks
Or was it just words and were the karstarks and Starks just another northern family to eachother ?
Edit: I know house karstark is founded by a younger son of the lord of winter fell
Do any of you run into the non-Jewish in-laws feeling the need to either tell you about some distant family member who is Jewish or as about your take on Israeli politics? Or is this just my insane mother-in-law and her latest husband’s family?
>Among Asian newlyweds, a different pattern emerges. Intermarriage rises steadily from 25% among those ages 15 to 29 years to 42% among those in their 40s. For those 50 years and older, however, the rate drops to 32%. A closer look at intermarriage among Asian newlyweds reveals that the overall age pattern of intermarriage – with the highest rates among those in their 40s – is driven largely by the dramatic age differences in intermarriage among newly married Asian women. More than half of newlywed Asian women in their 40s intermarry (56%), compared with 42% of those in their 30s and 46% of those 50 and older. Among Asian newlywed women younger than 30, 29% are intermarried. Among recently married Asian men, the rate of intermarriage doesn’t vary as much across age groups: 26% of those in their 40s are intermarried, compared with 20% of those in their 30s and those 50 and older. Among Asian newlywed men in their teens or 20s, 18% are intermarried.
What do you all think? Discuss. What accounts for the fact that younger AF are less likely to intermarry? It seems counter-intuitive, but statistics don't lie. Also, does the above distinguish native Asians from Asian Americans? Because if it did not, the intermarriage rates would be lower since native Asians have a higher chance of preferring Asians.
Thanks to u/testng123
