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aldersprigMarch is Worldbuilding Month! Leave me a question about any of my worlds, and I will do my best to answer it!
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This third one is fromrix_scaedu:
If the Family in the Aunt Family occasionally splits off anew Family with a new Aunt, where was the original Family? Is it still there? Is there some Family version of “the old country”?
That’s complicated!
Because sometimes branches die out. It requires at least two sisters, after all (or sometimes in rare occasions, brothers, but that’s, as said, rare, and very frowned on, and such), one of which (again, in most cases), remained unmarried, childless, and near her sister’s family. It requires that unmarried sister to at least have the strength to carry the power, and the family branch to have enough power to invest in her.
Sometimes branches are actually wiped out, but that is a rare occurrence in the modern day.
Let’s see.
The original Family came out of England and Germany, and for a long time (legends notwithstanding) was not nearly as formalized an arrangement as it is in the modern day. When the family that believed itself to be the root family moved to the US, they left behind no other sibling groups, but there were several members of the family who were related, carried the spark, and eventually had children of their own.
Note: Not everyone who has power is related to the Family, but they are a broad and deep family-grove with many scions over, by the point, most of the world.
The “original” family at this point would be considered the one that can trace its ancestry back in an unbroken line of Aunts to the first Aunt in America. That actually is Evangaline’s line. It was an aunt of her line who came up with the ritual that collects the power of an already-psychically-skilled family and concentrates the larger portion of it into one person, allowing the family as a whole to have more power than they would otherwise, and allowing the power to be used and directed for bigger and bigger uses.
That happened prior to coming to the U.S., but it was believed, when they moved, that they had brought their entire family and thus their entire power structure with them.
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rix_scaedu:If the Family in the Aunt Family occasionally splits off anew Family with a new Aunt, where was the original Family? Is it still there? Is there some Family version of “the old country”?
That’s complicated!
Because sometimes branches die out. It requires at least two sisters, after all (or sometimes in rare occasions, brothers, but that’s, as said, rare, and very frowned on, and such), one of which (again, in most cases), remained unmarried, childless, and near her sister’s family. It requires that unmarried sister to at least have the strength to carry the power, and the family branch to have enough power to invest in her.
Sometimes branches are actually wiped out, but that is a rare occurrence in the modern day.
Let’s see.
The original Family came out of England and Germany, and for a long time (legends notwithstanding) was not nearly as formalized an arrangement as it is in the modern day. When the family that believed itself to be the root family moved to the US, they left behind no other sibling groups, but there were several members of the family who were related, carried the spark, and eventually had children of their own.
Note: Not everyone who has power is related to the Family, but they are a broad and deep family-grove with many scions over, by the point, most of the world.
The “original” family at this point would be considered the one that can trace its ancestry back in an unbroken line of Aunts to the first Aunt in America. That actually is Evangaline’s line. It was an aunt of her line who came up with the ritual that collects the power of an already-psychically-skilled family and concentrates the larger portion of it into one person, allowing the family as a whole to have more power than they would otherwise, and allowing the power to be used and directed for bigger and bigger uses.
That happened prior to coming to the U.S., but it was believed, when they moved, that they had brought their entire family and thus their entire power structure with them.
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Date: 2017-03-12 02:48 am (UTC)So how is a "branch" of the family created? Two sisters have to leave together, splitting from the main family?
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Date: 2017-03-15 06:15 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2017-03-16 05:08 am (UTC)One version of the family tree has Owen, Fallon, and [Chalce, Stone, Beryl, and Amy's mother, who I think elsewhere is called Hadelai] as Eva's siblings, so in theory any of their female children who has at least one sibling (which Anna-Marie doesn't yet, but may by the time she's old enough to be a candidate) could be the next Aunt. Eva's young, though, so hopefully that's a ways off ...
ETA: That said, keeping track of who a brother's children are could certainly become a bit more complicated ...
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Date: 2017-03-16 10:14 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2017-11-02 04:52 pm (UTC)Oooooooooooooo, one of my favorites. I did not realize why they wanted the power in one person. I can see the logic. I wish it was not so... strongly enforced and the Aunt's life so regimented.
Interesting stuff!
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Date: 2017-11-02 04:56 pm (UTC)(And if it weren’t, I’d have such a different story setting)...