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Dennis
Great Reader
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 Posted - 22 May 2011 : 17:16:10
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No more RW comparison this time, please.
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Originally posted by Dennis
I watched the Korean film A Frozen Flower that tells the story of a homosexual king who fell in love with one of his warrior-guards. The king could not bear to copulate with his wife, and instead asked his "lover" to do it with the queen, so the dynasty would be preserved. And following that is disaster after disaster...
I wonder, what would happen should one of the kings in Faerun happen to be gay? Would he do what the aforementioned king did to safeguard the throne, or would he denounce his "inclination"? But I guess depending on how open-minded the kingdom is, the king could just keep a number of male lovers [instead of concubines] and a wife. But that still leaves one issue: marriage. Can the king marry both his male lover and the woman chosen by the Council?
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Originally posted by Xar Zarath
And to the whole gay king thing, i think the king could marry a guy, but out of obligation he would have to sire a child to continue his line, so maybe it will be the whole consort thing, it be funny though if it were like henry the eight and gay warrior guard like anne boleyn.
A gay king would no longer find it necessary to have a wife [to produce an heir] if intends to rule forever, via life-prolonging spells or wish spells cast by his Royal Wizard. That kind of king is more predisposed to engage in open gay marriage.
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
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Posted - 22 May 2011 : 18:18:32
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Sorry, but some scribes proved unwilling to separate the Realms from the real-world, in the previous version of this thread, despite repeated warnings about that. I don't see what's going to keep that from happening again.
We'll reopen the original thread, sooner or later, but for now, I've got to close this thread. I'm sorry, because it was a worthy discussion before it was willfully disrupted.  |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
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Posted - 23 May 2011 : 03:09:28
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Indeed. And I'll just add that newly created topics which seek to re-open such previously sealed discussions should, at the very least, be discussed with a Moderator before being opened.
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Gay marriage...Continuation, if I may?
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