It’s true. Your character is probably married.
Most ven marry at the age of 16. Marriages are nothing more than contracts, peace accords, and land deals. The married couple seldom, if ever, meet before the wedding day.
I’ll be doing a big ol’ write-up about this later (in the Romance chapter), but until then, here’s what you need to know.
Your spouse can be an aspect. Doesn’t have to be. Making your spouse an aspect has obvious benefits (and drawbacks). Also, your spouse can take Season actions. Your spouse counts as a “second you” in terms of actions. Anything you can do, your spouse can do. So, while the Spy Master has his limitations and the Master of the Road has his, your spouse can do anything you can do.
(Anything you can do, I can do better…)
You also have to decide which of you is the “dominant” partner in the arrangement. If you are the dominant partner, the land belongs to you and your spouse is along for the ride. If your spouse is the dominant partner, you’re the one along for the ride.
The yvestra (dominant) takes care of the land. The land is the yvestra’s responsibility. Management, improvement, all that stuff. The yvestra makes all the decisions, has all the authority, has all the responsibility, has all the accountability.
The ytola (subservient) has no authority, no responsibility, no accountability. Also, the bureaucracy favors the ytola over the yvestra if that messy romance thing shows up and someone makes a stink about it. After all, the yvestra is supposed to be the responsible one, right?
Also, if the yvestra dies, a new yvestra is usually found (by the parents of the first one). If an ytola dies, the yvestra finds a new one. As far as the law is concerned, the ties to the old ytola’s family are cut–unless some manner of exception was made in the marriage contract.
I assume your lands are a combination of all the holdings you own and your spouse brought to the marriage.
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See what happens when someone asks a simple question? Geez. Need that Stafford Rule.