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General Earwa / Re: Iëva's age?
« on: July 05, 2017, 03:20:28 pm »I see, yeah, I misunderstood what you were getting at, but that makes sense. I have little doubt that they were forced to consummate the marriage and perhaps, in doing so, that is the sin that Iëva was seeking to circumvent, via the Consult? It's hard to imagine one so young having a litany of deep sins...although it is possible.
It's also possible that once she had flowered, possibly other measures were taken to avoid such an early pregnancy. That could well be more on the ledger of "sins" she sought reprieve from. We really don't know much about such things on Eärwa, but there could well be something of a "puritanical" culture out there, somewhere, of which she could well have been raised in.
She could well have taken to other measures to avoid the problem all together. "Morning after" contraception existed in ancient times, of course of various effectiveness. Abortion could well be another of her "sins."
Contraception of any kind is seen as equivalent to abortion in plenty of cultures
I thought of those possibilities, but I kept wondering if it wouldn't be fairly difficult for her to have access to any of those, seeing as she was a child bride in the court of her husband's family, and presumably would have had few allies, not to mention someone who could help with actively preventing the birth of any children of royal blood (which might qualify as treason?). But she could have indeed have had someone to supply her with some kind of contraceptive or abortifacient, maybe even an agent of the Consult later on?
Those could in fact be her "sins" (or some of them), I hadn't thought of that. Abortion or something which was seen like abortion would likely qualify as enough to damn her in Eärwa.
I do wonder how and why she died 6 years later though...
Could be the suspicion of her complicity in NC's death only came later, after the second round of poisoning took place with the other victim.
You're right, Somnambulist, we might be biased by the fact it's widely known she poisoned him 2000+ years after the fact. Who knows if she'd have even been suspected of anything at the time, it might be a case of it becoming a theory most historians believed to be true an unknown number of years after it took place.
I'm also very curious about her death 6 years later, that probably lends credence to the possibility no one suspected her of murder right away (unless she was imprisoned instead of executed like I theorised before). I wonder if the Consult had something to do with it...
Plausible, but that was in 2142, so she lived another 4 years after.
2146 also marks Celmomas' death and the defeat at the Fields of Eleneöt. Possibly she was there as well, perhaps as a part of some royal escort? Or, perhaps she realized she was forsaken by the Consult and the remaining Anasûrimbor and killed herself? That seems unlikely, given that she knew she was damned though.
That's right, so that would be another possibility.
I could see her committing suicide if she had some realization there was no way to escape her damnation after all, and was overwhelmed by despair.