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Spell: Following
You can make people first-level clerics of you.
To learn this spell, take the hand of someone eligible to be your cleric. Say, goloptywimple. Give them a valuable gift.
Spell: Resistance
You have some ability to ignore magical effects directed at you.
To learn this spell, cast another spell on yourself. As you do so, say, Jempi. Katsafgha.
Spell: Hold Person
You can cast the spell Hold Person at will.
To learn this spell, touch someone. Say, Enefti. Freb.
"I - wish it felt like there was a way to get a father for your child without marrying him but maybe Liar marriage is so different that this is just a silly concept."
"Maybe. I guess I can think of things it might mean but they mostly sound silly. Or bad."
"Not really? Like - if you meant to do all of that stuff only when the child was a baby then it would be very nice but I don't think anyone would treat you as the baby's father, and if you meant to live with me and take care of the child for their whole childhood then - I think everyone in my crew would kiiind of be confused about what I meant if I told them we weren't married."
Headshake. "Cause we die, you know, and because one of the partners can always get sold off. People mostly do stay together until one of those things happens, though."
- nod. "Okay. I think - you are doing a different thing than us. And - it might be that in a few hundred years of being free, the thing you're doing will change. But right now you've just got to do the best you can within it, probably."
She scans the demiplane and decides to head over to - Valentine looks busy, so - maybe the Osirians? Yeah. She can go ask the Osirians about how free Liars do marriage.
"Hi."
"Coping. Uh - Fëanáro thought maybe I should ask some of the free Liars here about their conceptions of marriage, since - I guess it's possible that mine are pretty shaped by slavery, and stuff."
"That makes sense. Uh, I know a lot about how marriage works in Osirion and a little about how it works in other places in our world."
"In Osirion women marry shortly after they become adults, usually. Men marry later, when they're around thirty. That's because men and women have different responsibilities in marriage, and women are usually ready for theirs when they're twenty and men usually aren't. When someone is ready to get married, they go to their parents for advice; their parents will look for suitable people for them, and they'll meet those people and spend time together and talk about what's important to them and figure out whether they might do as a husband or wife. If everyone thinks it's a good match, they'll start to plan a wedding, which is a ceremony where the man and the woman make promises to each other about how they mean to live their lives.
The man promises that he will honor his wife, and protect her and provide for her and for her children, and be good to her and greet her with love. And the woman promises that she will be faithful to her husband, and take guidance from him, and obey him and use his money wisely and raise his children to honor him, and be good to him and greet him with love.
And then they are married, and they usually move into the husband's home but sometimes they get their own place to live together, if they can afford it, and they are married until one of them dies except under very unusual circumstances."
"Huh. I guess most of that makes sense. Why does only the woman promise to be faithful and to obey and to use money wisely?"
"Under some circumstances men can take another wife - they usually shouldn't, it's only right under exceptional circumstances, but it's sometimes permitted so the vows don't rule it out. Women cannot take another husband. In Osirion, men mostly earn money but women mostly spend it, because looking after the needs of the household is their responsibility, so he promises to provide and she promises to use the money he provides wisely. Women obey their husbands because they have more perspective, and more education, and a good husband will be a good person to look to for guidance. If a man doesn't seem worth obeying then one shouldn't marry him."
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