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Iobel writes to both parents with the news.
Kalars writes back; she has his utmost sympathy, but if she doesn't want a visit he doesn't need to be there for his own sake.
Raney doesn't write back; she just turns up the next day, dwarf caiman familiar tucked under her arm.
She wants to meet her son-in-law.
come_midnight
royal_pain
"They do that, I hear it's bad for your health. Misogynistic wedding vows, not even once."
come_midnight
"Ugh those vows who wrote those vows do I have the queenly power to make the standard set be something else?"
royal_obligation
Edarial explains how he is tackling this problem - he has to make the religion it's based off of be less sexist. Then he can actually rewrite the vows themselves.
"If we weren't king and queen, no one would care if we changed them for a wedding, but we are, so we're bogged down in tradition," he explains.
"If we weren't king and queen, no one would care if we changed them for a wedding, but we are, so we're bogged down in tradition," he explains.
come_midnight
"What a pity this isn't one of those countries where we're supposed to rule by divine right."
royal_obligation
"I know, right? I mean, it would bother me that such a thing existed, but - it's annoying for actually fixing annoying problems."
come_midnight
"Yeah. We have no real religious rank at all. Frankly, I'm very little impressed by any of the theology I'd encountered."
royal_obligation
"Maybe if the god were - understandable, but it's got these these illogical rules behind it, so. It's not the kind of thing I support, either, in what I've seen."
come_midnight
"It looks to me like they're trying to use a lot of posts of wood to prop up a lake. They're going to tremendous amounts of labor to give their beliefs somewhere to sit and they fall through anyway. I have vague memories of hearing that the Crown funds churches, can we stop?"
royal_obligation
"Yup. But we have to do it carefully, it's doing some charity work, too, and I don't want to rip that away entirely."
come_midnight
"Right. Replace it with more effective charities, ideally ones serving the same general area and population so individual people aren't resentful about having the rug pulled out from under them."
royal_obligation
"Right!" he agrees. "And then we can shoo the church to be misogynistic in a corner somewhere. Perhaps with the goblins."
come_midnight
"They can think kind incomprehensibly theological thoughts and possibly take up sock-stealing."
come_midnight
"My parents are both sort of passively religious, but in different ways, and not with enough fervor for any of it to get on me."