Teres

Okay, is it just me or do the Avar have wildly different names from each other? I swear, it sounds like they have at least two totally separate naming systems!

Ah, it's not just me.

Definitely not just you. Douglass clearly knew absolutely nothing about linguistics and didn't put in any effort whatsoever to even try to be consistent.

... Uh, how many Avar men die off for this to work? Assuming they have give birth to equal numbers of girls and boys, they don't have enough women for every man to have multiple wives.

It would make sense if only men were allowed to become Banes, hence all those toddlers (fucking TODDLERS) perishing by the hundreds every year were all boys, but that's not the case.

(And I'm not thrilled with the lack of space for either sex to be Just Not Interested.)

Ah, the good ole days of 90s fantasy when There Was No Gay. Or asexuality either, but then we're a myth, dontyouknow.

It's not dangerous for an seventeen to nineteen year old to get pregnant, my issue is that they seem to have a 'quiverfull' mindset which suggests very bad things about their birth spacing and allowances for the mother's health.

Oh yeah, just how many of these girls are dying in childbirth? My guess would be a LOT.