Society And Culture

=Society And Culture= The Drakonian people have very complicated sexual relationships.

Marriage
For example what we'd normally call a marriage does exist. Officially, marriages are conducted by a female publicly stating that she is ready to pair with a husband. Once this announcement is made, it is broadcast to the entire empire, for all to see. At this point any male suitors wishing to pair with her will come to her home town of residence and engage in trials and challenges for one year. At the end of 400 days, she will chose which suitor has won the series of trials and challenges. This winner will be her husband. At which point she will officially leave her father's affiliation (House, Clan, Tribe, ect.), and become a member of her husband's at which point her name will change from the Given name of her birth, to the following; Given name of birth, (Second Given name if applicable) Husband's Tribe, Husband's Clan, Husband's House. Cognomen, and then Agnomen. (Male names at birth are Given name of his birth (Second Given name if applicable) Tribe, Clan, House. Cognomen, and then Agnomen)

Marriage in Drakonian Society is for life, that is, life-long mated pairs. A wife may take on additional husbands, up to three in total, each requiring the previously acquired husbands' permission and approval.

Males may sell or barter breeding rights for other males with their wives. Such arrangements are only valid for 40 days.

Children birthed from breeding arrangements are either legally the Husband who bartered the arrangement's children, who's training, eduction and upkeep expenses are paid for by the breeding partner male and may inherit any portion of the husband's wealth and/or noble titles, the husband chooses upon his death. Or... They are the legal children of the male breeding partner, who may inherit the breeding male partner's assets upon death, but not noble title(s).

Any marriage after the first, may be dissolved by a husband who is not the primary husband, in order to attempt to become the husband of another female. Doing this however absolves any previous marriage he was a participant in.

Any children birthed to non-primary husbands are legally the children of the first husband, but may inherit the assets and/or titles from any of the husbands within the marriage as they see fit to leave them to their offspring. If a husband leaves the marriage to join another marriage, he takes the youngest child birthed to him with him. All other children stay with the primary marriage couple.

Sexuality
Unlike in human societies, there is no social stigma against having sexual relationships outside of marriage. In part, this is because females can only become pregnant when they want to. They voluntarily release certain pheromones into their bodies, that allow them to get pregnant for 5 days. Once this period is over, she must wait another 40 days to do it again. Males are always virile until death. Sex in every way, shape or form is common in Drakoinian society, even in public, which often leads to conquered peoples calling them hedonistic. However, if a woman is married, she is expected to have sexual intercourse with her husband(s) and breeding partners only. There is no such consideration for males.

Gender Roles
All males and females of Drakonian society undergo co-ed combat and survival training from the age of 8 though twenty-four. After this however, they split into traditional gender roles with the females being stay at home mothers, stay-at-home wives, teachers, nurses, secretaries, and become the primamry caregivers and nurturers of children. Men then occupy every major political, military, religous, social and economic positions of importance, power and authority. The rule of thumb is that the higher up in life the position is, the higher the male to female ratio is of those who occupy it.