What taboos exist in your setting?
>>97697366Handholding.
>a cult having a taboo on pedophiliaNever been around the fucking russellites I see.
How does a cult continue on its line if heterosexuality is a taboo?Clones?Immortality?Transmigration?
>>97697387l-lewd!
>>97697709Getting new members? The same way a celibate order of monks continues on.
>>97697709Grooming the children of others
>>97697647"Cult" is a very broad umbrella.
>>97697366> speaking to a member of differemt species or opposite sexUmmm based??
>>97697366>arsonThat's not a taboo, it's a crime.
>>97697366IDK IDC ask the worldbuilding general.
>>97698195No :)
>>97698167things can be both taboo and a crime
>>97697719>>97697722Effectively the same answer.
>>97697366Somehow, sleeping with another man's wife is not a taboo.
>>97699846It is by extension of • Heterosexuality• (possible) Lying• (possible) Making peace with a blood feud enemy• (possible) Rape• (likely) Speaking to a member of a different species or opposite sexDo you even rules-lawyer?
>>97697366This is retarded and written by commie faggots.>heterosexualityCannot ever be a fucking tabboo because then that society instantly stops fucking existing. Because there's no fucking babies to grow up to be the next lot of people.
>>97697387>>97697715Wasn't even funny the first time.
>>97699945>Everything I don't like is communismRetard.
>>97699945it's a cult, anon. It can be self-destructive. it can be a community of "chosen" practicing celibacy or any sort of weird sexual restriction. a cult doesn't have to be a coherent society.
>>97697366>your setting>your characterFuck off.
>>97697366>What taboos exist in your setting?Having NO Games.
>>97699945>Cannot ever be a fucking [taboo] because then that society instantly stops fucking existing. Because there's no fucking babies to grow up to be the next lot of people.Good, solid logic for our world, but a logic that doesn't consider magic or other supernatural/unnatural powers that can grant immortality, create clones or simulacra, transmigrate a soul, etc etc etc.You know, powers that are present in some games.
>>97699860>• (possible) Lying>• (possible) Making peace with a blood feud enemy>• (possible) Rape>• (likely) Speaking to a member of a different species or opposite sexThose could be all circumvented by existence of non-verbal custom for expressing interest/consent - such as offering a particular type of a gift / accepting such a gift. Right?Not my original idea, seen it in a doujin.
>>97699945>instantly stops existing>after everyone dies of old age>instantlyCan abuse of language be a taboo?
>>97700234I'll accept that.But there's still the heterosexuality thing.
>>97697366>Marriage is taboo>Bestiality is notYou disgusting fucking furry
>>97697366>heterosexuality>lying>marrying>murdering outside of a blood fued, but then also killing innocent right above it>speaking to a member of a different species or opposite sex>worshipping any gods>these are all considered TYPICAL taboosWhoever wrote this is a retard that deserves to be whipped with an electrical cord.
>>97702283Yes. They are very typical taboos FOR CULTS. Can't you fucking read the text. Hell, you want to know a religion that has marriage as taboo? Catholicism. For the clergy, but still taboo.
>>97697387>Handholding.Alright, that's it, we're overthrowing the government, the church, or whoever else is responsible here.
>>97702322No they are not typical taboos for cults. In fact those are very typical NORMS for cults. Stop defending retarded trash.>Hell, you want to know a religion that has marriage as taboo? Catholicism. >For the clergy, but still taboo.Oh, well, then that isn't a taboo then, is it, fucktard? It would say "Clergy Marrying".
>>97699945I would think so too but everyone knows that in the tranny cult the will never stop trying to groom people into their fetish, so that's pretty accurate.
>All these people saying heterosexuality is a stupid tabooHeavens Gate cut their nuts off in some cases and everyone sleeping with everyone (enforced pansexuality) was a noted part of several hippy cult communes back in the 70s as they tried to "Free love" their way into peace.
>>97703523A taboo is a norm, retard. It's something you're not supposed to do.
>What taboos exist in your setting?Lets see. The "not vampires" have a strong taboo against any intentional harm being done to the Dran. This is in part because they respect the Dran's understanding and ability to manipulate life essence, which is also something that the "not vampires" do. But also for the very practical reason of the Dran are responsible for relatively small land areas being capable of producing enough food to sustain walled cities through hyper productive gardens. This means "the stock"(aka everyone who the not vampires feed on) is healthy and well fed. Healthy stock means better "blood tax" can be collected. People of the Magedoms have a pretty strong taboo against fleshcrafting. The people of the magedoms are also quite uptight about deification and urination. With even mentioning ether in public in all but the most polite euphemisms being the cultural equivalent to yelling racial slurs in America. Everyone except the "not vampires" and Lizardmen have a taboo against using the dead as magical components. To the point that cremation is pretty standard across cultures to protect against the possibility of the practice. The nomatic people group of my setting have a strong taboo about living in one place for more than a whole cycle/year. Lizardmen have a taboo on killing livestock and then letting the slaughtered animal go to waste. For example if a sick animal that can't be safely eaten is killed, then they will at the very least use parts of the animal to craft things so as to not totally waste the livestock. There is the mage taboo of teaching or translating the arcane language to the "unworthy". Though who and who is not unworthy is constantly debated. Then there is the near universal but constantly broken taboo against creating Cimer, also known as "the motherless", which are artificially created beings who are made using magic rituals to be highly dangerous living weapons.
>>97697366The bisexual orgies of this cult have a strict no talking policy, especially cowardish words like "no", but not in a rapey way.They also don't worship a god so they're just kind of doing all that for the hell of it. Sounds like a good time.>>97702283What kind of self respecting cult categorizes people in groups they have a blood feud with as innocent
>>97704405And no one said those were good cults either.
>>97699945>Cannot ever be a fucking tabboo because then that society instantly stops fucking existingYou don't have to like the people you're sleeping with, Anon.
>>97708004Going a little bit more into this. In my sci-fi setting a species called the kyn evolved out of felinid pack-hunters with nesting behaviors I modeled after housecats. Females nested together in smaller territories, raising kittens (of both sexes) communally or semi-communally. When they came of age, males then left the community to become wandering hunter-herders, joining an all-male tribe. The females meanwhile eventually figured out agriculture and developed towns and cities.In kyn society, bisexuality or homosexuality was actually the norm because for tens of thousands of years your only neighbors were members of the same sex (or kittens, in the case of cities). Kyn came together every now and then for breeding purposes, but the males didn't typically live in the cities and females didn't tyically go out to live as hunter-herders.So heterosexuality would've been considered extremely weird. In males it would've been equated with wanting to live in cities and tying yourself down and not hunting for your food; while for females it would've been equated with, in essence, being a redneck or hinterland barbarian who wanders around and never owns anything.
>>97708030>being a redneck or hinterland barbarian who wanders around and never owns anything.If that's the price for becoming communal stress relief for thousands of catboys, I could imagine someone might be actually willing to pay it.
>>97708316Yeah but that's hetero. Plus everyone knows men aren't really capable of forming any real emotional attachment, or are even really sapient. They're just malformed copies of women, emotional, incapable of long-term planning, obsessed with stuff that doesn't matter, flighty...only two women can have a REAL relationship or love.I imagine at least some kyn philosophers - who would've been city-bound females - would have views of males similar to the ancient Greek view of women, which would then obviously influence their culture for thousands of years afterwards
>>97708346Sure, but there's always some degenerate that will put thrill of debauchery over serious commitment and building better future.
>>97697366There is a tabboo in my setting against conceiving children without the guidance and oversight of a fertility cult that forms the primary religion of the setting. This is because most people of common birth in the setting suffer from issues with infertility, hereditary diseases, genetic incompatability and mutations, so in order to have children most require aid to conceive healthy children, which is provided by the fertility cult. Thus, having kids outside of this guidance is seen as sinful due to the harm it exposes to any would be child.
>>97708387Post-apocalypse and there’s mutations, or does the fertility cult just have some kind of racket going?
>>97708383Sure, probably.Also worth noting that a lot of the way they act grew out of them being obligate carnivores (their agriculture grew as a means of feeding their prey species, they don’t directly benefit from it). But at the same time they’re not any more homogenous than humans. Coastal villages with very high offshore fishing in the tropical regions of the planet were more gender-integrated, with kyn men and women both living together and fishing/whaling together (which more traditional kyn found to be weird/unsettling). Meanwhile in colder steppe/polar regions where agriculture wasn’t possible you instead get mixed male/female nomadic tribes resembling Mongolians and the like, which were more traditionally patriarchal than matriarchal. Again, the majority of the kyn civilization thought this was weird.But to return to the original point, that’s how I’d make heterosexuality be taboo: a society that was culturally divided along sex lines and which viewed relationships or actual long-term attraction to members of the opposite sex as weird, because they usually only came together for procreation and/or trade during specific times of the year.
>>97708395It isn't really a typical post apocalyptic setting though technically it does fall into the category. It is a biotech focused setting taking place in a massive ruined City (a map of it I made pictured here), and the state of the populace within the City is due to a combination of rampant genetic manipulation and alterations done to humanity as well as a generations long civil war that wrecked the City, during which various bioweapons further fucked up the genetics of the people living in the City.The fertility cult rose to prominense in the waning years of the civil war due to the various health and infertility issues of the masses reaching a crisis point, and the cult offering solutions to them due to their founders still retaining sufficient medical and genetic knowhow to offer aid to the people. Over the generations it assumed more of a form of organized religion and rose in power, and by the contemporary era of the City their position is born out of as much as need for their existence due to the still existing fertility issues among the populace, religious devotion of the populace and their own enforcement of the near monopoly on reproduction the cult holds over the commoner masses of the City. So in some way, it is kind of a racket but it was born out of a very real need. However if the cult vere to fully fix the issues humans have with reproduction via genetic engineering and eugenics etc, they would abolish the reason for their own existence. The leadership of the cult is aware of this which is why they seek to maintain the status quo of the populace rather than fully fix them.
>>97697366Casting spells above level 6. The leylines got severely depleted during the past wars, to the point it threatens the entire plane's stability, so using up too much magic is forbidden. Even lvl 6 spells are generally frowned upon unless there was a damn good reason for it
>>97708436The cult or "Sisterhood of Cleansing Rebirth" as they are called also maintains a military force that exists to protect their temples as well as enforce and spread their religious dogma within the City. There are surviving "tribal/feral" populations of commoners within the City that live outside of the control of the cult, and due to the evolutionary pressures their ancestors faced over the generations of struggling with infertility and health issues with only the ones capable of reproducing successfully passing on their genes, these "feral" populations are actually generally more healthy and virile than the more civilized commoners living under the guidance of the Sisterhood. Spreading the Sisterhood's dogma to these ferals and ensuring that they don't undermine the Sisterhood's monopoly on reproduction is one of the agendas of the Sisterhood in the long term.
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>>97708517I assure you, that the decision to make the aesthetics of the Sisterhood kind of perverse and sexualized stemmed largely from my worldbuilding, rather than solely out my own sex pervert desires. The thinking being, that it would make sense for a fertility cult operating in a setting built upon biotechnology, would adopt rather seuxalized aesthetics and place ritual and symbolic signifigance on both male and female sexual traits. It would also not really make that much sense for them to be overtly prudish either, because the taboos they have aren't really around sex, but unsanctioned/unguided conception, and due to the infertility issues of the massed and the need for medical aid for reproduction for most of the commoners, the act of intercource and conception are actually rather divorsed within the setting.
Working on one with a sort of steppe nomad culture who have various domesticated animals like horses, dogs and falcons for hunting and transportation, but they only eat wild animals they've hunted and consider eating companion animals a kind of cannibalism because they're a part of their society. This, naturally, creates a lot of tension with the neighboring cattle-raising cultures.
Space samurai/viking warrior poets descended from gangsta rappers whose social standing is largely determined by how many grievous wounds they've survived in battle. Their greatest warriors have extensive cybernetic enhancements and it's considered a very serious offense to get implants without "earning" them in combat. Stolen Valor and all that.
>>97697366Nonhuman races have inbuilt taboos.>ElvesDo not disrupt social harmony. (This happens a lot, because elves tend towards chaotic alignments.)>DwarvesTheir religion has an omen:>"No dwarf shall dig too deep, no light shall be brought to the uncracked depths, for any dwarf who does so will bring misfortune, misery, and destruction upon all his people, and all will share in his folly."Because dwarves tend towards good alignments, edging past the line of the law, which usually is set well-outside of what most elders would say is too deep, is often forgiven, especially as it's typically done so for obtaining more resources for the mountainhome. It's the thin end of the wedge for them, as precedent keeps making the "wholly unacceptable" amount past the line move slowly over time.>HalflingsHalflings have a pair of direct commands from their deity:>My people shall not hold onto coin of gold, silver, or platinum which exeeds the weight of three oxen for longer than two years.>My people shall not conspire together in groups more than five to pillage riches, magic, or land.Breaking these rarely actually happens, but it's rumored that they did occur in the past a lot more. This prevents them from creating large societies. Breaking either causes said halfling(s) to slowly, painfully transform into gnomes (which are physically like a cross between non-undead ghouls and gollum) over the course of a week and then magically vanish.>GiantsThey cannot stay in one place for too long and have to perform rituals daily, which includes consuming some food or drink made from a variety of herbs and other ingredients, else they start to turn to stone.Humans have more "cultural taboos" instead. For example, the LE city-state run by antipaladins is paranoid about their advanced alchemical tech being obtained by outsiders, so they keep a ready stock of their traditional arms and armor for those going abroad (pilgrimages, recruiting, questing, etc.)
>>97697366Sucking dick unless you are a gay man.
