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[Acanthus117]

More like FAILcest!

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[The_Rabbit]

Marrying one's cousin is not considered incest in a pretty large portion of the world's cultures. Furthermore, having a child with one's cousin entails about the same risk as having a child over the age of 40, so If you're hoping for dwarves with 3 arms then you'll be disappointed.

Just wait till we get some Oedipus incidents.

[Acanthus117]

Marrying one's cousin is not considered incest in a pretty large portion of the world's cultures. Furthermore, having a child with one's cousin entails about the same risk as having a child over the age of 40, so If you're hoping for dwarves with 3 arms then you'll be disappointed.

Just wait till we get some Oedipus incidents.

DWARF OEDIPUS AGHH!

[Djohaal]

My latest advisor was the queen consort's mother... I always thought they were scheming to dump the king and control the empire. Funnyly though when disaster came the king was first to die.

(He was awesome though, slayed 2 titans and one cyclops, and only lost his big toe on his left foot!  )

[Aspgren]

Marrying one's cousin is not considered incest in a pretty large portion of the world's cultures. Furthermore, having a child with one's cousin entails about the same risk as having a child over the age of 40, so If you're hoping for dwarves with 3 arms then you'll be disappointed.

Just wait till we get some Oedipus incidents.

A relative of mine is a nurse. She has informed me that there are some inherited diseases that (she didn't give me examples) that affect the child when transmitted from both parents. If it's in your family, then it needs to be "watered down" further than to the cousin level to be okay. So while the risk of "omg inbred retard" is small - there are most definitely complications.

Take this for what it's worth though. She IS a nurse but she has only been so for a few years and it was just a brief, undescriptive discussion we had.

My latest advisor was the queen consort's mother... I always thought they were scheming to dump the king and control the empire. Funnyly though when disaster came the king was first to die.

(He was awesome though, slayed 2 titans and one cyclops, and only lost his big toe on his left foot!  )

ARGH! MY ACHILES TOE!

[Karnewarrior]

this thread disgusts me.

[Acanthus117]

we're in the same boat.

[lordnincompoop]

Marrying one's cousin is not considered incest in a pretty large portion of the world's cultures. Furthermore, having a child with one's cousin entails about the same risk as having a child over the age of 40, so If you're hoping for dwarves with 3 arms then you'll be disappointed.

Just wait till we get some Oedipus incidents.

A relative of mine is a nurse. She has informed me that there are some inherited diseases that (she didn't give me examples) that affect the child when transmitted from both parents. If it's in your family, then it needs to be "watered down" further than to the cousin level to be okay. So while the risk of "omg inbred retard" is small - there are most definitely complications.

Take this for what it's worth though. She IS a nurse but she has only been so for a few years and it was just a brief, undescriptive discussion we had.

Also, if the cousin incest goes on long enough (over generations etc.) the complications and degeneracy probably stacks up so in the end you get an inbred, retarded mutant baby anyway.

[The_Rabbit]

Even so, many of the cultures that practice cousin-based marriage have rules and customs regarding that which promote such huge family sizes and selective marriages that, over the generations, there's still a great deal of mixing going on.

Instead of, say, the same two or three royal families passing back descendants, you end up involving a pretty large number of people in the same "family." When most people think of cousin marrying they freak out, but that's in large part because they're applying the nuclear family model to it, which would create monstrous humanoids over very few generations.

I would name my 4 arm baby Goro.

[Quantum Toast]

I think you've found a sane dwarf. Other than the whole incest thing.

Well, incest is supposed to result in messed-up children, right? But since dwarves are already so weird...

[smjjames]

Marrying one's cousin is not considered incest in a pretty large portion of the world's cultures. Furthermore, having a child with one's cousin entails about the same risk as having a child over the age of 40, so If you're hoping for dwarves with 3 arms then you'll be disappointed.

Just wait till we get some Oedipus incidents.

A relative of mine is a nurse. She has informed me that there are some inherited diseases that (she didn't give me examples) that affect the child when transmitted from both parents. If it's in your family, then it needs to be "watered down" further than to the cousin level to be okay. So while the risk of "omg inbred retard" is small - there are most definitely complications.

Take this for what it's worth though. She IS a nurse but she has only been so for a few years and it was just a brief, undescriptive discussion we had.

One family with inbreeding like that has already been mentioned, the Haspburgs, who are well known for having haemophilia (the blood doesn't clot) running in their family.

Its not just inbreeding that can do this, theres the founder effect since you're starting with a small genepool and the incidence of a genetic disorder will be magnified.

Regarding the incest stuff, the Egyptans took it to the max level and often did sibling marriage.