Victoria Gaile
Victoria Gaile asked Sherwood Smith:

Hi! I was interested in the culture portrayed in the opening of Inda, with noble houses trading treaty-brides who grew up together with their betrothed. But the books quickly depart from this pattern, & never really return to it (because events warp it, so we only see damaged versions of it). Have you any stories that occur entirely within this culture? I'd like to see how it works when it's working. :)

Sherwood Smith I tried to demonstrate that with the generation around Inda and slightly above--for instance, I went into Cherrystripe's and Buck's personal lives extensively as representatives of how it generally worked just fine. Mama's and Stalgrid's lives showed how they got around it (the one traveling, the other, his wife pretty much ruled around him).

I do have some stories planned from the Time of Daughters, and hope to get to them!

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