#also 99% of the Sagas are about odin hooking up. THIS GUY FUCKED THE EARTH LIKE SERIOUSLY.

[halforc-mercenary]

Valentinian I - How important is traditional masculinity to your character?

This is actually a tricky question, as Mar has not exactly a concept of “traditional maculinity”. After all, Mar grew up in the Arathi Highland udner a strict military philosophy: If one was born male or female was not important, what was important was that the child was healthy and would be able to serve the community either as a warrior or in another way. Accordingly most children were trained and therefor most people she interacted with, men or women, were all build with a backs as broad as the door, have long hair as a symbol of the free born human, have arms as thick as treetrunks and are agressive enough to make a Foresttroll whimper like a scared kitten. The only difference was that one part of the community is able to grow a beard and another half is able to  give birth to children.So is traditional masculinity bound to just “not beeing able to bear children, but grow a beard”? Not in the slightest, as after all she also grew up as a human worshipping Tyr, whom has if one would go a step farer into actual mythology, the most manliest familytree of all as he is the son of Odin and a male jotun with the name Hymer who had a fling with Odin and later gave birth to Tyr. Accordingly as those that are worshipped are molded afte rthe people worshipping,  giving birth is something that can be done by men and women and is not bound to a specific gender. Women can grow beards and men can give birth and that does not change anything in them beeing men and women and treated as such, and in the course of their lifes their gender again can change, just like the gender of the Titan (or god)  they worship changes after what they feel like.  Eventually it can be said that traditional masculinity has no importance for Mar since she simply has a very loose concept of Gender;  and masculinity just as femininity have in her worldview too little difference to be pinned down and eventually depend on the person presenting it.