Viera Mating Rituals:Fertility

Mating Rituals of the Viera
Fertility and conditions for becoming with child

It has been explained to me that the Ritual of Viera Mating is actually a sort of Magikal Fertility Rite. Just because a Viera has come of age and her sexual urge has awakened, it does not mean that she is fertile and able to become with child. The main purpose of the Mating Ritual is to gather a kind of life energy the Viera call “Marsc”. Each time a Viera completes the ritual, she gains Marsc and becomes one step closer to becoming fertile. How much a female gains each time depends on which element she is in tune with. Some elements are stronger than others and the stronger the element, the more the Viera can gain from it. If an element is strong then it has a great abundance of life energy, thus it has more it can give to a Viera who is in tune with it, as appose to a weaker element that has less life energy and thus less it can offer to a Viera. With this we can conclude that a Viera that is in tune with a strong element, will become fertile faster than a Viera who is in tune with a lesser element.

The strongest elements a Viera can be in tune with are the Sun and Moon. They are known as Reigning Independents for, according to Viera belief, these two elements “Reign” over all others and they can stand independent from all elements. Also these two can “control” other elements. For example, the Sun controls Fire and the Moon controls the tide. Because of this, Viera who are aligned with these elements can also gain from the elements that are under the control of the Sun or Moon. For example, a Viera who’s in tune with the Moon element will also gain from being close to the sea during her mating ritual.

A Viera who is in tune with the Sun or Moon can expect to gain enough Marsc from these elements to become fertile in two to four Flauna Cycles, that is to say 10 to 20 Hume years. The weakest elements a Viera can be in tune with are Flora and Fauna elements. They are weak because they depend on other elements to survive. For example, without Earth, Water and Sun, none of the Flora elements could be sustained. Thus Flora and Fauna elements have very little life energy to give any Viera that may have an alignment with them. A Viera who is in tune with these elements can expect to gain enough Marsc to become fertile in 8 to 10 Flauna Cycles, that is to say 40 to 50 Hume years.

With this knowledge, it is little wonder that there has not yet been a case of Viera pregnancy seen outside the Wood. I have been told that nearly all of the Viera that have left the Wood have come outside before they have come of age. For us to see a Viera become with child she will first have to come of age and then partake in the Mating Ritual for 10 to 50 years depending on her elemental alignment.

The number of children a Viera can have is also determined by her element. The Sun and Moon aligned Viera can only become pregnant once before her Marsc level returns to 0 and she must begin the Mating Ritual from the beginning before she can have another child. Flora and Fauna aligned Viera can become pregnant as many as five times before her Marsc level returns to 0.

So because Sun and Moon aligned Viera can become pregnant with more frequency than those with Flora and Fauna alignments, it does not necessarily mean they produce more children. The nature of the things seems to balance things out quite nicely.

There is an exception to the Sun and Moon aligned Viera having only one child each time her Marsc level fills to capacity and that being if she has twins. Though having twins is said to be very rare among the whole of the Viera Race. It is a great and highly celebrated event if a Viera should have twins and it is said to be the highest blessing and greatest gift the Gods can bestow.