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Too bad posts can't be pinned to the top in forum threads.
Since people apparently don't read previous comments, and the confusion has already been answered by multiple people.... @ everybody still confused or just too lazy to click "Read older comments" at the bottom of the page:
^So to sum up/recap: Kazura is (25).
Zirconia (26) married Nelson at 16-17 after she joined the army, when Nelson saw her military prowess.
She's the 2nd wife, not the first (who is dead, presumably).
Thus, she is Lieze's (14-15) step-mother. Not her biological mother.
Lieze was already 11 or so years old when her father remarried.
Zirconia and Nelson married out of convenience. She still has trauma given her past of witnessing her entire village/parents/sister get murdered and raped, where she was the only survivor. So it is not unusual to see her react this way at the start of the chapter thinking she was going to be doing it, and therefore also not unusual to assume that both Zirconia and Nelson are abstaining from sex from the start, otherwise her PTSD will get triggered again.
@givemersspls
No. Plenty of women died during/after childbirth (some say as many as over 1 in 3 deaths) in the ancient and medieval world far more than they do nowadays (thanks, modern medicine) and those odds only go up the younger they are if they're not yet fully developed, especially given their lack of understanding of modern sanitation. Of course, they also did not have C-section either without outright expecting a mother to die in the process. Exceptions are not the norm.
Since people apparently don't read previous comments, and the confusion has already been answered by multiple people.... @ everybody still confused or just too lazy to click "Read older comments" at the bottom of the page:
^So to sum up/recap: Kazura is (25).
Zirconia (26) married Nelson at 16-17 after she joined the army, when Nelson saw her military prowess.
She's the 2nd wife, not the first (who is dead, presumably).
Thus, she is Lieze's (14-15) step-mother. Not her biological mother.
Lieze was already 11 or so years old when her father remarried.
Zirconia and Nelson married out of convenience. She still has trauma given her past of witnessing her entire village/parents/sister get murdered and raped, where she was the only survivor. So it is not unusual to see her react this way at the start of the chapter thinking she was going to be doing it, and therefore also not unusual to assume that both Zirconia and Nelson are abstaining from sex from the start, otherwise her PTSD will get triggered again.
@givemersspls
No. Plenty of women died during/after childbirth (some say as many as over 1 in 3 deaths) in the ancient and medieval world far more than they do nowadays (thanks, modern medicine) and those odds only go up the younger they are if they're not yet fully developed, especially given their lack of understanding of modern sanitation. Of course, they also did not have C-section either without outright expecting a mother to die in the process. Exceptions are not the norm.
