On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 11:05:00PM +1000, Brett Kruger wrote:
> "In general, wives (like land) tend to be apportioned according to
> the social level of the male. Lower-class families usually consist
> of a male with a single wife, while upper-class families may have
> several wives married to a single male. It is rare for more than
> four or five wives to be found in any one family (a good way to
> establish this is to roll 1D - 1 when constructing a family unit)."

Funny!  I could see it almost exactly the opposite way around: a rich
wife can acquire and support a husband by themselves, with all the
associated military expenditures and maintenance of land-related
operations.  Poorer ones may have to make do with pooling their
resources with other women to support a male -- and generally one of
lower status.

This is of course totally contrary to canon, but it's interesting how
the conclusions vary simply due to what angle you look at things from.

- Tim