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So while I was re-reading chapter 20 of Subjugation to find the info on generations, I came across something else that made me go "hmmm" that I missed the first time around.

Referring to Jason himself:

By sending him that flower, Empress Dahnai was informing him that she was taking his hand in marriage.

There was never any mention of Jason and Jyslin's marriage having to be dissolved. And also there is this:

Your son’s marriage to my daughter will be paper, that’s it. They’ll both have their own lives, the only stipulations are really gonna be that he lives in her house and he can’t have an official marriage to another woman.

So it would seem that a male can have more than one wife. Is that correct? And does it go the other way also? At any rate, if it is allowed it must be really rare - to the point of being allowed but unheard of, since I don't remember reading about any marriage that is anything other than 1:1.

(I should probably admit here that I have more than the usual reader-type curiosity here. I've been thinking about doing a fanfiction in this universe and trying to get as many facts straight as I can, not wanting to step on Fel's toes.)

I don't recall any instances of legal polygamy per-se, but the Faey are so accepting of serious extra-marital relationships that I don't think they worry about a piece of paper stopping someone from having the relationship he wants to have.

-DM

Dahnai has the power to dissolve another's marriage if she decides she wants to marry a woman's husband.

You're correct that there's no polygamy in the Imperium. It's not that it's patently illegal, it simply isn't practiced due to the long-standing feudal nature of the Faey culture. Multiple husbands would complicate succession rights for daughters. It also has issues when dealing with a telepathic pair-bond, which reinforces a pair's preference for each other over everyone else.

However, as has been clearly demonstrated, though polygamy isn't practiced, the concept of monogamy is not. The two forms of amu are not only culturally accepted, they're highly romanticized. It's also not as common as you might think. Jason himself is exceedingly rare in that he has two amu, which is like .01% of the Faey population. Humans, however, are much more prone to amu, more able to expand the pair-bond to include another.

That proves that humans are pervs .... or if rich he/she/they are eccentric.

Fel wrote:Dahnai has the power to dissolve another's marriage if she decides she wants to marry a woman's husband.

You're correct that there's no polygamy in the Imperium. It's not that it's patently illegal, it simply isn't practiced due to the long-standing feudal nature of the Faey culture. Multiple husbands would complicate succession rights for daughters. It also has issues when dealing with a telepathic pair-bond, which reinforces a pair's preference for each other over everyone else.

However, as has been clearly demonstrated, though polygamy isn't practiced, the concept of monogamy is not. The two forms of amu are not only culturally accepted, they're highly romanticized. It's also not as common as you might think. Jason himself is exceedingly rare in that he has two amu, which is like .01% of the Faey population. Humans, however, are much more prone to amu, more able to expand the pair-bond to include another.

That helps, actually. It was only going to be a throwaway line in a way, but those can sometimes be the worst...