Sexuality in Liminal

Humans & Halflings

X

The Mingled

Half-elf, half-orc, tiefling, changeling, genasi

Feyborn

Elf, eladrin, gnome, drow

• Harmalidil: Young feyborn often form small groups of close compatriots and lovers. The term harmalidil roughly means "treasured lovers", and it describes these small social groups perfectly. They often evolve their own miniature traditions and cultures within the group, and most are formed by similar-aged feyborn and last until responsibilities and simple age cause them to drift apart. Even so, the fond memories and lingering affection usually maintain long-standing bonds between those members, and often inform how they interact, even later in life. Many eladrin tales are written of those political or magical rivals who were once lovers in the same harmalidil. Among those outside the Feywild who have adopted this tradition, they are called "love-pacts," and sometimes embraced as life-long groups (understandable to Feywild sensibilities, for most pacts among the feyborn last about the average span of humans).
  • Harmalidil'en: There are a few pacts called harmalidil'en, or "great harmlidil" - these are groups that have existed for multiple generations, older members taking their leave, and younger members joining over the decades. Such "great pacts" invariably have their own very powerful memberships, and those who once belonged to them actively sometimes arrange to "come home" to be among sweet lovers who welcome them back, sheltering them from the weight of their responsibilities for a time.

Dwarves

• The Dwarf-Rite: The dwarf-rite is a ritual that bonds two dwarves (male, in traditional dwarven culture) together in a bond of marriage. Because of the gender imbalances in dwarven children (only one in five or so are female), dwarven society has developed a place for paired-off males who share a vocation. The term for these pairs is gudr in Dwarven, which doesn't have a good translation in Common (though it is sometimes translated as "brother"); this is usually paired with a term that describes the vocation they share. So, aszgudr are "shield-brothers," the term for dwarven warrior-lovers, and kholgudr are "forge-brothers." It should be noted that this rite is forbidden to women who love other women, due to the traditional necessity of female dwarves as breeding mothers (a position that has caused no small measure of strife for those poor dwarf-women who do not wish that life for themselves).

Dragonborn & Kobolds

X

Orcs

X

Goblinkind

Goblin, hobgoblin, bugbear

Shadar-Kai

X

Gith

X

Gnolls

X

Mountainborn

Goliaths, minotaurs

Wilderfolk

Shifters, wilden

Automatona

Shardminds, warforged