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I kind of fell in love with Taiba and Relg this time around and ended up writing their epic 30K Very Special And Unique love-story, and then of course got my head flooded with their sons and daughters. One of whom I married off to Garion's eldest. (And boy does she make Polgara secretly flail. A lot. Not least because when you've grown up with a god singing you happy songs every morning as you wake up because he is JUST SO FUCKING HAPPY THAT YOU EXIST, sorceresses stop being quite so scary.)

So the Marags are this big gigantic happy and unique family and are all very puzzled that nobody outside of them seems to get their father's (dry as a fucking desert, flawlessly deadpan) sense of humour, and wander around coincidentally stealing brides and grooms from everyone else. (Entirely consensual stealing, mind - the spouse is always quite happy to come with them! The spouse's parents/family/whatever, sometimes not so much. So far Mara has poached spouses for his children from Tolnedra, Nyissa, Algaria and Ulgo, not counting Geran.)

celeloriel and I also decided that Ce'Nedra makes a lot more sense if you assume that a) dryads take about twice as long as humans to mature (so that emotionally/etc she's still more or less sixteen-eighteen even by the end of the Mallorean) and b) refined sugar is actually an addictive drug to dryads (drawn from Polgara's Disapproval at Belgarath giving them sweets in the Wood of the Dryads that once) and nobody realized that the Borune dryad women were actually still dryad enough that they are basically on the equivalent of speed all the time.

(Ce'Nedra was quite . . . . VEHEMENT about some things when she figured that out after a particularly bad winter when all luxury food shipments stopped.)

Khedan ([Thor]) and Lodar ([Loki]) are, unsurprisingly, way WAY more adjusted and not crazy as Silk and Velvet's kids, and as a team are absolutely terrifying and exist to give their royal cousin's majesty as many headaches as they can. (Their older sister married a Tolnedran noble-merchant and is currently attempting to eclipse her father as "richest person in the world".)

AND THEN THERE'S ZAKATH'S KIDS. :D One of whom I marry off to one of Urgit's daughters with Khedan functioning as more or less the relationship version of the cat who shows up demanding affection and adoration every six months or so.

Bwah. You know, I hadn't linked Hettar and Cougar together? But now that you've done it, they may explode in my head. (Beldaran, Garion and Ce'Nedra's eldest girl, is totally engaged to Hettar's eldest; the two of them mutually adore their girl, who is MtF. I decided that the Algarians are totally pragmatic about that, and it only gets tricky if actual dynasties are at issue, and even then, you can always get around it. Because I've decided the Algarians are pragmatic about a lot and side-eye their cousin-societies ALL THE TIME.)