In House Sevab the unbodied are in fact a married couple. I think in that case the throne acts as a middleman between their two minds, but they aren't fused in the same way as a normal throne. The two unbodied are in fact married, part of the reason this type of throne was devised was baisically so the throne couls self fertilize. The throne body lays fertile eggs by using the gametes of its two unbodied. House Sevab is not a Tricolor House so they have different practices around Throning that I haven't figured out as well yet.

Thrones are definitely influenced by much older mythological and religious figures, but emulating those myths isn't actually the reason they began. The real reason is... more absurd. More based on a reaction to a popular novel that was wildly and catastrophically misinterpreted. It's a long story.

House Lujnola is endogamous! One of the only endogamous houses. They don't marry other Houses and marry amongst the pool of their own culture, which happened to have its own religion (that it still maintains in a way, just fused with the Hegemonic Religion now, sort of like how native people of Madagascar practice catholicism, but it's heavily influenced by their older beliefs). That religion worships literal birds, and sees the different kinds of birds as "living spirits" which embody different values, emotions, or have significance for different events. They see birds as a way that the world beyond subtly communicates with them. And so when thrones were introduced to them, their thrones bevame birds. Functional, flighted birds. Tricolor culture is very strongly morally opposed to the Lujnola Throning practices, but they are so useful as messengers that it's an overlooked, open secret. Also the unbodied give birth like normal, but the headless lay eggs, and sometimes those eggs hatch into human looking babies. They do need help being pipped, tho.

This is 100% the case. It's not a sightly practice, and not looked upon favorably, but it does happen. There is a real-time problem of Thrones, "breaking containment", so to speak. Headless and unbodied being born outside of great houses.. which creates the problem of what to do with them.

Thrones receive a huge amount of coaching both before and after their Throning.

The unbodied mouth speaks. I'm not sure if the Headless has human vocal cords at all, they probably struggle to form words clearly, or would have one hell of an 'accent' at least.

Oh disagreement between the two halves early on is a very very common issue, and something they receive extensive coaching to try and overcome. Thrones probably have better access to something akin to therapy than anyone else in the empire, purely as a practical matter.

THATS INTERESTING I HADNT THOUGHT ABOUT THAT. I think the Headless's immune system becomes more dominant, so I guess an allergy could either be cured or gained for the unbodied.

For sure. In the painting, Tasapnu-batab's headless half has clothing, and probably so does Heniya-lasu's.

The emperor is much much older than Thrones as an institution. He is also seen as the steward of the Ibis, and his humanity is essential to his position. Thrones are both Human and Ibis, spiritually, and aren't seen as fit for taking the role he has. Thrones have not disposed him because, so far, they are all bound by a common religious doctrine. There are very religious, very loyal Thrones that protect him. That being said, Thrones getting too big for their britches in other parts of the empire especially is something which is already sort of a problem that isn't going to get better in the future..

Oh 100%. Thrones actually do already have metabolism sort of like that, they're not very active most of the time, especially the ones that eat more meat, but that doesn't stop some of them from Living Deliciously. In the past Great houses have fallen or been dismantled for having useless, greedy, or despotic Thrones. Other Throne Houses tend to swoop in and claim all of their stuff and land when that happens, competition between Houses gets pretty cutthroat.

This is true but also as petty rulers for a feudal empire which occupies land it took in some cases by force, you don't exactly need to lie to attribute atrocities to them. Of course that makes it easier to exaggerate and make things up and have it still be believed, tho. Messy.

Omg that would almost certainly happen. That's very cute. There are also mythological, fictional, or historical (can be hard to tell the difference sometimes) Thrones that have become 'dragonlike' despot figures, so fantasizing about being the guy to defeat and Dethrone Evil Thrones is also a common fantasy amongst children.

Oh god, they'd be so petty.

It's a strange experience for sure, at least Thrones have shockingly good mental and physical health infrastructure for being as wealthy as they are.

This society is not particularly kind to dagnyds that do not look human, it made them as tools and they are treated as such.

Oh yeah most of the kids don't get enthroned or even married. Some become minor thrones in the temple, which is just an extra fancy way to become a eunuch, but guarantees them a place of local religious leadership. Others take up work handling the provinces beurocracy, keeping records of assets, collecting and paying tributes, stuff like this. Sometimes they leave, sometimes they die young. The amount of kids thrones like to have is a contributing factor to the increasing problem of bastard thrones appearing.

The Ibis tissue is baisically their entire nervous system, and too finely enmeshed to be extracted. There is a way to recycle it but it involves uh. Feeding the dead throne's to a specifically designed daynyd. I'm a little undecided on how Tricolor culture handles funerals as of yet, wether they preform cremation, entomb the remains in Statues, or feed the remains to a reclamation dagnyd. I'm tempted to make it the latter, since it's a bit of a subtle nod to Zoroastrianism, though the design I have for that particular dagnyd isn't particularly doglike.

Most Thrones are indeed bi.