#askgorgon

I'm sorry my answer is so late!

Cocoa beans are cultivated in the Midland Jungle of Serkel, so chocolate products are cheapest and most abundant in Matuzu Kingdom. However, many northern cultures like Zareen Empire, Folkvar Kingdom, and Evangeline Kingdom love chocolate precisely because it's rarer and more exotic to them. In these lands, chocolate has more value and is seen as something special, so it's a must for all special occasions. In Matuzu Kingdom, it's more of a cheap peasant food.

Zareen Empire has cheap, mass-produced chocolates like the SnipSnap bar, which contain very little real chocolate and are eaten casually by regular people. The Zareenites have developed technologies to simulate chocolate flavors synthetically. If you want the real Matuzan stuff, you will pay much more.

Evangelites use chocolate in many ways, but most famously for making chocolate chip cookies. These are practically a staple in the Evangelite diet. Chocolate can be expensive here, but since such a small amount is used in these cookies, even poor Evangelites can still afford to enjoy them pretty often.

The Uekorans use it to make bonanchi, a sweet biscuit with banana slices and chocolate spread. Uekoro is a Matuzan territory, so chocolate is very cheap here. It's so abundant that Uekorans are actually kinda sick of it and only use it in small amounts.

Back to Zareen Empire for a moment, we have the stone cake. Actually stone cake can be any flavor, but chocolate and peanut butter are the classics. Chocolate in particular gives it that incredibly rich flavor that many consider overpowering.

I don't think anyone loves chocolate more than the Folkvarans. It's considered exotic, top-tier cuisine in this kingdom, so when they decide to eat chocolate, they go hard with it. Folkvaran fudge is famous around the world. They are also known for their pudding, and chocolate is the most popular flavor locally. They'll work chocolate into anything: chocolate sprinkles on icecream, chocolate syrup on pancakes, chocolate spread on toast, chocolate milk, chocolate bars, chocolate bread...they're crazy about it up here in the far north.

Then there's the Seelie Court. The Seelie people really enjoy chocolate drinks, especially coffee. This is said to be Queen Titania's favorite "food". Individual chocolate candies are popular in both the Seelie and Unseelie Courts, particularly during holidays. They're a popular gift, often used to signal romantic interest in someone.

There is one more thing I will say about chocolate: cocoa beans also grow naturally in the Jungle of Scales on the continent Wokina. However, they are not farmed here because the local dragons are too fierce, driving peoples to live underground where it is too dark and cramped to grow cocoa trees.

The Jungle of Scales is occupied by the Lamaish people. Most Lamaish are gorgons, and gorgons don't like the taste of chocolate that much. It tastes weird to their unique palates.

That's all I can think of for now!

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Lore Masterpost

Realistically, I'm sure mutations do happen from time to time...and sometimes they can be really bizarre or unfortunate. These individuals may not survive, depending on their anatomy.

But there could be cases similar to Laseya and Rashel where two medusas share one body, or maybe they have two torsos that split off from a single tail. In this case, there would be a lot more "snake" siblings between them.

If the snakes grew out of any part other than the head, I think they would just die and have to be removed from the host.

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Lore Masterpost

I answered a similar question ---> here <---

But here's some additional info: Some gorgons would just trash this shedded skin, but Lamaish gorgons are so intense about recycling that they would try to find some use for it. I think most likely it would be composted along with kitchen scraps and other organic matter.

Some gorgons get lazy about practicing hygiene and find shedding to be a nuisance, but mostly it's just a normal thing they don't think about too much. Unlike snakes, gorgons have hands and they're able to scrub themselves regularly. This prevents their skin from peeling off in big sheets like you'd see on snakes, because they take care of it before it gets to that point.

Exfoliating products are big sellers in gorgon communities!

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Lore Masterpost

Wake up earlier than everyone else in the household. Spend five minutes disentangling your tail from your wife and her head-husband. Prepare breakfast for them and their five children. After breakfast, get those five little shits bathed, dressed, and ready for school while they squabble with eachother.

Escort five unruly gorgon kids to school. On the way home, drop off clothes at the laundromat and get groceries from the market. Clean the house. Put dinner in the oven. Realize one of the kids forgot their sack lunch and rush all the way back to the school to give it to them.

Clean the house some more. Burn dinner. Order takeout instead and pretend you cooked it. Pick up the kids from school. Watch them undo all the cleaning you did instantly. Wife and head-husband come home. Eat dinner with family. Spend hours getting all the kids ready for bed and convincing them to stay there.

Finally take yourself to bed. Wife and head-husband start fucking. Ask if you can join them. Denied. Go to sleep. Kid 1 wakes you up in the middle of the night and tells you they pissed on the floor. Clean it up. Kid 2 demands a midnight snack. Make them a sandwich. Kid 3 has a nightmare and their cries wake up Kid 4 and Kid 5. By the time you get them all back to bed, it's time for you to wake up and do it all over again.

That concludes the thrilling adventures of your average ziqit!

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Lore Masterpost

Good question! I think the medusa can sense some things and not other things.

Each sibling has their own brain, so their thoughts are their own. What they perceive by sight or smell is known only to them. They also have their own tongue, so only they taste what they eat. However, whatever they swallow does end up in the same stomach (of the medusa) so the medusa is affected by whatever it is (alcohol, for example).

There is no special telepathy that is specific to medusas. However, medusas can learn telepathy and use it to read their siblings' thoughts. Medusa siblings are not intelligent enough to learn magic spells, so this only goes one way.

Medusas can restrain their siblings when needed, using hairwraps or other headwear. This will piss the siblings off and there will likely be consequences afterwards, but it can be done in a pinch, like when they're being totally unruly. I'm sure Chua has to do this from time to time to get through important speeches uninterrupted.

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Lore Masterpost

I've gotten a lot of requests for this one! Sorry it took so long.

Come to Lamai Nation! We've got tweekers, cecaeliaboos, snake-nazis, and incels! I think there are more subcultures than this, but this is all I have so far, so I'm posting it as-is.

(Special thanks to @razzek for the never-nesters idea! If you guys have more suggestions just send 'em over!)

Pinpricks - Pin is a popular drug throughout southern Wokina, mostly used for religious purposes. However, some people abuse this drug and end up worshiping it more than they worship their gods. These individuals are colloquially known as “pinpricks”. They are identified by their erratic behavior and loose grip on reality. They tend to congregate in groups and hold “alternative” religious services, which always involves getting high on pin and little else. They consider themselves more enlightened than mainstream society, though most of them suffer dementia symptoms due to the pin abuse. They wear clothing with bright, psychedelic patterns and overload their bodies with all kinds of eclectic jewelry.

Seasnakes - Refers to gorgons who spend a lot of time with cecaelia and emulate cecaelian ways of life. Many seasnakes believe that gorgons are actually another race of cecaelia, and they can somehow unlock their innate cecaelian abilities like body regeneration, water breathing, and longevity. They subscribe to a lot of woo beliefs and perform odd rituals to “unlock” these supposed powers. Many cecaelia just find them offputting, while others are flattered by them and enjoy their company. Some cecaelia even take advantage of seasnakes by charging money to “help” them unlock their powers.

Sons and Daughters of of Serpentia - A subset of Lamaish gorgons who believe Lamai Nation is only for gorgonkind and no one else. They campaign for the removal of all non-gorgons from Lamaish territory, and the outlawing of all religions except Serpentism. Their numbers grow and wane over the eras as local politics evolve, but their hateful beliefs remain the same. They are known for their hostile, thuggish behavior towards non-gorgons and non-Serpentists churches. There was once an old political movement in Lamai Nation, which called for a theocracy called "Serpentia". Serpentia was said to be a utopian land for all gorgon Serpentists. Sons and Daughters of Serpentia adopted their name from this concept.

Never-Nesters - These are male gorgons who have sworn off female companionship, refusing to romance females or start families. Some of them go as far as to refuse all interaction with females entirely. They may choose other males for companionship, but most often they end up alone. Most Lamaish never-nesters are ziqits, but some alpha males have joined the movement as well. These gorgon men feel disgruntled by Lamai Nation’s misandrist laws, and they wish to rebel against their culture by challenging women at every turn. Though they think themselves warriors of equality, most of them are simply recluses who struggle to relate to others. Lamaish culture heavily frowns upon never-nesters and their antisocial ways.

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Lore Masterpost

That's a great question! Same-sex marriage is legal in all Great Kingdoms except Evangeline and Damijana.

It's mostly legal in Lamai Nation as well, although it comes with some caveats. I'll talk about those in a second. First I will say that by Lamaish law, gorgons can only marry other gorgons. A Lamaish gorgon marriage may legally contain:

A female and alpha male.

A female, alpha male, and ziqit.

A female and a ziqit.

Two females.

Two females and an alpha male.

Two females and a ziqit.

Only these combinations can be in a legally-recognized partnership. Notice that two alpha males cannot exist in the same marriage, nor can an alpha male marry a ziqit. This is due to the fact that females have more rights in Lamai Nation than males do. Only females can own property, take out loans, etc. Males can only do these things with permission from a female representative; usually their grandmother, mother, sister, or wife. A family unit without at least one adult female in it can't really function in this culture.

When an alpha male and a ziqit marry the same female, they are not necessarily marrying eachother. They are each married "separately" to the female, so if the female dies or exits the marriage, the alpha male and ziqit have no legal ties to eachother anymore.

These males don't even get custody of their own children in most cases, the government tries to pass the children to female relatives of the mother first, then female relatives of the alpha male, then female relatives of the ziqit.

If the children are refused by all those parties, they are sent to an orphanage instead of to their fathers, because like I said, male gorgons do not have many rights in this society, so it would be harder for them to provide for a child without a female present, who has the power own property, bank accounts, and make important legal decisions that males cannot make.

When a gorgon wife dies, one of her female relatives usually takes ownership of the home as well as custody of her children. If this relative is single, she may even marry the alpha male and ziqit who were left behind. Otherwise these males might seek a new wife together, seek different wives separately, or just remain unmarried but continue living in that household to be with their kids. There are many possibilities, but ultimately it's up to the living female left in charge of the dead wife's estate.

I also want to mention that from a legal standpoint, female gorgons cannot register as ziqits. Some females may call themselves "ziqit" and behave socially like one, but this status won't be legally recognized by Lamai Nation's government.

TL;DR: Lamai really said, "lesbian marriages are fine but gay marriage is no-no because men are too stupid lol"

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Hello! Congrats on the relationship!

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Many people believe that because snakes have two penises, gorgons must be built this way too. However, this is just a myth! Male gorgons have just one. Most of the time you can't see it because it's completely sheathed, but he can control special muscles to unsheathe it at will...or it can also become unsheathed involuntarily if he's aroused. It's embarrassing but it happens sometimes, just like human males get involuntary erections. Unlike humans though, a gorgon's testicles are completely internal, so don't be alarmed if you can't find them. You aren't meant to!

If you are a male human, then there is probably not much of a body size difference between you and your gorgon fiancé. Major size difference is one of the most difficult hurdles that interspecies couples run into, but luckily you won't have to worry about that.

I should mention that gorgons are a whole lot stronger than humans though. Their tails are especially strong. They use their tails to show affection by wrapping it around their lover and gently squeezing them...but they also use it as a weapon by wrapping it around their enemies and squeezing hard enough to break their bones! You will have to remind your lover that you are not as tough as another gorgon, so he can't squeeze you as hard as he may think he can.

A long time ago, someone asked how gorgon couples have sex. I made an illustration (WARNING: NSFW) showing some different possibilities, and even though you're not a gorgon yourself, it might give you some ideas as to what kinds of position this species can achieve.

As long as you have trust in your partner and good communication, I think you two will do just fine!

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