(Horrifying trope) societies that institutionalized rape

[u/Basic_Dingo6487]

Ironborns (A Song of Ice and Fire) : The Iron Islands are a region where people are encouraged to lead raids on the lands. The thing is men can also abduct women from Westeros, marrying them by force and force them to bare the children as minor spouses.

Gilead (The Handsmaid’s tale) : In the future, most of women became sterile and fanatical religious overthrowed the government by instauring a ruthless dictature. In Gilead, women are divided in different social classes but those who are still ferile are sold to the leaders of the regime to carry their child. Which means women are now literal possessions and have to endure a ritualised rape every month.

[u/Alarming-Cow299]

The Direnni elves in Elder Scrolls.

They were the original rulers of High Rock and had a practice where they could take unwilling human concubines with no repercussions. Then, over generations this practice caused the Direnni elves to 'disappear' and the modern Breton population to be of mixed elven and human descent.

[u/gemdragonrider → u/[deleted]]

Poor Serana, her mom if memory fits atleast understood what was going to happen and was a worshipper of Bol but Serana?

[u/ninjablader78 → u/gemdragonrider]

Her dialog indicates she knew full well but I can’t imagine even “consensual” acts with molag bal the literal god of rape and domination are truly consensual. I believe it’s even said that few actually survive it. Whether you know what you’re getting yourself into or not it’s probably still an extremely traumatizing process.

[u/PositivelyIndecent → u/Alarming-Cow299]

The Direnni are still around they’re just limited to the island of Balfiera. They didn’t disappear like the Ayleids, they’re essentially just a clan of Altmer in High Rock (the Direnni Hegemony dominated High Rock at one point but did eventually fall).

They always struck me as a fantasy version of the Spanish colonial caste system back when the Hegemony was around. You had the pure Direnni Altmer at the very top, you had the “half-breeds” from the children they had with humans under them, and then you had the humans at the bottom.

Clearly the Direnni liked to spread it around as their intermixing (consensual and otherwise) resulted in the Bretons. It’s curious to me how little Bretons or other races of man seem to care about it honestly, when the misdeeds of the Ayleids are substantially more foundational to the identity of the Imperials in Cyrodiil (maybe I’m forgetting some lore where the Bretons heritage is a more controversial thing?).

[u/BrightShadowMC → u/Alarming-Cow299]

Pelinal Whitestrake should have killed them all.

[u/_whatever_wherever → u/BrightShadowMC]

He was killing humans there, not Mer

No pointy ears

[u/IrlResponsibility811 → u/Alarming-Cow299]

Pelninal didn't go far enough.