Inti Brides

Qualifications

Virgin of the Sun

Sun virgins are chosen girls, removed from their families, whose futures are yet to be determined.

— Piluta

At the uncertain stage where they become too old for the House of Women, most are married off to imperial favourites and those aren't are elevated to the role by the viceroy.

Requirements

Chaste for life

Formal Innoit education under the acllawasi

Duties

Oversee the ceremonies of Inti

Instill discipline on the junior chosen girls under their care

Responsibilities

Produce luxury items for the state

Prepare ritual food

Grounds for Removal/Dismissal

In accordance with their position, they are viewed was being "married to the Sun" granting them a certain amount of divine responsibilities. Therefore, though infrequent, past brides have been executed after evidence of their infidelity were discovered; typically in connection with some politically motivated scandal.

Cultural Significance

Married to a God

Brides wear simple, but distinctive, clothing and hairstyles as part of their a monastic environment and from where they interact with the broader community they were assigned. Their most lavished adornment is a headdress made from local resources which is meant to make it easier for the normally foreign-born brides to integrate; while still enforcing their higher status. With complicated results:

1. common boys consider them elegant but stern
2. common girls consider them foreboding and authoritative
3. common men consider them distant and forbidden
4. common women consider them entitled but reliable
5. some brides consider themselves family to the Son of the Sun

Type

Religious, Political

Status

Holy

Form of Address

My Lady

Alternative Naming

Brides to the Sun

Acllas

Equates to

Nun

Source of Authority

Inti

Length of Term

Life