Seidr is seen as a 'womanly art' yes, but I don't think your dime-a-dozen peasant woman/farmer's wife would actually know any more than the men when it comes to seidr, and if our mother actually knew any, she'd most likely be called a witch. I don't gey the impression that people casually practice seidr, either. Like, if someone knows seidr you'd expect them to commit to being a Witch, rather than just learning some and then becoming a farmer's wife.
Oh, I'm not necessarily saying she knows anything about it (I honestly think it's highly unlikely she knows more than the very basics...I'm not clear on how common the basics are, so she might or might not know those), I'm saying it probably doesn't hurt to ask and she's probably the most likely person we currently know to have some idea about it.
Though I will also say...how would we know what Halla's mother's reputation is? We don't ask around about it and I don't think it's come up once in text. She could have a reputation as a witch and neither we nor Halla might be aware. I'm not saying that's the case (it's probably not), but it could be in theory.
But the primary reason to spend time with mom is just to improve the relationship with her. Any other benefits are incidental and secondary.
I feel like that is ignoring a great deal of difference in understanding the setting between Halla (and us ooc) on one hand and her father on the other.
Like, the basic stirring we only learned last turn.
What happened to us could be something well understood by the warriors of the age and we would never have heard of it anyway as we weren't considered to be growing up as a warrior until the thief incident.
This is technically possible, but I consider it so unlikely it's not worth wasting an action on. Like, if it's that common, we probably get talked to about it during training (which we are still doing with dad no matter what), and if it isn't he probably doesn't know.
Sure.
If mom knows about seidr beyond 'common knowledge'.
If mom doesn't go 'learn womanly basics before asking questions about advanced things like that'.
Sure. The point of hanging out with her is to improve our relationship. Given recent experiences asking about seidr doesn't hurt, but she may well know nothing, which would be fine.
Possible, but I'd strongly doubt it.
My assumption, and what the vote is based on, is that neither of them really know anything about the possession...my comment on mom being more likely to know than dad was not intended to say she's likely to know anything, it was intended to point out how unlikely dad knowing anything was. Like, it was intended to emphasize the profound unlikelihood of him knowing things, not argue that she was actually likely to know them.
