Sybok did know, not from being among Vulcan society (because they never talked about it) but because of his own extensive studies into Vulcan history. Whatever he could access before being shipped away from the planet, that is.
"Males don't usually bond because the combined pheromones usually encourages the wrong instincts: they think their mate is a rival, and you can imagine how well that would end. Spock probably made an exception since none of you posed an actual Vulcan-like threat. No offense.
"As far as the multiplicity goes..." Sybok paused, thought a little more, flipping through old files and lectures and other things he had heard, read, and surveyed. "History says that warlords and kings have had multiple wives of varying importance, but I can't recall a historian who had the chance to ask if they were all bonded."
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Date: 2010-05-26 11:46 pm (UTC)"Males don't usually bond because the combined pheromones usually encourages the wrong instincts: they think their mate is a rival, and you can imagine how well that would end. Spock probably made an exception since none of you posed an actual Vulcan-like threat. No offense.
"As far as the multiplicity goes..." Sybok paused, thought a little more, flipping through old files and lectures and other things he had heard, read, and surveyed. "History says that warlords and kings have had multiple wives of varying importance, but I can't recall a historian who had the chance to ask if they were all bonded."