~Names have been changed to protect the guilty.
I don't know how I missed this one... so much research into what I am, where I came from... and I never even heard this word. Not surprising really... zabrak's are notoriously close mouthed about their culture and this is an extemely private thing. Here's what the few medical & linguistic journals I could find said about it:
"Pairing involves the custom of Tai Shan, which is based upon the use of the acute sense of smell to recognize compatible pheromones secreted by a female (and rarely a male) as a subtle scent or musk, which leads to a rapid attraction and then to successful pairing for life. Matched pheromones create chemicals with powerful aphrodisiac properties which lead to very rapid courtship and stable life bonds being undertaken....Under certain conditions, these bio-chemicals cause mind expanding drugs to be manufactured within the bodies of the paired couple. When ingested by each from the other, the drug enhances power derived from the Force and generates a transcendental state of being which reinforces the pair-bond during the mating process..."
Makes sense on a clinical level... but they have no idea... I asked Devia what it meant when she called me it with her mind. She said it was hard to translate... High Zabrak which isn't common out here on the outer rim.... even I speak a basterdized lower form... it's just easier... but the concept behind it is one of completion. Two halves of the same soul finding one another again. It's amazing how much easier it is to commune with the force when I'm with her... I truly do feel complete.
I told her I felt like I loved her before I knew her... she smiled and whispered in the back of my mind. "That's what Tai Shan means."
"Pairing involves the custom of Tai Shan, which is based upon the use of the acute sense of smell to recognize compatible pheromones secreted by a female (and rarely a male) as a subtle scent or musk, which leads to a rapid attraction and then to successful pairing for life. Matched pheromones create chemicals with powerful aphrodisiac properties which lead to very rapid courtship and stable life bonds being undertaken....Under certain conditions, these bio-chemicals cause mind expanding drugs to be manufactured within the bodies of the paired couple. When ingested by each from the other, the drug enhances power derived from the Force and generates a transcendental state of being which reinforces the pair-bond during the mating process..."
Makes sense on a clinical level... but they have no idea... I asked Devia what it meant when she called me it with her mind. She said it was hard to translate... High Zabrak which isn't common out here on the outer rim.... even I speak a basterdized lower form... it's just easier... but the concept behind it is one of completion. Two halves of the same soul finding one another again. It's amazing how much easier it is to commune with the force when I'm with her... I truly do feel complete.
I told her I felt like I loved her before I knew her... she smiled and whispered in the back of my mind. "That's what Tai Shan means."
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