It took the Lilitai 47 years from their independence to successfully produce a new child. By the grace of the Winds, the first live birth was Súa Gleméanivía, daughter and successor of the first Matriarch. This event was considered by many to be auspicious: it rekindled questions about the nature of the office of the Matriarch—was she a hereditary monarch or something else?—but more importantly it changed the course of the history of the Lilitai. It would not be a doomed echo of the Ksreskézaian Empire, but rather the true birth of a new civilization. A week-long festival ensued, in which the new mother, her child, and the scientists who finally achieved this feat were showered with gifts, songs, and other tokens of appreciation, and many of the foremost thinkers gave speeches on both the intimate and societal consequences of Súa's birth, from the aforementioned concerns about the line of succession to advice on how to subvert and avoid the tragedies epidemic among mothers before the Vendashro. Indeed, until the second child was born, Deztra's diary reports that it was as if every Lilitu saw herself as Súa's aunt or grandmother, determined to contribute as much to the child's success as possible. It would not be for another several decades that eponekiko, an actual settled consensus on how to raise a child, would be reached.
While not every birth would be celebrated as lavishly as Súa's, it did provoke a trend among the Lilitai of commemorating each major development in a child's life. Soon standardized rites of age were established, and applied judiciously to each new member of the tribe. While there were a few Lilitai young enough at the time of departure from Ksreskézo to also go through these later rites, they were generally not established in a timely manner for such observances to occur, as they tended to emerge in the wake of Súa's maturation.
While not every birth would be celebrated as lavishly as Súa's, it did provoke a trend among the Lilitai of commemorating each major development in a child's life. Soon standardized rites of age were established, and applied judiciously to each new member of the tribe. While there were a few Lilitai young enough at the time of departure from Ksreskézo to also go through these later rites, they were generally not established in a timely manner for such observances to occur, as they tended to emerge in the wake of Súa's maturation.
