Is there any instance or quote to support an un-companioned FW adopting a child? If so, would the child follow the Mother's Caste? Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thank you!
The books mention one anticipated adoption, two adoptions specifically and one generally.
None of the adoptions were by an un-companioned free women.
In the case of the two specific and the general adoptions, the adopted was trained in the work of the foster family.
Anything beyond what the books say is supposition.
While that may sound bad, it really isn't. What it means is, this is yet another case where just because something is not explicitly mentioned does not mean it couldn't happen.
(speaking of Telima)
"I had been told that on my seventeenth birthday a great change would occur in my life." She smiled. "I expected to be freed, and to be adopted as the daughter of Samos."
"What happened?" I asked.
"At dawn that morning," she said, "the Slave Master came for me. I was taken below to the pens. There, like a new girl taken from the rence islands, I was stripped. An iron was heated. I was marked. My head was placed across an anvil and, about my throat, was hammered a simple plate collar. Then my wrists were tied widely apart to wrist rings mounted in a stone wall, and I was whipped. After this, when I had been cut down, weeping, the Slave Master, and his men, much used me. After this I was fitted with slave chains and locked in a pen, with other girls. These other girls, some of them rence girls themselves, would often beat me, for they knew what freedom I had had in the house, and they knew, as was true, that I had regarded myself as far superior to such as they, only common girls, simple merchandise. I thought there was some great mistake. For days, though the other girls would beat me for it, I begged the Slave Master, the guards, to be taken before Samos. At last, kneeling, in a simple plate collar, beaten and shackled, stripped, I was thrown before him."
"What did he say?" I asked.
"He said," said she, "take this slave away."
Raiders of Gor    Book 6    Page 293
At the age of twelve, Ute had been purchased by a leather worker, who dwelt on the exchange island, administered by the Merchants, of Teletus. He, and his companion, had cared for her, and had freed her. They had adopted her as their daughter, and had seen that she was trained well in the work of the leather workers, that caste which, under any circumstances, had been hers by right of birth.
Captive of Gor    Book 7    Page 233
His colleague, Venlisius, a bright young man who was now, by adoption, a scion of the Toratti, was with him. Venlisius was in the same office. He was records officer, or archon of records, for the Metellan district, in which we were located.
Magicians of Gor    Book 25    Page 442
Ubars are usually generals or war leaders, originally acclaimed by, and empowered by, popular support, most often in periods of crisis. In a sense, I suppose they, too, are tyrants, as there is no legal limit placed on their tenure in office nor are there any obvious provisions for removing them from office, short of, I suppose, assassinations or uprisings. To be sure, they commonly have the support of the people. They select their own successors, often by legally adopting a favored individual.
Plunder of Gor    Book 34    Page 150
