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Isn't a wizard supposed to be the 7th son of a 7th son?
Of course you could still slaughter sons 3-6 at birth.
GNU Terry Pratchett
I’m pretty sure that’s only on the disc
On the Disc it's the 8th son of an 8th son ("8" being the more magical number, along with the eighth color only wizards can see, octarine). The 8th son of an 8th son of an 8th son is a sourcerer, but they're rare (on purpose).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventh_son_of_a_seventh_son
I was making a Terry Pratchett Discworld reference, but Terry was making a reference to the belief here on Roundworld.
Reminder of the fetal cannibalism orgasms drow lore from Dragon Magazine.
https://www.realmshelps.net/charbuild/races/elf/drow1.shtml
Scroll down to "Bloodied From the Birth-Sac"
Jesus fucking Christ what sick man wrote this?!
Um, fratricide is a real world practice.
In fact, the Kafes of the Ottoman Empire were an effort to stop the ritual of a successor king having all his brothers executed. Instead, extra heirs would be locked up in a nice dwelling full of harem women. They went mad.
And now they are a tourist attraction and a footnote of history.
What are you replying to? I don't give a shit about fratricide. A woman orgasming because the fetuses inside her are murdering each other is the part I have a big problem with.
Oh, the original notion in the post of the practice of killing offspring past the heir and the spare. Your response was ambiguous about to what specifically it was reacting.
That's fucking dark. I'm not sure what is worse. Death or caged for your entire life.
It really is.
I guess if I had to pick I'd definitely choose the lifetime of prison, but with the harem, or whatever. It would still get old pretty quick, I imagine. I understand the eventual insanity, for sure.
I definitely feel worse for the women in that situation, but maybe they were allowed to rotate out and leave, at the very least.
Oh it's worse than that. According to a History Channel special on the Kafes (take that for what you will) the prisoners behaved as folks generally do, and developing relationships with their lovers, but getting pregnant was a capital offense (since niblings were additional political baggage), and they often would get pregnant. This contributed to the mental health deterioration of the imprisoned men.
Probably not. Islam and christianity have the habit of enabling subjugation of women. Wives aren't allowed to reject their husbands advances for example. It was really just about power and control, as usual.
Better not let Andrew Wiggin hear you say that.
Ender only has one elder brother
Unless there's a 9th book that retconned that
He's still a third.
"After a house has two sons"
Seems wasteful. They could at least turn them into driders or feed them to the spiders. Hopefully they torture them to death for the glory of Lloth at least
