Because of the ones we use in Tethe'alla. Only nobility can become officers, including the knights -- for various financial and educational reasons too difficult to change.
[For all that Sylvarant was a union of kingdoms, Kratos knows enough to know that Tethe'alla was the nation more inclined toward upholding the status of nobility.]
Tethe'alla offers a rebate to every family who produces a certain number of children beyond what's needed to maintain their future and livelihood. Naturally, the nobility wanted to enjoy the benefits of that; equally naturally, they wished to avoid the risk of some distant sibling returning from war and securing the family's inheritance over the favourite heirs. The compromise they came up with was consensual infidelity. It's written into the law that children produced from such unions can make no claims to bloodline inheritances, nor have children themselves, nor perform any duty other than the one for which they were bred.
[All this he says with some degree of matter-of-factness, but it's only when he reaches this point that he realises how alien this must sound. Even a couple of months in Nidavellir is long enough to see how highly clan-ties are prized; what would be the point of declaring it as often, in dress and colours, as the people do? On the surface it had felt almost familiar, but as Kratos settled in, he'd begun to realise how different it was. Tethe'alla cares about bloodlines. Sylvarant cares about family.
[Kratos looks away, feeling suddenly unsure about whether he should have explained this much at all. It would have been equally simple to just say what he says next, surely.]
The Aurions are the alternate bloodline for the Chetheses. We're bred for the knighthood, and nothing else. Of course we take it seriously.
[It isn't just a career, for the Aurions, the way it might be for any incidental recruit. It's the reason for their existence. When one has only one recourse, at least it should be done well.]
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[For all that Sylvarant was a union of kingdoms, Kratos knows enough to know that Tethe'alla was the nation more inclined toward upholding the status of nobility.]
Tethe'alla offers a rebate to every family who produces a certain number of children beyond what's needed to maintain their future and livelihood. Naturally, the nobility wanted to enjoy the benefits of that; equally naturally, they wished to avoid the risk of some distant sibling returning from war and securing the family's inheritance over the favourite heirs. The compromise they came up with was consensual infidelity. It's written into the law that children produced from such unions can make no claims to bloodline inheritances, nor have children themselves, nor perform any duty other than the one for which they were bred.
[All this he says with some degree of matter-of-factness, but it's only when he reaches this point that he realises how alien this must sound. Even a couple of months in Nidavellir is long enough to see how highly clan-ties are prized; what would be the point of declaring it as often, in dress and colours, as the people do? On the surface it had felt almost familiar, but as Kratos settled in, he'd begun to realise how different it was. Tethe'alla cares about bloodlines. Sylvarant cares about family.
[Kratos looks away, feeling suddenly unsure about whether he should have explained this much at all. It would have been equally simple to just say what he says next, surely.]
The Aurions are the alternate bloodline for the Chetheses. We're bred for the knighthood, and nothing else. Of course we take it seriously.
[It isn't just a career, for the Aurions, the way it might be for any incidental recruit. It's the reason for their existence. When one has only one recourse, at least it should be done well.]