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Aurelius Moiser was born in the year 905 of the founding of the Council of the Great Clans, as the son of the head of the Moiser clan, by his lawful and only wife. But bad luck, his father turned out to be very greedy for women ... He, some even say, had at least a thousand of them.
Of course, because of the similar lifestyle of his father, Aurelius had a huge number of brothers and sisters. Often this is not a big problem, the clan simply does not recognize bastards, and this suits everyone. Only demigods or magicians born from such a vicious union are accepted into the clan ...
Even a peasant can become a demigod if he is lucky enough... However, even about a thousand years ago, people noticed that it is possible to increase the chance of a demigod being born only if one of the parents is also a demigod. In the event that both parents have the highest magical potential, then their child will most likely also have it.
Women are demigods and have a strong influence on the formation of a child's magical potential... Men, on the contrary, with rare exceptions, do not play a special role in this process. Although it's a bit more complicated...
The fact is that not every woman is capable of bearing a child from a demigod man, and very often childbirth, even successful ones, leads to the death of the mother. The lower the magical potential of a pregnant woman from a demigod, the less her chances of survival. All these factors resulted in the fact that the number of demigods is so small.
A demigod woman in her entire life is capable of becoming a mother for no more than five children, and even then they will not always have the highest magical potential ... A man is able to impregnate at least a thousand women with low magical potential, but this one is unlikely to give at least some result...
Therefore, it turns out that the number of demigods obtained naturally, without selection, is slightly higher ... From this it turns out that most demigods are not from clans, but children born from ordinary people who are simply lucky ...
Also, one should not forget about the effect of degeneration, when clans, despite all the efforts made in pursuing a breeding policy, are still gradually weakening ... Few people want to take male demigods into the clan, the risk of a change of power within the clan is high, and women demigods are a rare commodity, Demand is high and supply is low...
The natural demigods of women are taken by the great clans, since with their help you can get rid of degeneration, very often the heads of the great clans have a large harem. It is already much more difficult for middle clans to get a woman of a demigod into their family, but it is quite possible that sometimes the most worthy of the vassals are given a daughter born in a great clan as a wife as an encouragement. It can be said that this is the highest gratitude of the master to his servant.
Small clans spin around as best they can, taking a natural female demigod into a clan is even dangerous for them, it is possible to anger medium and even great clans if she turns out to be beautiful and with high fertility. The heads of small clans take as their wives women demigods from the same small clans, and sometimes natural, but not demigods, but only magicians, since they simply have no other choice ...
Smaller clans live better in such a system, since they have less to worry about internal disagreements, because they, in principle, can afford to take a man into the family of a natural demigod. Sometimes natural male demigods are accepted into the middle, and even into the great clans, rarely, but there were precedents ...
It's all about the personal strength of such male demigods, since they are taken into the family, first of all, not in order to continue the family, but to receive a powerful tool in their hands. Usually this phenomenon can be observed on the eve of, or even during the war.
The clans live the hardest of all, which at some point, in the pursuit of power, decided to focus on the quantity, not the quality of the clan members, and drove themselves into a dead end. Due to the impossibility of ensuring the inflow of new blood into the clan, they had to enter into closely related marriages within the clan, which after a while inevitably started the process of degeneration...
The Moiser clan is not small in number, but it is not so huge that marriages between relatives had to be concluded ... This clan has always faithfully served its master — the great Vis clan, for which it was rewarded with a demigod woman as the wife of the head of the family.
«Damned Matilda» — that's how she was nicknamed, at first, in the clan, and then beyond it ... The fact is that despite the fact that she was a demigod, she could not give birth to children with the same magical potential. She had six sons and two daughters, and all of them were born for some reason with the magical potential of knights...
Her husband walked to the left with sufficient regularity, spawned bastards, and did not hide his hatred for his unlucky wife ... But he could not divorce her or find another wife, since such a thing could offend the Vis clan.
But suddenly a miracle happened, the betrayal of the head of the family led to the birth of four children with the highest magical potential. Everyone was accepted into the clan, and the eldest of them was appointed heir at all ...
A month after the fourth bastard awakened the divine spark and was adopted into the family, Matilda gave birth to the ninth child, which significantly affected her health. The husband did not even come to see his son, so the woman herself gave the name of the child — Aurelius.
Eleven years later, in the year 916, Aurelius suddenly awakened the divine spark of life... A year before, his mother, the only one who cared for him, died... Brothers and sisters died even earlier, on the battlefields, or due to accidents .
The boy quickly made a difficult, but necessary for his own survival, decision — he hid the fact that he had the highest magical potential, and pretended to be a magician ... Aurelius wanted to take revenge on the offenders of his mother, and the murderers of his brothers and sisters. It was obvious to him that they were simply removed as unnecessary trash so as not to waste the clan's resources on useless knights...
Since he assumed the guise of a magician, they did not remove him, they considered him useful ... Aurelius lived for years, hatched plans, built the foundation of his revenge, and also learned the power of the divine spark of life ...