In the Blood Crow family, to retain their bloodline supremacy and prevent the spread of their blood, the family only allowed the worthy to survive the Blood ban after one turns fifty. Among those, the exemplary retain the right to hold the title of a Prince, while others will be relegated to either work in ministry or be forced into the military.
This is how they maintain hegemony over their country as well as their bloodline.
Or so they say, but it's common knowledge that most who face the blood purge are the branch bloodlines of the Blood Crow Family. At the same time, the main family due to their resources, always maintains superiority in each of their generation, making them almost immune to the blood ban ceremony.
And that's how it was for most of Blood Crow's existence. The main family or the direct family of the Emperor never suffered in their life, until a small child from the branch Family with the middle name Wortham appeared.
