Every bloodline present on Ardoros had a drawback that maintained balance among the power struggles of the four major families.
Devereaux gave limitless growth but restricted self-bloodline killing; Tenebri provided awakened skills but suffered from a curse slowly killing the entire bloodline.
The Riantain bloodline provided complete control over the body with the drawback of the mind isolating over time, eventually detaching from the outside world due to reaching the perfection of the human race.
And then there was the God's Bloodline.
This bloodline possessed all the abilities of the other three without their drawbacks, not bound by self-bloodline killing, curses, or numbing of the mind—a perfect bloodline.
However, despite its perfection, the restrictions placed on the Abernathy Bloodline were strong enough to bring them to the level of others, or even lower, considering their history of decline from the second position.
