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
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.
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”
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.
That’s fucking dark. I’m not sure what is worse. Death or caged for your entire life.
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.
Better not let Andrew Wiggin hear you say that.
Ender only has one elder brother
Unless there’s a 9th book that retconned that