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.
GNU Terry Pratchett
I’m pretty sure that’s only on the disc
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"
Jesus fucking Christ what sick man wrote this?!
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.
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
