Chapter 8 Hagen's Royal Family (2)

But during the reign of Idub Sparger XII, all family strife disappeared, because the "Book of Bloodlines" recording bloodlines and births was born, with its unquestionable Authority eliminates all incentives for infighting.The book is now 488 years old, and I can say without exaggeration that it is a must-have centerpiece in every Hagen home.It is the only book that everyone has read.Most of us keep the part about our family very close to our hearts.The annual publication of the revised edition of the Book of Bloodlines is considered the most important public holiday of the year. In the months that followed, the revised content of the "Book of Bloodlines" will always be talked about: the Levi family died sadly after the death of the old prince Levi Gwig; The Swald family, inherited by the Duchess Dubs, is about to have a new heir; Baron Lagan is incredible on the throne of East Forbes, because his great-great-grandfather, uncle and cousin within a year and the great-grandson of Aegmorg's illegitimate son was given official status and status by the amnesty of the royal commission.Hagen has a total of 817 kings.Each king has rights to specific lands, palaces, or at least parts of palaces, but ruling a region is not what makes a king a true king.What is really necessary is to have a crown and to wear it on certain occasions (such as at the coronation of another king); Be there when the Satyrp ball game kicks off; be sure to be there every year at the Blessed Fishing Festival; his wife must be the queen, his eldest son the crown prince, his brother must be the prince, his sister must be the princess, and all his The immediate family and all their children must be of royal blood.

In order to maintain the rule of the aristocratic class, people with noble blood must be strictly controlled, and they are only allowed to intermarry with people of the same noble blood.Fortunately, there are many such people.On my plane, as long as it is a thoroughbred horse, its ancestry must be traced back to Godolphin's Arabian horse.Similarly, every noble family in Hagen is descended from Hagen Grande Ragland, who ruled eight centuries earlier.Horses don't mind where their ancestors came from, but their owners do, and so do kings and noble families here.From this perspective, Hagen looks a lot like a large stallion farm.Although no one said it, it was believed that some noble families were more noble than others, because these families were descended from Ragland's first sons, and therefore more noble than the descendants of Ragland's eight bastards.But all aristocratic families have a record of intermarriages with the royal family several times, enough to create an indelible bond.Each family also has its own unique family characteristics: for example, they are the descendants of the legendary conqueror "Axe" Elphgen of Beihaigen; or they are the collateral relatives of the saints; People with the title of duke or duchess, through marriage, have successively given birth to truly noble princes and princesses without any blood mixing, just as recorded in the "Book of Blood" displayed in the palace.

So, when the annual revisions finally got boring, the noble guests at the noble evenings would talk about the nobility of blood, about Jacobin IV's second marriage with Chater Tiwand. Is the son born in the marriage the prince who was killed in the palace by the rebel army at the age of thirteen, and subsequently, whether he is the Duke of Wiggligen, who is later the King of Chartres? Father and so on.These questions don't appeal to everyone, and this obsession with bloodlines makes Hagans weary of visitors to their plane.The fact that the Hagens have no interest in people other than themselves at all makes tourists even more infuriated.Outsiders exist.

That's all the Hagens know about outsiders, or that's all they need to know.