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Originally Posted by thestor
I am a bit annoyed, too, with special bloodlines having (more) magical power, since hardly ever does a setting follow through with this and have these families go all-out Habsburg.
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Some of that is constraint of the heroic genre. If we weren't so obsessed with origin stories from nothing and plots built around family drama weren't such a big theme in heroic stories. But if the hero needs to go from zero to strong enough to be the lynchpin of everything fast, and his family members need to be at least strong enough he can't brush them or their problems away with his now great powers, well, it's a tight constraint.