Quote Originally Posted by TheCountAlucard View Post
Ugh. First off (first off, why am I needing to say this?), maintaining a strict multigenerational eugenics program is hardly cheap, and if you do any less, the likelihood of a Dragon-Blooded's child taking his Second Breath plummets. Also implying a desire to breed people like animals for the express purpose of being your servants is particularly skeevy, dude. And third, a Dynast's education ain't cheap - those bundles of free Ability dots don't spontaneously arise from the aether. Part of what makes the Dragon-Blooded so especially effective comes from a schooling system that puts any of ours to shame - by the time you're fifteen, you've learned reading and writing, calligraphy, geography, history, physics, math, music, political science, debate, athletics, dance, philosophy (including of course the Immaculate Philosophy), languages, hunting, tactics, horsemanship, archery, spirit lore, Gateway, and of course Hitting Things With Things.

That it doesn't cost Resources 5 is kind of a testament to the Realm (though I won't say it excuses their atrocities, because of course it doesn't).
Comparatively speaking, fully functioning populations of Terrestrials is a lot cheaper than Alchemicals. The blood has to be pret-ty thin before Exaltation becomes actually impossible, and given 3E spoilers, Breeding does not actually affect the upper limit of a Dragon-Blood's power. You're Exalted or you're not, the genetic component simply determines how likely it is your children will be Exalted too.

Quite simply, you have to build an Alchemical, their Charms, the infrastructure required for those Charms, hire maintenance staff, etc. You just have to train a Terrestrial, after they come into it or you find them, and given how slowly Exalted age, there's a pretty big window for the latter to work.