Originally Posted by
TheCountAlucard
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).