So each clan sends a woman to bang the emperor, so there's fifty heirs and nobody's got an unfair advantage to the throne, theoretically, except it doesn't really work out like that? But anyway . . . so Ling's from the Yao clan, and he beat out all his siblings because he went out to a different country, met me, and together we figured out how to bring home a hell of a prize and make him the most valuable heir.
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[He gets up, off to find his magic box. Finding it, he plops back down in front of her and gets to work.]
So there's his country, right? Xing.
[Exhibit A.]
Except it's divided into fifty different clans, each of them hating the others.
[Exhibit B.]
So each clan sends a woman to bang the emperor, so there's fifty heirs and nobody's got an unfair advantage to the throne, theoretically, except it doesn't really work out like that? But anyway . . . so Ling's from the Yao clan, and he beat out all his siblings because he went out to a different country, met me, and together we figured out how to bring home a hell of a prize and make him the most valuable heir.