Speaking of this, what is your stance on magic-y folks in Estalia/Tilea, then?
There's a 3rd edition WFRP supplement about magic the name of which I can't remember off the top of my head, which briefly touches on Tilea and Estalia, explaining that they are in the same state as pre-Teclisian Empire.
Nobles and rulers might sponsor wizards because they are useful, but the wider population fears and hates magic-users, and in terms of magic-y folks the Cults of the classical pantheon are far more prominent.
Though, of course, that comes with the attendum that Tilea and Estalia are different nations, and are in turn split into various competing city-states and petty kingdoms, allowing for a lot of regional variance.
There's the terrible possibility that parents who have too many children pretend they disappeared overnight while having secretly killed them.
Or parents whose child was born mutated.
In most places in the Old World, the parents would be put to death as well under the assumption that they are also tainted.
I guess my second question would be why would you kill the first son before the second is even born? He doesn't have the Talent, so what was the point? That hiding your kid away from potential gribblies is unchivalrous or something?
Because the lord tried to keep him from being taken by hiding him. The point of this Bretonnian folklore, the lesson it's trying to say is "If you try to keep your child from being taken by the Fae, you will lose them one way or the other. Either they will be taken anyway, or they will be killed to punish you."
If trying to prevent the child from being taken leads to losing them 100% of the time, and not trying leads to losing the child 0.1%* of the time, then that motivates people into not trying to prevent the child from being taken.
*Arbitrary figure
Not really.
A new Enchantress will be selected the next day probably, so Bretonnia will be just fine.
As far as anyone knows, there has only ever been one Fae Enchantress in the history of Bretonnia. She is widely considered to be the mortal avatar of the Lady.
