Chapter 13: Chapter 13: Ensuring Legacy
Arturian, after this self reflection on how he had raised his children first led to him to a few attempts to try to fix the situation.
Getting with another woman and having more children, then raising them right this time was out of the question after the tragedy that occurred earlier in the year. His next attempt was attempting to spend time with his children, and teach them his ways. This attempt was not successful for two reasons. First of all, most of his children were already adults. This is important because it means they were not impressionable like children are. Some of them even had families of their own. In other words, his children likely already were who they would be for the rest of their lives.
The other reason why spending time with them did not work was because they liked the lifestyle too much. They were never taught to compose themselves or to be polite. They were too into either having the best things in the moment, or attending the next party everyone from Natovis' upper echelon of society would be attending.
This led Arturian the greater to look into adopting a child. The problem with this idea was that there was almost no adoption in the upper levels of Natovis. The population was in decline up there. But rumor had it there were plenty of orphans in a certain rouge state.....