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You Don't Want to Be the Second Born, Right?
When you've got too many sons, you've got competition for the land. So if they were a family with a lot of sons, then the excess sons were persuaded that a career in the church is very attractive. But it depends on how much you like the monastery, I suppose. And whether you want your older brothers ex-wife as your future partner. The losers here in these kind of systems, sticking to the defense system, is the other daughters because you're only marrying one daughter out of each family into another family.