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>Is he taking my female pawns to gestate in his palace and keeping the babies?
Oh no no no no... no no no. The opposite. You raise the illegitimate bastards for a few decades and then he will buy them from you in exchange for a pittance of honor so he can have their throats slit by jannyssaries and his line of succession secured. Alternatively, if one of them is cunning or strong enough to be useful then he will use lies to alienate him against your people, scheme up a reason to have your settlement crushed and have the empire's records quietly revised to reflect that his trueborn heir had been stolen by savage surface luddites shortly after his birth from an endorsed court concubine.
