The Covert Province had formed under the belief that people needed to be segregated by their innate powers, that some were by natural law, better than others. More valuable. Useful. They’d been known to arrange marriages, ensuring that if magic was in fact passed down genetically, each line would be stronger than the next. Their society was highly patriarchal, men holding all positions of power, and women falling into more subservient roles. If their gifts were extraordinary, they’d use information provided, sure, but similar to The Before, what they had to bring to the table didn’t matter.
