Twins

Popular culture holds the birth of twins as an ill omen. Where there is already suspicions of magery, it is widely agreed that the birth of twins is considered further proof. Beyond that, the stories vary from village to village with some taking a lighter view to others.

Some of the oldest traditions mark one of the children as a mage. Others see it as a sign of great evil to come without further involvement of the children. Still others claim the twins will themselves draw the evil if they are allowed to live.

In recent decades, however, several prominent twins born among the nobility have made the issue a confused one. Some claim that the notion is old and outdated, believed only by the poor and those in backwater locales, while others say that people fear for the omens but are afraid to risk their lives in speaking against the children of some of the most influential persons in the kingdom. In any case, twins of the noble and wealthy are generally allowed to continue unmolested without more than whispers of the omen. Those whispers do happen, however, and some point to the early death of King Jaren, born to the one of the Vandagan duke's triplets, as evidence, while others suggest that training accidents might befall those born as twins.