LINTHA BROTHERS AND SISTERS Male trueblood Lintha are born brothers, and fe- male truebloods are born sisters. Lintha children typically spend their childhood removed from their parents in one of several island schools. In these schools, children learn history, tradition and useful skills such as seamanship, bookkeeping, warfare and commerce. Be- fore graduation, brothers and sisters commonly take on the responsibilities of child rearing for the mothers of the sept, the protection of the sept and the disciplining of the very young. Following graduation from an academy, brothers and sisters of Greatsepts enter into one or another profession, which will engage most of their life until they produce children themselves. Seamanship is the most honorable and exciting career, and many youths usually spend at least a few years at sea. Other brothers and sisters take on the responsibilities of trade matters under one of the sept’s fathers.
