Just now finished reading volume 7, So in a nutshell, 1. Beastkin can't become royalty 2. Maggot bloodline is beastkin Right? Than, the reason Baldr decided to become king is so that his siblings and children doesn't get used as political tools.... I mean, the moment Maggot bloodline is part-beaskin, no one can use them as political tool anymore. At this point, the crown prince statement about princess margariette already crumbles. "It turns out she's beastkin, she is commoner then" Then, Baldr doesn't really need no 'change the world' Just support Randolph and Silk like plan A Or am i missing something?
The thing about beastkin not being able to become royalty is cultural/religious, because it would mean that the bloodline is no longer "pure". Technically then can become royalty in every country but no king had dare to recognized any beastkin as royalty to stay "pure".
It's not that beast kin isn't allowed to be king. It's because beast kin is not allowed to be royalty at all. The fear is not that their children is being used it's to protect them from assassins and fanatics. Original it's because they will become to dangerous. Imagine a family full of maggots power lvl. Though it is hidden from the world by the religion that is dominant in the continent. Not only that but they will become a flag for the beast kin. A race with innate strength. While mixed blood had even higher potential.
The problem isn,t that maggot has beast bloodline the problem is maggot has beast and royal bloodline together. Is like if a british king in sxviii met a black slave and had a child...
I dont know either. To me, it feels like the author kinda tipped their hand way too early with the plot by piling on all of the stuff at once onto baldur. It feels like the pacing has gone way out of whack and i'm worried that it's going to end up going sideways into stupidity or something because of it. On the 'change the world' bit, well he still needs to do it because there's plenty of powerful scum out there that need a sword upside the head, starting from the human supremacist church and Answerer kingdom and working down the list to Tristovy and finally Welkin (who's well on his way to courting death already from Maggot).
Mauricia king doesnt know it and is the second more powerfull and highest bloodline If he knew it he would have many blood-mixed with beastkin and make a army
yeah; without power he would still be used as political tools, his children and his siblings as well and everyone else, is all about the "status" quo where the world and the factions have been build up so far and this "status quo" goes against the mc main mentality,desires or even "beliefs" if you want to call it, so without taking control of it and everything is impossible for him to be fulfilled by the this novel takes a pretty realistic approach to nobles and overall mindset of factions of that time, even when we remove all those "fantasy" attributes, like they are pretty treacherous in the novel , don't believe that just because his prince friend and his girl friend (who have a super sexual tension with him, that is out to cause trouble if she really became queen in the future) becomes the ruler! that the entire "status" quo will change, they are after all still born in that world-era, so they still have more or less have the same prejudice against everything you talked about, they could even treat the mc and his family different but to everyone else nothing is gonna change nor they will fight to the bitter end to change it! and the mc wants to change the "status quo" for everyone. so the only way for the mc to really change the status quo is by taking over, because he already have a different mindset from the start from everyone else and most important to those "in power" that could pretty much kill-rob and slaughter anyone because they had a bad morning that day,so he can not accept it. plus, going back to silk; who here believes that is a good thing for her to marry the dude? i'm not gonna even state about the harem or anything but given the political aspect of the novel shows about nobles and it's faction , we would have a queen who have a super """""close""""" relationship to the mc who is super ascending in power in the kingdom doing things that goes complete against their own interests, creating multiples enemies and making many others jealous and by the end of it he would pretty much became a super topdog of the "whole" world. people this is like "wars" happens in history and silk itself would give the perfect "excuse" for the kingdom/factions to label the mc as traitor, even more since given their sexual tension and his influence on her, she would also try a little to help-change things, so they will kill two rabbits with the same stone by labeling them together.
When i read about maggot the reason of her strengt i was "oh f*ck!" Author drops all worldbuilding about technologies. Yes you can build a gun but baldr can evade and atack one man army etc etc
Also, reading ahead, as usual, the reason why the beastkin blood is so despised has to do with JAPANESE ISEKAI/RPG TROPE #3! Spoiler: GUESS WHAT IT IS! EVIL RELIGION! it may be that the original beast-king may have died due to assassination by the Europa religion. Afterwards, the blame was thrown around at the dog-eared and cat-eared beastkins to keep them separated. This is not covered by the books, I'm just assuming so based on trope and on the various hints about how the church has to create special squads to assassinate Kings Gate holders