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 ===== Background & Service Record ===== ===== Background & Service Record =====
  
-Like William, Konrad Stahl was taken from non-magi parents as a small child (age five or six) during one of the more aggressive recruitment sweeps of the previous generation. His home district was in the Eastern Barrens — already a punishment posting for non-compliant populations. The "introduction" teams that collected him were not gentle. He has almost no memories of his parents, only the sound of his mother singing something in a language the recruiters later beat out of him.+Like William, Konrad Stahl was taken from non-magi parents as a small child (age five or six) during one of the more aggressive recruitment sweeps of the previous generation. He belonged to one of the earliest large cohorts of third-tier children brought into the system after the fertility collapse among the old pureblood lines became impossible to ignore. By the time William Davenport arrived at the academy decades later, third-tier magi made up roughly forty percent of the working magi population. His home district was in the Eastern Barrens — already a punishment posting for non-compliant populations. The "introduction" teams that collected him were not gentle. He has almost no memories of his parents, only the sound of his mother singing something in a language the recruiters later beat out of him.
  
 He was processed through the same academy system Will now endures, but in a harsher era. The doctrine of Controlled Void was newer then, the punishments more inventive, and the expectation that Third Ranks would die young in service was still openly discussed. Stahl survived by becoming *extremely* good at the one thing the regime valued from people of his rank: applied violence in defense of the barrier and the hierarchy. He was processed through the same academy system Will now endures, but in a harsher era. The doctrine of Controlled Void was newer then, the punishments more inventive, and the expectation that Third Ranks would die young in service was still openly discussed. Stahl survived by becoming *extremely* good at the one thing the regime valued from people of his rank: applied violence in defense of the barrier and the hierarchy.