Miss Baudrillard

It is said, and some aver there is truth in it, that the reason that so many sorcerers are of the Arcane Bloodline is that the only way you would have a seventh son or seventh daughter, of a seventh son or seventh daughter, of a seventh son or seventh daughter, is if both parents were themselves Wizards, because only two Wizards could get along long enough to have that many children.

The truth of things is a bit more complex.

Arcane Bloodline Sorcerers are by-and-large actually the RAREST type of sorcerer, because actually, though Wizards do often marry each other, they rarely have that many children as they are too absorbed in their researches and training younger wizards to have time for much of a sex life or raising children. The reason that arcane bloodline sorcerers SEEM so much more common is survival rates. Wizard Couples that manage to have seven sons and/or daughters are often powerful and rich, so they are able to outfit their children with all sorts of useful tools which allow them to become very powerful themselves very quickly: which in turn means that they survive longer as adventurers and thus are the type most people have heard the most about.

That digression aside there is more than a bit of truth to the notion that wizards who marry each other are the most likely to have a marriage which lasts.

Wizardry is to a degree in the blood: there are those who become wizards without being seventh sons/daughters of seventh sons/daughters, but with the propensity to large families among most of the common races they make up the majority. This means that they often share certain background attitudes: habits of thrift, a mix of easy socialization and yearning to have time to ones self, a thirst for knowledge and also attention, and a strong degree of stick-to-it-ivness. These commonalities mean that marriages among wizards are often some of the most long lasting. This is not to say they are always so, some people are simply incompatible, but the probabilities are in their favor.

Thus you have decided Miss Beatrice Beverly Baudrillard will be the objective of your quest to find a wife: appearance and wealth are far less important than compatibility of spirit in your estimation and so you have your carriage take you around to the Baudrillard household.

The door open's and there stands Mister Baudrillard, a mighty mountain of a man, with shoulders that look like they belong on an Ox not a human, but you smile winningly and ask, "Good day to you, is your daughter Beatrice at home?"