Talk:Nightblood/@comment-28398720-20160601035009/@comment-29903228-20160907091558

Ontari was kidnapped remember? She was not Ice Nation. She was used as a pawn to become Commander for the Ice Queen. Her very quote on her page says it. "I was snatched from my parents by the Ice Queen. I suffered her cruelty." This shows that the Nightbloods were only a small group united by Becca in the early days. Unity was a slow process. During that time new clans - through breeding probably assimilated some Nightbloods into them. The harder part to understand is how so many survived when so many were being killed in only 97 years.

If she had only the one briefcase of medical supples as we see, and that briefcase is seen with her in the Flamekeepers room, (and we don't know how many injections it takes for the therapy to work, but let's assume one), if we do the math for 30-40 (I count 31 exactly - 32 if there is one in the chamber) injections to hand out. Let's be generous and say she is resourceful and makes 40. Those 40 breed and have an average of 7 kids (in troubled times people breed more because infant mortality rates are high. Usually 2-3 kids die. I wont cover the science here you can look it up on TED talks. Assuming 5 survive for easy math that makes 200 nightbloods in the first generation. I also have to assume all 200 are not accepted into the conclave. I'm assume 8 is always the number perhaps. Leaving 192 nightbloods to have 5 kids each and 1 new commander to have children. Generation 2 would have aprox 1000 nightbloods. Even if death and war took half or the birth rates were not as low you could say 500 at worse. Generation 3 (40 years in) would have 1000-2500 nightbloods. Generation 4 (60 years), 2000-10000. Generation 5 (4000-50000). You see how quickly it can grow and we have 40 years left. At this point I'm willing to bet there are at least hundreds of nightbloods out there if not thousands. Most of the just haven't bled and don't know it, or know it and don't want to be found because they understand the odds of death. I mean seriously... who goes around just cutting people just to see blood color of children. Nowhere is it said it's done to find nightbloods. I'm sure the ones they have come from people that are of known lineage or were discovered somehow, or volunteered because of ambition.