[ She smiles a little, looking to smooth the conversation forward. ]

Many bastards' mothers do not have names of their own. [ Bastards begetting bastards, and so the cycle continued on and on. ] And if ever a high-born lady were to give birth out of wedlock— she would be shamed and none would marry her, after.

[ And so the lords and kings gave birth to bastards aplenty, while the women remained locked in their towers or otherwise lived as common rabble. ]