During Vaan's conversation with Seraphina, he learned more about her paternal side in the Grand Unity Human Clan.
Her paternal side was the Five Elements Empyrean Family, led by Empyrean Five Elements, a descendant of Empyrean Grand Unity, the leader of the Grand Unity Human Clan. In fact, the heads of the hundred Empyrean Families were all Empyrean Grand Unity's descendants or relatives.
The whole Grand Unity Human Clan was ultimately one enormous, extended family.
Many disciples married into the direct and branch families and became true members of the Grand Unity Human Clan.
Even so, discrimination within the family existed, let alone against outsiders.
The bonds of marriage and shared bloodlines did not enable the hundred Empyrean Families of the Grand Unity Human Clan to coexist harmoniously. On the contrary, the infighting and competition for resources, power, and authority were even more intense than in the feudal countries of mortal realms.
