How did the Emperor manage to gather such capable individuals among so many orphans?

It wasn't as if the Emperor had hundreds or thousands of children, nor did he deploy knights to go out and search for them.

Players speculated. Somehow, the Emperor must have had a “certain method” to gather these talented children, and perhaps that “certain method” was related to Claire or other bloodlines of the Emperor’s offspring. I ended up entering this world before I could see the truth in the game.

But who would have guessed that this “certain method” involved “mixing his own blood”?

If …