Talk:Teague Martin/@comment-6747015-20130304041215/@comment-27202257-20130306015952

You're conflating a few different recruitment scenarios. In scenario A, the Overseers kill suspected/confirmed heretics and recruit any children the condemned had into the Order. In scenario B, the Overseers find a kid that they think would be suitable to the job, come in the night and take them away. (There's a note in the bunkhouse from one Overseer's parents attempting to contact him after his kidnapping, so we know not all parents are killed when their children are abducted.) Then, in scenario C, adults join the Abbey of their own volition, which we can expect Martin did after thieving and murdering got old.