"Some," he said warily. "Master Mott didn't. Master Gret ain't got any either. And I've known others besides with no family."

And he supposed they had the right of it. They beat their legacies in steel and passed their skills to those that could handle the craft. Perhaps if they had sons of their own, they wouldn't be suited to the work! It was better to find a skilled successor than to simply hope for a wife that could birth one.