It is not the bloodletting that calls down power. It is the consenting.

Mary Renault
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The bloodletting that calls down power is the consenting. Bloodletting is the act of taking people's blood for power. If someone is willing to give up their own blood, then they are willing to give up their power. The only way to gain power is to take it away from someone else.

Source: The King Must Die

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