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Not sure how it played out in Asia, but in much of Europe, the lineages of the royalty and noble classes starts to look extremely sus if you look closely.Unless you have a serious recessive genetic condition in your genealogy, it takes more than a few generations of direct line incest to really start producing retards and deformed people. I've read various things on it over the years and it can be imperceptible for many generations apparently, way more then you'd think, and even when things start to go wrong, they don't just start suddenly producing malformed idiots, it's a slower process than you'd expect. You can get away with a few generations of siblings hooking up and only suffer very minor, if any, genetic degradation.
Turns out when you prioritize keeping the blood blue, you don't have many options that AREN'T incest.