It is explained right away in the next chapter, but it was always something that I wish more that had the "telepathic from birth" races would deal with. Which is an infant's mind, regardless of species, would be extremely chaotic with no sense of right or wrong, no sense of anything but impulse. Which is extremely dangerous. So in Thener society the strongest like 2% of the population are trained into being Priests, and among other things, trained how to perform a Blessing for an infant. Until an infant is blessed, the parents are not allowed into the mind of their child, it's too dangerous. Once the Blessing has been performed, the impulsive child is rendered telepathically harmless until they're old enough for it to not be as big a deal.

Most instances of "telepathic from birth" instead just do a sort of hand wave of "it's never an issue" or the more annoying "this thing has only been just born is already as intelligent and wise as someone who has lived twenty years or more."

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