Even if the five great families had tried to maintain their power throughout the many years, their ways of operating had undergone various changes.
Among those five great families, the only family that had not changed so much was the Bennet family.
Such a family that continued to stick to the old ways would be more likely to welcome a time where they would get to experience what their ancestors once faced, since it would be an opportunity to prove that they were living up to their family name.
There was a need to prove themselves worthy of their family name, whether it was to try to live up to the feats that their ancestors once performed or to achieve something much greater.
Not everyone was so content to live off the achievements of their ancestors and to have their name passed down to later generations as being unable to live up to their name.
