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It is known that the building began as a very sacred place--a passage for boys into adulthood, a marker of a major milestone in these boys' lives. Inscribed on the stone walls inside is the layout for the tribe's initiation that would take place for each boy following their ninth birthday. We can assume that upon entrance into the building, the boy accepts some sort of challenge. It is believed that each boy's challenges and trials were different, but we know all was designed to exploit and identify faults and weaknesses in the child. Once the child has undergone this, they all receive a kind of aptitude test that was very important to their social class in the future. When the boy left that building, they knew their occupation, ambitions, social class, and starting military rank (once of age). This all had no regard for personal preference or interest, but citizens thought little of this. The oligarchical government had been taking steps to, in effect, purify the human race; they said that the modern day man was half of what he used to be. The true reason was much less practical: for centuries, the leaders had had a blood line of succession completely pure of the faults identified in the brick building, and the family line was dying. The family had to either sacrifice their "pure" blood status, or attempt to create another group of individuals fit to marry into the blood line. Knowing that little time was left for the salvation of their breed, the leaders made the abrupt decision to reinstate the use of the brick building in a time when it had not been used for ages. Children would experience the worldly boundaries of pain and suffering to qualify as a candidate for the leaders. Only one thing was chosen for the girls and boys who endured this--his or her spouse.