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Author Topic: [40d] Queen Consort is the King's relative  (Read 1036 times)

Nikinyo

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[40d] Queen Consort is the King's relative
« on: November 19, 2008, 04:02:52 pm »
Don't know if it is a bug, but the King's wife is shown in his relationships list as his cousin... that could be a feature, but she is shown not as Queen Consort, but as a Guard on the unit list.

Why do I always get pervert Kings? My first King's spouse was a man, and now this...
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Keldor

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Re: [40d] Queen Consort is the King's relative
« Reply #1 on: November 19, 2008, 04:56:48 pm »
Urist Vlnebopffdsse (Queen) has created an artfact family tree!
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Re: [40d] Queen Consort is the King's relative
« Reply #2 on: November 19, 2008, 06:22:24 pm »
about her being a guard it is a bug, about being a cousin...
in the past royal family trees were quite twisted.
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Re: [40d] Queen Consort is the King's relative
« Reply #3 on: November 19, 2008, 09:09:44 pm »
Consolidation of power within the bloodline.
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Re: [40d] Queen Consort is the King's relative
« Reply #4 on: November 20, 2008, 10:31:51 am »
Quote from: andrea on November 19, 2008, 06:22:24 pm
about her being a guard it is a bug, about being a cousin...
in the past royal family trees were quite twisted.

Oh yes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incest#Ancient_civilizations
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Re: [40d] Queen Consort is the King's relative
« Reply #5 on: November 20, 2008, 11:15:22 am »
Incest is the prerogative of gods and royalty.
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Re: [40d] Queen Consort is the King's relative
« Reply #6 on: November 20, 2008, 01:47:28 pm »
All the nobility everywhere ever are a load of inbred twerps who were at the back of the line when the brains and chins were handed out.
Most, if not all royalty in the real world are the products of generations of cousin marrying.
Or, in a few cases, sibling-marrying.
That's when you get the mad hunchback kings.
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Nikinyo

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Re: [40d] Queen Consort is the King's relative
« Reply #7 on: November 20, 2008, 04:21:19 pm »
Ok then, but she should at least be shown in the relationships list both as King's cousin and his wife...
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Re: [40d] Queen Consort is the King's relative
« Reply #8 on: November 20, 2008, 05:00:42 pm »
Genetically speaking, second cousins are about as far as you need to worry about incest being dangerous.  Beyond that, it's a purely social (read: uselessly defined in the raws but not necessarily acted upon casus belli) more.
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« Reply #9 on: November 20, 2008, 05:53:20 pm »
Quote from: Granite26 on November 20, 2008, 05:00:42 pm
Genetically speaking, second cousins are about as far as you need to worry about incest being dangerous.

Unless your Amish, then it gets to be a problem (they have marriage exchanges across state lines being the only valid marriage because of the lack of genetic diversity caused by the inbreeding).
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Granite26

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Re: [40d] Queen Consort is the King's relative
« Reply #10 on: November 20, 2008, 06:31:45 pm »
yeah, but that's second cousins every time for many generations
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