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numerobis

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[40d] wife labeled as aunt
« on: February 07, 2009, 09:15:42 pm »
Cog and Ustuth just got married.  Cog is Ustuth's aunt (it's a small village).  In Cog's relationship screen, Ustuth is listed as her husband.  Is Ustuth's relationship screen, Cog is listed as his aunt.  Similarly, prior to marrying, Ustuth was Cog's lover, but Cog was Ustuth's aunt.
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Re: [40d] wife labeled as aunt
« Reply #1 on: February 07, 2009, 09:31:38 pm »
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Re: [40d] wife labeled as aunt
« Reply #2 on: February 07, 2009, 10:42:19 pm »
Is this a live game, or in history?
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Re: [40d] wife labeled as aunt
« Reply #3 on: February 08, 2009, 03:10:02 am »
Live game.  Ustuth is the second generation born in the fortress.
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Re: [40d] wife labeled as aunt
« Reply #4 on: February 08, 2009, 03:37:29 am »
You know, I often wondered if the game had safeguards against this kind of thing.
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Re: [40d] wife labeled as aunt
« Reply #5 on: February 08, 2009, 03:48:49 am »
Siblings don't marry.  But I guess dwarf society defines "kissing cousins" loosely.

They're about the same age, note.  Dwarves don't seem to get to Know other dwarves who are much older -- one of my founders is an unmarried woman, while I have a surplus of young men.
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Re: [40d] wife labeled as aunt
« Reply #6 on: February 10, 2009, 05:29:35 am »
Can you verify through legends whether the she-dwarf in question really is his aunt?  Aunts don't have to be much older than their nephews, especially if dwarves don't suffer from the drop in fertility with age that hinders humans.

Either some kind of bug occurred that's printing the wrong data relation, which is boring.  Or the poor fool really did go and marry his cousin, in which case his children will have webbed feet.  Awesome.
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Re: [40d] wife labeled as aunt
« Reply #7 on: February 10, 2009, 06:55:35 am »
You would have to marry someone a lot closer than your cousin to have kids with webbed feet.
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Re: [40d] wife labeled as aunt
« Reply #8 on: February 10, 2009, 08:55:44 am »
Quote from: Onlyhestands on February 10, 2009, 06:55:35 am
You would have to marry someone a lot closer than your cousin to have kids with webbed feet.

Probably multiple times in the family same tree as well :) Still once Toady gets around to putting in genes and inheritance then I'm sure we can manage it somehow.
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Re: [40d] wife labeled as aunt
« Reply #9 on: February 10, 2009, 12:15:25 pm »
Quote from: tigrex on February 10, 2009, 05:29:35 am
Can you verify through legends whether the she-dwarf in question really is his aunt?
That's too much work.  I can verify by checking their parents though.  The options for my younger dwarves are: marry an aunt/uncle, marry a cousin, or marry Tosid.

BTW, I can now confirm the same bug happens with cousins.
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Re: [40d] wife labeled as aunt
« Reply #10 on: February 10, 2009, 02:30:25 pm »
I really don't get why people are up in arms about this sort of thing. The notion that you shouldn't marry cousins is fairly new, and Western, so is it really a bug?
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Re: [40d] wife labeled as aunt
« Reply #11 on: February 10, 2009, 03:51:02 pm »
Quote from: chaoticag on February 10, 2009, 02:30:25 pm
I really don't get why people are up in arms about this sort of thing. The notion that you shouldn't marry cousins is fairly new, and Western, so is it really a bug?

Also, we don't even know if the aunt was a blood relation or not.  Although that situation would require remarriage, which I'm not sure the game has yet.
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Re: [40d] wife labeled as aunt
« Reply #12 on: February 10, 2009, 04:26:41 pm »
In all fairness, the bug report was for the fact that the relationship name (aunt instead of wife) didn't change based on the marriage, not specifically the inbreeding part.
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Re: [40d] wife labeled as aunt
« Reply #13 on: February 14, 2009, 03:48:54 am »
Yes, I'm in favour of inbred dwarves as far as that idea goes.  The nobles, for example, already behave as though their parents were siblings.

It would give immigrants a new use, besides - giving the fort access to a wider gene pool.
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Re: [40d] wife labeled as aunt
« Reply #14 on: February 14, 2009, 03:57:56 am »
I'm just waiting for dwarves to start marrying themselves. Or lesbian dwarves.
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