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Total Members Voted: 84

[EuchreJack]

+1 It's better to be the pedophile then be married to one.

I cannot fathom why, considering Elodie is 14 and that boy is 12

Yeah, but Elodie will be 16 when the boy is 14.  Or 18-16.  So yeah, not really a big deal.
Still fun to marry someone a bit younger, plus our children will inherit the crown and whatever lands that entails, our father's duchy (assuming we outlive him, heh), and now our husband's duchy.  So more consolidation of power.  Plus, the boy is already used to taking orders from others, so he won't have any trouble obeying his Two Year Older Queen-Wife totally and completely.
+1 to marry.

[Culise]

+1 It's better to be the pedophile then be married to one.

I cannot fathom why, considering Elodie is 14 and that boy is 12

Yeah, but Elodie will be 16 when the boy is 14.  Or 18-16.  So yeah, not really a big deal.
Still fun to marry someone a bit younger, plus our children will inherit the crown and whatever lands that entails, our father's duchy (assuming we outlive him, heh), and now our husband's duchy.  So more consolidation of power.  Plus, the boy is already used to taking orders from others, so he won't have any trouble obeying his Two Year Older Queen-Wife totally and completely.
+1 to marry.

True, but there's some caveats to that sort of planning. 

Spoiler: Minor "Novan History" Skill note (click to show/hide)

I don't recall if we pushed Novan History to 10 yet, but Novan succession law is specifically designed to avoid this kind of concentration of power.  The Duchy of Caloris, presently held by Elodie's father, can't be inherited by Elodie because she holds the crown lands.  If she marries Adair, his duchy and the crown will presumably eventually go to separate children, or if she only has one child, the duchy will go to a cousin or some other more distant collateral branch.  It's also this law that Joslyn is referring to; the comment about her holding two duchies is essentially a loophole in this since she's only holding it "in trust" for Adair as a regent.  There are more spoilers about this law in a different circumstance, but these are actual ending spoilers, so I won't be going into that.

That said, assuming the marriage isn't a total disaster, they'll presumably work together as husband and wife for their lifetimes, which will effectively join Elath to the crown lands for the duration in practice, if not in law.  That is perfectly legal, and happens all the time.

Oh, and except for the first note, none of that is actually spelled out by the game; it's just extrapolation on my part on what would happen well after the game's events. 

[Urist Imiknorris]

Screw it, marry the poor kid. Another meat shield for the assassins is a good thing, right?

[anailater]

Ba bum bum Ba bum
Da bum de bum
This is a bad rendition of the marriage song.

[Empiricist]

Marry him. No-one can get in our pants if someone else is already in them, right?

[Yoink]

Duuuuude. I doubt a 14 year old girl's first reaction would be "Yeah, sure, I'll marry this boy who I've never met!"
Maybe I'm crazy. I dunno.

>Send him to our uncle.

[birdy51]

I hear wedding bells.

[IronyOwl]

Week 22 Continued: Mawwage

MAWWAGE.

Ten points for Griffindor.



Yaaaaaay~


If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.


Oh, so he's not old enough to marry, but he is old enough to live in our house as our "companion." Mommy didn't happen to die after kidnapping a handsome peasant whose fiance came to rescue him, did she?




This thing is all sorts of out of date. Barracks is +1 Pressured, -1 Willful; Dungeons is +1 Willful, +1 Angry.

[Taricus]

Nice to know the kingdom has SOME laws atleast

To the Dungeon!

[GiglameshDespair]

Dungeon.

[Glloyd]

Joslyn looks so sad, that doesn't bode too well.

Hm...

Dungeons it is.

[Urist Imiknorris]

Maximum willpower +1 dungeon

[Elephant Parade]

Dungeons.

[birdy51]

It's time for a good spot of Dungeon Crawling.

[Broken]

Yeah, why not? The Dungeon seem a good place for our honeymoon