Blood Legacies (UPDATE 16/05/25| New Demo | 203k words)

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Others have already responded, and emphasized the point that this is not a historical medieval story, this is another world and it is High Fantasy, Not Low Fantasy, and I believe you may have confused two different places with different cultures when talking about Eleazar and reputation, but I will talk more about it below. I will leave aside the world issues, as others (Thank you) have already responded and explained.

But sleeping with one bastard is basically in the view of the Petrunians, tainting their blood and more, many even see it as cursing or other terrible things. So you got it right in the sense that yes, this is seen as tainting their blood and something of great repudiation by the Petrunian houses, who are mostly proud.

In Darian things are different, okay. Very different, as I mentioned above in the link and in the text.

In summary: Petrus cares more about reputation
Darian cares more about strength.

Now a point that has not been talked about yet and that I think you interpreted wrong and confused me :melting_face::sweat_smile: when you said that I said that all that matters to the father (Eleazar) of the MC is appearance, this gave me a short circuit and I went back to read up to see if I had said that and forgotten. You said “You said in the quoted message that appearance is everything for someone like MC’s father, but why is there no consequence for cutting him with the sword in public? That’s a very grave loss of face that isn’t addressed later at all.”

But in the text I said that for Darian and Eleazar: “Being well regarded is much more important to the Petrunians than being stronger, UNLIKE DARIAN, which values STRENGTH and BLOOD more than anything else, it’s no wonder that many Darians don’t care how they will be seen, even if they are considered cruel or extremist. (Eleazar is an example) Or anything else like that.” I think the confusion came from the fact that it could be interpreted that Darian also values reputation more, since both Petrus and Darian were mentioned. I apologize if it was confusing in the text.

Therefore your comparison with the MC’s affront to Eleazar in DARIAN, and what happened in PETRUS can be interpreted as affronts from both (MC and Hayden). Of course, it is a valid question, but in the case of the MC, this does not stain their reputation, even though there may be gossip, it does not carry the same weight as what Hayden did. Do you understand? Because there, many may see what the MC did as courage, like “Oh, he dared to attack the Duke himself! What a foolishness! Shame and etc.” but it can also be interpreted by others from the people of Darian as “Look how brave he/she/they are! Dared to try to attack the Duke! And did not fear!” and so on.

Additionally,

Hayden

Hayden will be forced into other marriages later on one way or another. What Hayden did was buy time by tarnishing his reputation.

Any other questions, feel free to ask and talk :grin:

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Thank you very much, and that is something I am already working on. With a version with the files with scenes in chronological order and not skipped. This way it will be more coherent in the timeline and even better developed :grin:

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Lol. I could totally see everyone thinking MC has gonads for standing up to and challenging their dad.

Shoot. My MC might need to kidnap his future husband sooner then planned. Where’s that dragon egg? :rofl:

MC won’t fight if not necessary. Will fight all of Darian and Petrus for Hayden. Lol

I don’t think the academy has happened yet in this current demo.

That and Hayden’s character was never written to be this virginal flower. Even the og old demo, Hayden was known for their rumored affairs and flirty behavior.

Respectfully, if that isn’t your type, then Hayden isn’t the RO for you.

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It’s not my nature to hurt my parents even if they’re being an ass, verbal is fine but physical that’s kinda red line for me.

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Same. My MC is all teen rebellion and anger at his dad who he blames his mom’s death on. Had his dad did his proper job as Duke and set aside personal vendettas, the rebels would have never garnered such a foothold leading to the attack that killed mom…at least in my MC’s perspective.

However, he only ever threw that accusation on that day long ago. He doesn’t rub her death in his dad’s face. And although he will argue and fight with his old man, he wouldn’t hurt him physically. He still loves Eleazor in his own son-father way. He does his best as a son and heir, he just has boundaries that he will stubbornly hold to no matter how much arguing and glaring with his old man it takes.

Famously, MC and Eleazor had a three week showdown of glaring and silent treatment between them over a book. See, MC was team Jacob, Sir Fion was team Edward, and Eleazor was team this-is-stupid-and-i’m burning-this-book-in-the-fireplace. Needless to say, a new copy of the book was purchased after a silent peace pact was made to not burn literature…even if it’s hot garbage…in the future.

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In my game Hayden is a dude. Who beds a dude. There is zero chance of pregnancy.
So why is Hayden shunned as bad as if he could give birth to a mud blood?
That’s precisely my stumbling point. Had Hayden been genderlocked to be princess it would have been understandable.

MC gets to draw blood out of the Duke → duke appears weak enough in public (remember how he accosted MC for having bear scars as proof that he got sloppy to let an enemy close).
But in the very next scene the Duke talks to MC as if nothing happened. MC should’ve been punished. Publicly. Before the commoners get any ideas that you could yeet steel at the lord and get away with it.

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Because, again, this is a fantasy world and the society that exists in this fantasy world views it that way. Just like how ppl think touching a gay makes you gay. Ppl are stupid, superstitious, and prone to idiotic assumptions based on fears and biases.

What makes blood purity? How does a commoner’s blood differ from a noble, truly? It doesn’t, but ppl honestly believed they were as different as two different species.

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dont remeber a duke did blame me for my scars more they were all scared from me a 12 or 13 old kid kills a bear our mc did even supass our father with that

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Eleazor and Mom: Eleven

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What the mc did could also reinforce other factors, such as Sir Fion being a traitor, that his evil influence, etc., made the mc act that way in the execution. The people of Darian could easily believe that, as they view traitors with great suspicion.

Eleazar may get angry, but he wouldn’t blame the mc, and he wouldn’t punish the mc publicly for it. Simply because it would be something that Eleazar’s father, the mc’s grandfather (deceased), would do. Eleazar has a lot on his mind that maybe I’ll bring up later. But many may also think: It’s the traitor’s influence. He did something wicked or something like that to the mc. After all, he kidnapped him, and if Eleazar had paranoid thoughts about it, so would his people. And of course, this can be seen as weakness and disunity by enemies and allies, but again, Eleazar wouldn’t punish the mc publicly, for various reasons, and one of those is Eleazar’s own father.

Furthermore, it was the mc, the future leader of Darian, who dared to make such an attack, not just any commoner or noble. Of all those who could do this, the mc would be one of the only ones or the only one to come out unscathed from such audacity. After all, mc is of Eleazar’s own blood, unlike the others, who wouldn’t be so crazy as to do this. Eleazar doesn’t spare enemies, but someone of his own blood? That’s different.

P.S.: I remember adding something about this in the scene if you choose to try to attack Eleazar; did it not show up?

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No, I saw it mentioned that it may effect ppls future views of the relationship between father and child.

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did show up but even if our father is harsh i dont would attack him

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I figured as much. Eleazor is paranoid, overprotective to the extreme, and a bit on the tyrannical side…but it’s from a place of a father’s love. Specially a father who lost his wife because he hadn’t been there. So of course he goes to extreme in his efforts to ensure he never loses his kid.

Which is why my MC is learning to stand his ground and temper his father’s antics, since Mom isn’t around anymore to do it.

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It doesn’t really matter if it’s an affair that give birth to Bastard or not, the main problem here is the act itself, doing it outside of marriage is considered bad be it in the story author make or our real world feudal era.

It doesn’t matter if it’s straight or gay, it’s about the legality and social custom.

I have a limit on how much a person did it to be considered out of the line, more than 5 then it’s red line for me, 1 or 2 or 3 maybe it’s a mistake, foolishness of the youth at play but more than 5 then it’s more likely they sold themselves cheap or just straight out playgirl or playboy.

That’s inconsistency that author need to address like turning against Duke can be considered treason or something of a repercussion of auch action, My mc didn’t turn on her dad, my MC killed Fion herself because it’s Duke orders, even if she doesn’t want to do that I don’t see any way out of this, if there is a way to spare Fion I would seek it.

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my mc has the tendacy to become like our father could be a intresting future^^ did not forgot that our King told one duke not to send his troops to help our father fight the rebels maybe it would be now differnt mother still alive and all rebels dead

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Yeah I do mention before Father is out of control, I killed Fion but argue about torturing Fiona relatives, it’s make no sense to further make a mess of situation by torturing random people.

I wanted to be fair, I will be rough when situation demand it but will be considerate if I can get away with it, my answer always violence os after all peaceful resolution has been exhausted, if the opposition doesn’t want to negotiate doesn’t want to budge like in rebellion scene they forced my hand to be harsh.

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I feel like mine takes more after his mom. Which is fair. But he has developed his own overprotective streak for loved ones, just on a less extreme level compared to dad.

I feel like this is where MC commiserates with Hayden. This hate between their parents has reached levels of stupid that can only end in mutual destruction. The death of the Queen, princess, and MC’s mom being proof of that.

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It’s because Eleazar is a hypocrite, he say that Duty and Honor is meaningless then proceed to guard border instead of his own castle, it’s stupid and foolishly hypocritical.

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thats true, just my mc dident blame his father for it he blames the king for it. but i have the feeling there is more in play what we aint know yet

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In the same sense, if Eleazor has such long-standing bad blood with the King and is so anti-showing weakness, he never should have trusted in that promise of backup. Should have took enough soldiers with him.

Arguments can be made on both sides. Point is, my MC is at least determined to sacrifice pride and bury the hatchet with Hayden on this family feud. In his eyes, it’s stupid and destructive. (Also wants to marry Hayden…but that in its own will be a battle of kids vs fathers)

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