Are there no plans for any female aristocratic RO? For a male MC that is.
This is the most up-to-date list of ROs I know of:
As you can see, both Teren and the Thaumatarch’s heir are aristos that can be romanced by a hetero male MC. IIRC, Teren will show up in the second game, while the heir will make their appearance in the third one.
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If you are a nationalist, unfortunately there is none compatible.
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Yeah, I usually just end up modding Suzane to be female.
The opposite gender of Breden. But it’s possible to mod the game so they both have the same gender.
It will carry over without messing with anything unless the author specifically codes something that will mess with it( And I frankly fail to see why he would).
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Suzanne is female?
Yeah but will that carry over into the second game or mess with the coding?
Likewise. 
I don’t write with modding in mind at all, neither to facilitate nor discourage it.
She’s a Machiavellian realist, as well as a Leaguer, and will be down for a romance with a nationalist MC under the right circumstances. I’m re-reading The Prince and Discourses as we speak to help me get Teren right.
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Maybe I’m mistaken, but I got the impression that there was a certain nationalistic undercurrent running through the Leaguer faction. If Horion is any indication, they seem fixated not only on created a new confederation of provinces, but also in ensuring that a resurgent Shayard plays a central (maybe even dominant) role in this new league and is able to “reclaim its place in the sun”, as it were.
Is that at all an accurate read on them, or am I completely wrong here?
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Yes, that’s the Leaguer vision; some will give less emphasis to Shayard’s centrality, but all are happy to use that idea as a way of winning over dubious Shayardene nobles, at the very least. And all are disdainful of the Laconniers’ attempts to recreate and reestablish a supposedly authentic pre-Conquest Shayardene culture.
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@Havenstone how much of a difference will there be in G2 between a character that specializes in an attribute versus a character that raises a secondary attribute?
Good question. 
I’m going to try to make it equally fun regardless, but we’ll see.
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Teren sounds very dangerous (unless the gender flipped version is radically different. 
), but then my mc doesn’t subscribe to the leaguers vision of the future anymore than he does to the Laconnier one as in the end he would like a more integrated state, even if federalism is likely to be inescapable a confederation would be a step too far and a much stronger federal government than what Horion seemed to envisage.
@Havenstone am I correct in assuming Teren is just as clever as their uncle and far more ruthless?
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Oh, that’s really interesting. It’ll be fun to see how that squares off against most of the other political thinkers in the XoR world.
By the way, Havenstone: is having the Diadoch’s gender be the same as Breden’s set in stone? Personally, I’m much more for a option to pick their gender when we meet them, and I don’t really think it breaks immersion at all, if done well. But tha’s just me.
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I’m pretty set on not multiplying genderflip pronoun variables more than I already have…
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Ah, that’s ok, then. I actually thought setting a genderflipping choice would be easier than having it be decided by another character’s gender 
Nope. I’ve already got a perfectly good “xhe” set of pronoun variables for the first gender a non-ace MC is attracted to. It’s easier to use that than to come up with a new set unique to each character.
What worries me is what “right circumstances” entitles. How much my MC will have to give up and how much she is willing to give up are the questions that might make me romance her or not (maybe she is the type of “my way out the highway”?).
What is so disdainful about old Shayard culture for them?
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We’ll see!
That the Laconniers have invented so much of it, to try to make up for the gaps left by 300 years of colonization and assimilation.
Assuming I succeed in writing them that way.
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Well…then the ruthless part has me very worried. 
I guess we’ll know once you get around to putting chapter 3 in alpha. 
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@Havenstone - My girlfriend finally got around to playing your game, and she loved it.
She also had a question: was some of your inspiration from Queen Nzinga of Ndongo? Someone who was considered a brilliant tactician, savvy politician, and even willing to pick up the battle axe as necessary? (Obviously fighting against the Portuguese)
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