haha… imagine if that was the little boy/girl the mc found…
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And she’s pregnant with your child… Can you imagine your companion’s reactions?
Bran stares in horror.
Karl is speechless.
Theo facepalms, muttering ‘and they say mountain men are savages.’
…
Jess… Jess falls on the floor and bursts into hysterical laughter. showing the most emotion she ever has in the entire trilogy and brought to tears. Simply because at Petra’s expense. Finally having something to hold over the holy warrior.
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Well, the King and Queen have been dead for about 10 years, so unless the kid is older than that, it’s impossible 
Though I always think of them as being around 13 
@Nathan_Faxon and Petra would pray for forgiveness day in and day out 
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Since my character is a dragon rider, having surprise incest with Petra would solidify my Aegon Targaryen fantasies >_<
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And she’s pregnant with your child… Can you imagine your companion’s reactions?
Bran stares in horror.
Karl is speechless.
Theo facepalms, muttering ‘and they say mountain men are savages.’[/quote]
Lol, the horror…! And yet, there’s something… Darkly comical? Hysterically comical? Something like that, anyway, about the idea 
That indeed sounds like Jess 
That’d be the case assumming incest is indeed frowned upon by the religion Petra belongs to - and/or society in Daria in general, I’d say…
Even if it’s not frowned upon by religion, incest itself isn’t seen with good eyes in general: not only because they share blood, but in the long run it causes inbreeding and that’s not good, and you know, having that kind of relationship with a sibling/cousin/relative is not something everyone is fine with.
Anyways, it was a joke alluding her religious (and sometimes strict) character
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Even if it’s not frowned upon by religion, incest itself isn’t seen with good eyes in general: not only because they share blood, but in the long run it causes inbreeding and that’s not good, and you know, having that kind of relationship with a sibling/cousin/relative is not something everyone is fine with.[/quote]
That’d depend on the society in general as I said; historically, some societies have been more accepting of the idea than others. Not to mention that in some societies, the higher of the social classes were seen (both internally and externally) as entirely different breeds/races, leading to the belief that the same rules (even biological ones) didn’t apply to them…
I know, I know 
. Still a darkly comical idea, as I said
As DarkSpeck alluded to, incest was socially acceptable - even common - among medieval nobility in Europe. It’s not out of the realm of possibility for it to be just as accepted by medieval-ish fantasy nobility.
That said, I’d really rather the Lost Heir series not involve incest, particularly with one of the main character’s love interests.
Yeah, even the monarchs of past times were involved in incest. Much of the royalty married in-family, maybe distantly, but the sentiment still stands, in order to keep there royal status. There are plenty of examples, primarily in Britain and surrounding countries, for example William III and his wife Mary were cousins, and House Hanover is particularly prevalent for royal inbreeding (all King George’s married cousins). This, though, usually tied together Kingdoms, like in the case of William of Orange and Queen Mary, where the Dutch Republic and United Kingdom were joined by a ruler. So in the case of Petra marrying the MC, if she was a bastard or nay, it could also be seen as a consolidation of power.
This was probably me rattling off my knowledge of British history but hey, it related. Ish.
Ah… History…
Now we just need a King Henry VIII in the TLH series.
@Lucid cough cough
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Now there’s a monarch worthy of the prestige class: Player
You’re making poor assumptions about things, perhaps out of a desire to have a rosy view of Christianity for whatever reason.
Medieval European nobility, the medieval nobility that engaged heavily and openly in incest, was almost exclusively Christian. To not be Christian in that Era was incredibly dangerous, given the power of the Catholic Church at the time, which could make or break whole kingdoms. There really wasn’t a pagan nobility to scapegoat with this - it was not a case of “pagans incestuous, Christians not.”
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people just love to pick on petra… just because she’s the easiest target… if someone says jess was that bastard that was cast out because of the prejudice against soulburning and any wild speculation, everyone here would run to her defence… any of the companions and i mean any of them can be the “speculated” bastard given the limited history and lore we have, but really, this is not game of thrones people…
i sense a jess lover…
of course you are… so i know who your red is and if you killed him/her or not…
Hmm… but what if Peter/Petra is the MC’s secret sibling and the player ends up turning them into Red and killing them? Now that’s a tragedy for the books 
Open, lawful incest within the first degree was not practiced in Catholic Europe. I don’t know about Middle Ages pagans (I know Marion Zimmer Bradley allowed for it in Mists of Avalon, but her Celtic paganism was there to write a story rather than to be accurate); the closest thing to a mainstream religion at that time that practiced it was Zoroastrianism.
First-cousin incest was practiced, but then it’s not entirely illegal in the modern world either (it’s known in America).
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