Hypothesizing here, this issue of codepiling depends on your worldbuilding. If trans!MC can fully change their birth sex AND reproductive system via surgery just to be able produce children for the sake of being fully not-birth-sex, then why your world is stuck in medieval setting with THAT high-end medicine. Discoveries in medicine would have pushed science in other areas as well.
But I, once again, come to this: It is your decision, your effort, your time and your satisfaction
It’s already been established in this game that at the very least the kingdom you live in, if not other kingdoms, is perfectly okay with nonbinary identities and marriages regardless of sex or gender. It follows that the kingdom does not consider children to be the purpose of marriage, and that non-biological heirs would have to be accepted.
If there won’t be children, there’s no bloody point to an arrange marriage, mate. You might as well just send him off to marry some random servant girl. It won’t create the ultimate goal of an arranged marriage that ends with a child who is a part of both houses.
That’s what the point is - you create a child who is part of BOTH houses. That’s why it’s an alliance. Because without it, there’s no way to prove blood legitimacy, and if blood legitimacy doesn’t matter, then why have the entire problem of the queen being “cursed” for not being able to bear children?
True enough. Just look at recently released Sword of Dumb Country Rhivenia. Fem!MC-ruler can arrange political alliance via marriage with Queen Lena. And adopted children can count as heirs for rhivenians.
The problem of your statement is this. Why parents don’t arrange marriage for FIRSTBORN who’s gonna sit on the throne once queen and cuck-king kick the bucket. His children are gonna inherit both kingdoms (if he were to marry a princess). He’s a piece of shit, nobody likes him, that’s why there’s no marriage for him, arranged or voluntary
I really, really want you to understand this, but I have no idea which part of it you’re not getting. Is it the concept of sex? The concept of gender? The concept of marriage? The concept of alliances? The concept of heirs? You’re misunderstanding something here, and I don’t know where the misunderstanding is.
That… isn’t what the curse was about. Having twins was considered cursed. It had nothing to do with fertility, and also nothing to do with heirs. The purpose of wanting a third child was to remove the curse, not to have an heir. They already had an heir.
And at the same time, there have been literal millions who died because of legitimacy issues.
Simply put, either legitimacy matters - in which case you need to have children for an arranged marriage to make sense - Or it doesn’t, in which case the problem of the Queen not being able to have more children is irrelevant because the King could have just gotten some random consort.
A marriage is perfectly valid without children, even an arranged one for political purposes, even in our shitty world. Due to the hangups of our big monotheistic religions we often consider lack of biological kids less than ideal, but that does not invalidate a marriage. There have after all been plenty of kings who have been succeeded by a brother or even a cousin.
Not every ruler is Henry VIII.
I would hate to learn the history of mankind if that was true statement. Holy shit Russian history would have been much more wild. Japan’s and China’s too.
I agree that the issue of legitimacy is important. However, pedigree is not always the only source of legitimacy. Armed forces and religious authority are also important. And isn’t it premature to draw conclusions before knowing what they’re doing in this game world?
After your brothers were born, soothsayers concluded that the Queen was cursed. Barren. And for five years, they crowed about their prediction as she tried desperately to bear a third child. The kingdom’s subjects wondered what sin against heaven she had committed.
She was cursed to be barren. If being barren is a problem, then obviously, legitimacy must be valuable.
Except the entire point of an arranged marriage is to create a child of both houses. It doesn’t matter that you won’t inherit or whatever, there is literally no point to having an arranged marriage without a child because the ENTIRE POINT of an arranged marriage is to create an child of Both Houses.
It literally says she was cursed with being barren.
if the author’s want to make Ro gender not switchable for some reasons like it will be affecting the plot of the story (Good reason) or it also would help with thecoding part (Okay reason), i think it’s fine. You probably need to compensate player by give them options on how these supposed relationship work tho, could they become best friend and political partner instead?
Of course other ro gender and more ro in general available is also highly preferable so the player can have more time interactions with them and choose them.how they like it.
I’m talking about “blood” legitimacy - if there exists an inherited landed nobility, then there MUST be legitimacy of blood. If legitimacy of blood doesn’t real, then you cannot have a nobility, because literally anyone could be noble.
And if anyone could be noble, then that’s not a nobility, that’s just an authoritarian bureaucracy.
