Inheritance Doctrine: Concubine’s Children
Did you know that in a lot of societies that allowed concubinage, the children of concubines weren’t allowed to inherit like children from spouses could?
This mod adds 3 doctrines, 3 traits and 2 character interactions.
The first doctrine, "Legitimate", is the default doctrine and under it the children of concubines are allowed to inherit just like the children of spouses. Children of concubines are born with the "Equal Offspring" trait.
The second doctrine, "Legitimisation", has children of concubines be unable to inherit by default. However, you can legitimise any of them you like. Children of concubines who have no legitimised or born-in-marriage siblings will be born with the "Unclear Offspring" trait, but will otherwise be born as "Lesser Offspring."
The third doctrine, "No Legitimisation", has children of concubines be unable to inherit and you cannot legitimise them. Children of concubines are born with the "Lesser Offspring" trait.
You may notice that religions start without any of these doctrines. This is functionally the same as having the "Legitimate" doctrine.
Whether or not the child of a concubine can inherit is shown by which of three traits they have:
"Lesser Offspring" = can’t inherit.
"Unclear Offspring" = can inherit, but is replaced with lesser offspring the moment one of their siblings becomes equal offspring or a sibling is born in marriage. Exists mostly to prevent dynasties hitting dead ends when rulers take concubines but not spouses.
"Equal Offspring" = can inherit.
Legitimising / de-legitimising the children of concubines is done through a character interaction. Requirements include:
– Being the same house as them.
– Being their parent or house head.
– If legitimising, your faith must not have the "No Legitimisation" doctrine.
– If de-legitimising, your faith must have the "No Legitimisation" or "Legitimisation" doctrine.
– Cannot be a concubine or lowborn (duh).
The interactions cost prestige, 45 or 10 depending on your doctrine.
Compatibility:
99% chance it’s compatible with any other mod.
It only adds things, it doesn’t overwrite anything. Can’t have "oh no both these mods overwrite the same thing" problems if one of the mods doesn’t overwrite anything. You can play this with Medieval Matriarchs, More Tenet Slots, even a mod that also messes with how inheritance works will likely be compatible with this.
Most recent additions:
– Stuff with the "Unclear Offspring" trait.
– Decisions for mass legitimizing and de-legitimizing offspring. This costs the same amount of prestige as using the interaction would, except you can go into the negatives.
Areas to improve on for this mod:
– When you convert or reform your religion to have a different concubine-child doctrine, it doesn’t automatically change the legitimacy of the kids you’ve had from your concubines. For now this is somewhat made up for with it costing more than 3 times less to legitimise/de-legitimise if your doctrine is "Legitimate" or "No Legitimisation".
– Since AI will pretty much never actually change their doctrines when reforming their faiths and none of the faiths start with any of the doctrines, this is basically player-only.
– I have some idea of how I’ll fix both these issues, however these will take some time, will be save-compatible and I figured this mod is pretty fun as it is.
Chinese Translation:
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Revisions:
Old revisions of this mod are available below. Click the link to download.
