Generate Missing Parents

Generates missing parents for landed rulers children, including dead children and illegitimate children.

Will try to use an existing spouse or concubine before generating a character.

Can choose to generate missing parents for just AI rulers or include playable characters too.

About
There are over 450 children of rulers in a vanilla game that have no corresponding mother or father. There may be more in extension or TC mod games.

This mod runs independently to the vanilla Generate Families game rule, concerning itself with only existing children that have a missing parent.

Where possible the primary spouse, or secondary spouse(s) and concubine(s), will be used before a parent character is generated. When a parent is generated they will be married to the ruler if possible, or made a concubine of the ruler if possible, otherwise will be a courtier of the ruler where possible, and finally they will be a wandering character located in the ruler’s capital if there is no other possibility.

Generated parents will capture all possible children, so a ruler with 10 children will typically end up with just one generated spouse/concubine/courtier/wandering parents.

Illegitimate children will not share a parent with legitimate children, so if a ruler has 3 legitimate children and 2 bastards, then they will have a parent generated for the legitimate children (if necessary) and another parent generated for the illegitimate children.

Legitimized bastards are classed as legitimate children and as such will always have a parent generated for them but will not share a parent with legitimate children, instead they will have a new parent and may share that parent with any illegitimate children, so for RP purposes that ruler favoured one or more of their bastards from that man/woman to legitimize.

HOW TO
There are two rules for this mod that control how the missing parents are generated.

Generate Missing Parents
This rule controls the generation of missing parents with the following settings.

• Off = Will not generate missing parents
• AI rulers, legitimate children = Generate missing parent only for AI rulers, but only for their legitimate children
• AI rulers, all children = Generate missing parent only for AI rulers, for all their children regardless of legitimacy
• All rulers, legitimate children = Generate missing parent for all rulers, but only for their legitimate children
• All rulers, all children = Generate missing parent for all rulers, for all their children regardless of legitimacy

Generate Missing Parents (Deceased)
This rule controls whether the mod processes only living children or both living and dead children, with the following settings.

• Living Only = Only generate missing parents for living children
• Living and Dead = Generate parents for both living and dead children

Note
If a ruler has more than one wife or concubines then the ruler’s children will be assigned to them where possible taking their ages into consideration.

All spouses, concubines and generated parents comply with the proper age span between child and parent to avoid a CTD caused by illegal births.

All generated parents are noble, and will have random traits and education levels. Unfortunately they will not share DNA with the children due to limitations in the game engine.

Be warned that generated courtier/wandering parents may leave the ruler’s court/capital, and end up anywhere in any capacity, including married to other rulers as the game progresses.

COMPATIBILITY
This mod does not edit vanilla files, so should be compatible with most other mods, and be fairly future proof so don’t panic when the game says it’s out of date for future game updates.

• Ironman = yes
• Fantasy mods = although the mod will probably run without errors, it is unlikely to reflect any esoteric features of the fantasy mod.

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