How many generations will you control in CK?

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Originally posted by historycaesar
Question:

If your main line dies out, will play another line? example:

Your King dies but he has a daughter, would you then play the family of your daughter?

Depends on region, I guess. I mean, Salic law in France but there are no such law in HRE or England as far as I know. Maybe this will be dealt via event? I mean, if you are a ruler and you decide if you accept it or not. If you accept, there should be prestiage increase but your female children should be blocked off from taking the throne. You know what I am trying to say?

However, if you ignore the Salic law or refuse to accept it, you should take loss of presitage but you could have your grandchild by your daughter on throne.

 

[Lasse Nielsen]

could be important. The arguably greatest danish monarch was Magrethe I who was daughter of Valdemar Atterdag (New day/beginning). She was married to the norwegian king (who died) and inheritet denmark from her father. After this she was choosen as ruler of Sweden and assembled the 3 nations in the Kalmar Union. She had a son Olaf who was to rule when he became of age, but he died and she then adobted her sisters son Bugislav (Erik) who became king after her death.

 

[Solmyr]

We can only play the dynasties that already hold a throne? Does that mean that we can't play the Comneni, for example, since they don't hold the throne in 1066?

 

[Nikolai]

I think that is right, but since I guess we will have later scenarios too, it's not impossible.

 

[bgibbard]

Originally posted by Solmyr
We can only play the dynasties that already hold a throne? Does that mean that we can't play the Comneni, for example, since they don't hold the throne in 1066?

The impression (maybe not accurate) I have gotten is that you are not so much playing a particular dynasty (in the sense of only male-line descendants of your first monarch), but rather whoever the heir of your original monarch is. And I believe one of the Paradox or Snowball personnel has indicated some time ago that their is always some sort of heir, however distant. This need not mean a male-line heir with the same "surname" (though most medieval nationalities did not yet have surnames).

If the heir happens to be a Comnenus, (presumably through a female line, as happened historically) then your family changes to that one. (at least until such time as the heir again passes through a female line, and you become yet another family)

If my impression is accurate though, I would wonder what would happen in a multiplayer game when a single character in the game became the heir of the lines of two different real-life players.