Prestige for marrying into your own house

[S0ny B1ack]

While playing with the King of Poland I had a granddaughter (of my dynasty) who would inherit a dutchy, because i didn't want her to do some stupid marriage which would have lost the dutchy for us i triied if it would be possible to arrange a betrothal between her (she wasn't yet 16) and my own son (also still a child) and the interface said that he would get around 40 prestige for marrying into the Piast dynasty.

I guess this is some minor bug, since i don't understand why my son (which is of course part of my (Piast) dynasty) would get prestige from marrying into it again :S

Here is a screenshot of the situation:

 

[Dragnar]

While that may look kinda wierd, it's actually a nice incentive for prestigious dynasties to just marry into other branches of the same dynasty instead of diversifying.
As that's what historically happened a lot, I kinda like it.

 

[Achim Detjen]

Do that for a few generations and you'll start making the late Habsburgs look rather handsome and intelligent.

 

[artfox]

I agree. This is part of the game design. We are not going to change it.

 

[Ruwaard]

While that may look kinda wierd, it's actually a nice incentive for prestigious dynasties to just marry into other branches of the same dynasty instead of diversifying.
As that's what historically happened a lot, I kinda like it.

In medieval times the church was actually against marriages between too closely related bride and groom, IIRC this was for any consanguinity up to the fifth degree. In general these rules even applied for high nobility and royalty, however they sometimes managed to acquire a dispensation.

Maybe they should get an automatic piety penalty or a consanguinity event, which could potentially lead to the marriage being forbidden by the church or being allowed under certain conditions.