Win!

That's when they made Entrepeunor. (Still cant spell)

Why was he in prison though?

This is made of win!   A turn based mode (single player or mp) ala Final Fantasy: Tactics would also be extremely awesome as well.

Shack: What's the deal with multiplayer? Is it essentially the single player component with human players?

Brad Wardell: Not quite. We have some special modes for multiplayer. We have an arena mode, which is almost a little bit like Demigod, where you go into a tactical battle. Whoever wins that wins the game. That's for the guy who only has 20 minutes to play. Then you have small maps, very small maps, where the object is not to destroy the other guys, because that can take a long time, but rather to capture and hold victory shards. It's kind of like Company of Heroes, where you have to capture victory flags. I don't know how much of that will show up in single player--single player will have its own campaign mode and stuff. The idea is to have a very broad audience for this game.

 

So there is more to multiplayer right, then quick battles and tiny maps? Am I correct to assume that these are the possibilities in addition to the much bigger, more fulfilling options?

Here here.

Maybe male sovereigns have patriarchies and female sovereigns have matriarchies?  That would allow for a game system as well as just make sense to me. 

I don't think it should be that simple. For example, the English have had a few queens, but their 'normal' succession is to first-born males. I'd be most entertained by a game that could have some realms fall into civil wars based on the lack of a legitimate heir while others can tolerate the occasional compromise when the realm prefers to keep a given family on the throne. And I really do like the idea of some factions having a sovereign-in-waiting who is simply named by the current sovereign, with or without a bloodline or marital connection. In some families, the most important lesson you can learn is not to trust any of your kin...

I was going to say the same thing, BUT there's a caveat - if OTHER soverign dies it means something who THEIR HEIR is..heh...because they'll get all/many of the cities, etc. 

Sovereigns aren't immortal, the devs just use that word instead of ageless, not sure why. You can't kill an immortal, but you can kill an Elemental sovereign.

That word-quibble aside, I wasn't thinking of the game continuing after my sovereign dies, but about successions among the AI factions and among vassals.

Re the dialog UI for arranging marriages, I kind of assumed there'd be something like that is already being designed and that the options available would reflect the culture of each faction discussing the possible marriage.

It was a documentary.

Well ageless doesn't work either. That implies that they never have and never will age. I am guessing they were children at one point and aged to a certain point and then only showed minute changes but aged.  Ageless would describe something like a vampire best, or anything that unnaturally stopped a biological clock.

Really though in sci-fi/ fantasy, immortal is the term that is more often used even if it is not 100% accurate.