Special spouse as rare quest reward

I want to marry a two headed ten armed troll!

Seeing as your children take up traits of their parents in this game wouldnt it be interesting if it was possible to marry rare/powerful creatures through special rare quests?

This could result in some very unique and powerful offspring.

If too powerful you could limit it to having one child before the creature goes on its way, perhaps even illegitimate if youre already married etc.

In short, i want a two headed, ten armed, half troll son! :troll:

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I fully expect, at one point, to save a princess or some rich/powerfull persons daughter (or son), and get to marry him/her as a reward.

Extra awesome if him/her has something special going for them, extra extra awesome if it's genetic.

So good idea, and i wouldn't surprise me if they thought of it already.

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Man, I feel so well behaved after not posting my original thought...

Reply #3 Top

Meet your new fiancee...

 

 

 

 

:(O

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Bet she gives great backrubs!

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you can always end up with a Confessor wife...  :-)

 

I agree with the OP, great idea

Reply #6 Top

great idea, I would luff to have a goddress as my wife XD

Reply #7 Top

That's a really good idea! Will give you the opportunity to give your empire a kind of mythic quality, with such exotic blood flowing in their veins :)

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If the base game supports bringing a 'monster' into your dynastic structure, I'd also hope to see some quests and/or independent powers that demanded one-time reproductive services from a sovereign, with maybe lesser versions for recruited champions and dynasty members. Geoff the Slug could support both "get me with child" and "bear my child" options, being a mollusc of sorts as he/she/it is.

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Sheesh, so now I'm an a-sexual slug...

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   When using a male soveriegn I would like to marry an "elf" looking woman with Silver Dragon blood who can transform and use the powers of.  Their heirs would have a possibility of receiving the same blood and powers.  Alternately, I would have a Niad who had powers over a river or stream in area.  The heirs could also receive some derivate powers.

    When using a female soveriegn I would have champion from my kingdom from a tournament.  Or a prince from a neigboring kingdom who championed a cause or quest for me.  Heirs receive combined kingdom.

    I would also like to see some sort of advantage/disadvantage modifier's for staying single.  With the possibility of the modifier's being either all positive/all negative or a combination and/or no modifier.  More time for magic research, general studies, questing, warfare, exploring, etc.  Negative modifiers being loss of prestige, morale loss, etc.

    There should also be an adoption feature which would allow you to adopt young champions, heros, etc. into your royal house.  This might be good for single soveriegn or married soveriegn who produce no heirs.

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Quoting Solam, reply 5
you can always end up with a Confessor wife... 

 

I agree with the OP, great idea
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But that would be Game over, because you can't make your own decisions anymore...

Reply #12 Top

Great idea.

I would also like to see some sort of advantage/disadvantage modifier's for staying single. With the possibility of the modifier's being either all positive/all negative or a combination and/or no modifier. More time for magic research, general studies, questing, warfare, exploring, etc. Negative modifiers being loss of prestige, morale loss, etc.
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Also a very good idea but i would suggest to broaden it to more marriage forms including amourous quests and bastard children that can result, and polygamy/polyandry with their own modifiers to consider.

And a divorce mechanic.

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could always marry a dragon and have half dragon childern

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could always marry a dragon and have half dragon childern
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at the cost of [..........................]

 

You need choice. You shouldn't have a single optimal decision to take.

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Quoting psychoak, reply 9
Sheesh, so now I'm an a-sexual slug...
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Slugs are hermaphrodites, not asexual. Unless they have a bad encounter and someone has to chew off a penis to get disentangled, at which point the modified slug is effectively female. (Yes, sometimes an intact slug half-neuters itself rather than its partner.)

There should also be an adoption feature which would allow you to adopt young champions, heros, etc. into your royal house. This might be good for single soveriegn or married soveriegn who produce no heirs.
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Not holding my breath to see it in the game, but the idea is excellent. Adopting an heir might even be good/necessary for a sovereign whose spawn are all useless or troublemakers.

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Well id imagine it would have to be humanoid creatures only inorder to fit the game engine, so maybe dragons, slugs, and my ten armed troll suggestion are perhaps a little too extreme... although awesome.

But maybe things like normal 2 armed trolls(im not obsessed!) so your kid comes out green and ugly, with some regeneration and extra strength.

Also maybe humanoid demons or celestials, or their Elemental lore equivelents.  Or maybe just a normal person with a special rare trait. 

Obviously they would have to be rare, it couldnt be somthing you could plan on getting from the start of the game, just somthing that you could stumble on.

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could always marry a dragon and have half dragon childern
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It remembers me a quest in King's Bounty: the Legend ....

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Slugs are hermaphrodites, not asexual. Unless they have a bad encounter and someone has to chew off a penis to get disentangled, at which point the modified slug is effectively female. (Yes, sometimes an intact slug half-neuters itself rather than its partner.)
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Hmm...

 

Nope, no improvement.  I'd still have to kill myself.  Although it's nice to know slugs are "chivalrous" in their treatment of genetilia...

Reply #19 Top

Possibilities include Fey (Spiritual Being/Part Spirit), Daemon, Half-Troll, Half Dragon (or someone w/ draconic blood), an Eldrich Abomination (perhaps if incidentally taking human form ... the result is, in effect, a massive mutation spell (of random traits and races) as well as a high chance of having natural channeling ability), and perhaps the Physical Manifestation of a Titan's shadow (known as a Titanite?).

speaking of half-dragons ... I prefer not to like our contemporary dragons with tranformational powers, so instead I prefer to think that long ago dragons (or whatever dragons evolved from) had the ability to take the shape of humans, and occasionally interbred with humans for whatever reason. The resulting offspring at first retained some transformational ability, although they have since long been locked in form (due to loss of that ability) and true dragons have as well. So although Dragons and Humans no longer have the ability to cross-copulate due to physiologiacl differences (and lack of transformation) ... the only available outlet are the humanoid "sub-race" of dragons known as half-dragons.

Half Dragons are quite diverse, and range from DragonMen to LizardMen to people that look almost human with a slight scaly glimmer, or a slitted eye. Meaning that some Half-Dragon kin have long flowing hair, and an almost skin of scale origin ... but looks almost like skin. And others are DragonPeople with thick scales on their outer covering, wings, horns, and then softer scales in the more sensitive regions .... while others lack the horns, wings, and dragon's breath and instead resemble more-like Lizardmen.

Those closest to Human physiology, I would imagine tend to have less strength and constitition and more dexterity and charisma, as well an increased aptitude for magic when possible (The Edars, of course, have powerful magic, however Dragonmen are at a particular gentic cross-roads where magic is harder rather than easier).

Therefore the presence of Draconic blood has a vast variety ... with the more human-like ones being possibly found in a large city, or with a roaming band of adventurers, the Lizardmen and the Dragonmen tend to stick with their own, living in somewhat isolated tribes (especially due to the cataclysm, but even after the rebirth tended to be more isolationist, yet slightly social). Those of the Lizardmen that develop winged traits tend to go in search to join a dragonman clan, and those that lack severe reptilian features tend to migrate to the human cities, or go off travelling with the next party that comes into town.

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Long live the God King! Descendent of Titans!

 

But ya racial bonus to make up for no diplo bonus.