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Ah, true... Raline is the sovereign's spouse. They do appear as baby cards too.

I apologize if this was posted already, and not sure if this is a bug or some sort of an inside joke, but my large map custom kingdom/custom sovereign campaign has 11 instances of the NPC Raline the Weaver. All of them are merchants, and all have essence (ranging from 1 to 27 at the time of hire). They all look and dress differently though. I am, of course, not sure if I collected them all so far. I don't recall seeing any other NPC doubles in this play-through. It can kind of

If you click on such a unit wild improvement, it says it's not linked to any town if it's too far from anything... that's when you can't train any. Build a town nearby... I think that fixes it.

I've noticed that after a mounted archer shoots, the horse/wolf does an animation moving its head up then from side to side... It seems, this animation is factored in as part of the shooting animation, which stops you from other actions... Edit: same goes for casting from horseback, I think...