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Please be kind and constructive when you let us know how the group can be better.

Maybe a collaboration thread for each family? Just so everyone can work over how the dynamic would be. :)

Oh yes, I'm working on getting to that ^~^

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Yes. I will put up an employee claim topic soon, which will include guards and knights.

What if there was a claim for bastards of the royals? That could make more women be "royal" enough to be knights and personal guards. Besides, bastards would make things more interesting at court or in the rebellion.

The only bad thing about bastards is that it forces the characters to have cheated and had a mistress. Now personally, I dont mind at all! I love having bastards running around in medieval rps. It's just how those times were. Men in power liked to have their way with more than their betroyed. It was just a thing. But not everyone will be okay with it.

So maybe we can figure out which rpers are good with having some bastards, then put some spots for claims for those?

My, I think she means people who are all right with their characters having illegitimate children.

Haha, wow...yeah, I never thought about how my wording coulda let lead to miscommunication. I dudnt mean 'good at having them'. Gee is totally correct. I meant we should figure out who is Okay with having their royals having had bastards.

(The royals don't have to have cheated, it could be a past lover, since many princes did take lovers before wives) I honestly don't have much to go on except (a tv show) though, and (the male) had a baby with (the lover) before he got married to (the female) , so he never cheated, and always loved (the female) pretty much. (I don't want to spoil it if anyone watched the show so yeah lol)

KC, you're perfectly fine :D. Id worded it in a way that coulda lead to this haha. So it's my bad, really.

Kendall, youre completely correct, it coulda been from a previous relationship, but some people may not have made way for that in their characters' history, ya know? I shouda phrased things better than I had. Pretty much, I think if someone wants to make a bastard (be it from a mistress, a previous lover or anything else) the royal parent of the bastard should have to approve of it since it is using their character. Otherwise wedbe forcing history into someone's character they may not want. But! If they are okay with it, then be borthith a bastard we have! :D. But this is just what I think. Im not a mod or anything, so no real authority or decision making capablity haha.

I believe I have stated this somewhere before. I am alright with one or two bastards running about, but it is ultimately up to the people that have the king of either household, and I believe both have said no.

Er, if a queen were to ever have an affair with another man, she'd be beheaded on the spot. If it were before she was married, she'd never have married a royal because of the scandal. There'd be no confirmation the child she had after was the son/daughter of the king. Women that marry kings must always be virgins.

So I'll have to say no to the illegitimate children of queens.

Rose, I do totally agree with you in that if a queen cheated on her husband and it was discovered, she almost defiantly would be beheaded for it. But...I may have to argue against the latter--at least slightly. Yes, in many cases, when a woman has premarital sex, it 'ruins' them, making them disgraceful in the eyes of most noblemen/women, thus unlikely to marry high. However, it's not unheard of for someone in a higher spot of power to marry someone who's had sex, if for instance, she'd been married, but her husband passed away. She'd still be 'used goods', and thus not as high of value to most, making it unlikely someone would want her... So I personally think if there's a good reason why the woman is not a virgin, than it's debatable on if she could marry a royal. My argument comes from what tiny bit of The White Queen I've seen. She had kids, and the crown prince married her :). But, tis' your call!

I see what you're getting that, and I forgot about the possibility of being married once before. However, that's still different than having illegitimate children. If she'd had children with her husband who later died and then she remarried, those children would just be her new husband's step-children.

And sure, it's not unheard of if a lady is not a virgin to marry a royal (especially if the royal already loves the girl and they keep it a secret, or if the union is one made by the king and cannot be overruled), but those cases are so rare I'd prefer not to have to deal with them unless they maybe happen in rp.

XD I wasnt trying to support the illegitimate cuild theory, more the possiblity a woman could have been with another man intamately prior to being married to a royal.

I hear ya; I was thinking that to after I wrote the comment. Sure it could happen, but god the seiries of events thatd have to happen to make it happen since it's so rare are a hassle amd a half. In other words, I agree with it all :).

Yep. Alrighty, cool ^~^