No heir of dynasty

[Lidl Israel]

After i died my 2 daughters split the empire. 1 daughter is still the vassal of the other. My ruler has 2 children but they are not of dynasty. So i have no player heir. How to fix???

[delete]

I'm assuming you are now playing with one of your daughters as your main.

You made a huge mistake not marrying your daughters off matrilinealy (assuring that their children will be part of your dynasty).

If your daughter is still of child bearing age you need to get rid of her husband (kill or divorce), re-marry matrili...... to a lustful man and hope for more children.

You then need to disinherit (or kill) the 2 children who are first in line to inherit that are not of your dynasty. However if these children are female, you only need to have a son.

[oseppanen]

Yes, this mechanic screwed up my 500 year old dynasty. I reformed the church and made it more equal. Suddenly my player heir dies and my daughter who had married patrilineally takes the throne. She was a 60 year old drunk. I started to fix it with murders etc. but didn't have time because she was a drunk and died shortly thereafter. Well, I learned an important lesson. Now I pay much more attention...

Anyway, you can try to fix also by making your main title elective and voting for a dynasty member. the options available to you seem to depend on your culture. Tanistry elective is the best (only your dynasty can participate) but is not available for many cultures.

[Kvinden]

You can fix it simply by giving a duchy or a kingdom to a member of your dynasty, grant him or her independence and play this member.
It is less artifical than try to assassinate half of the characters in the game, marry again the empress with the hope to have a child and wait for 25 or 30 years the death of the wrong empress

The main character doesn't need to be the emperor, you'll build another better empire.

About the election, it is cheaper but more random than absolute crown authority and designate heir. This is another solution : If you have absolute crown authority the actual (wrong) empress can choose her heir in your dynasty. Problem solved

[Admod, the Equivocal]

Originally posted by Kvinden:

You can fix it simply by giving a duchy or a kingdom to a member of your dynasty, grant him or her independence and play this member.
It is less artifical than try to assassinate half of the characters in the game, marry again the empress with the hope to have a child and wait for 25 or 30 years the death of the wrong empress

The main character doesn't need to be the emperor, you'll build another better empire.

About the election, it is cheaper but more random than absolute crown authority and designate heir. This is another solution : If you have absolute crown authority the actual (wrong) empress can choose her heir in your dynasty. Problem solved

Sorry, but that concept is frowned upon. The player is the main character and the main character is all ways a member of the main branch of the family. Assassinating all your family to insure the main character stays a member of the main branch of the family is the only solution. Otherwise, Game Over. Unplayable.

[Kvinden]

Not at all. This is how the game works. I don't say to play a different dynasty but to play a dynasty member who is not the emperor. Unless you choose directly the kaiser or the basileus in the selection screen you never start the game as an emperor. You almost always start the game as a simple count and you expand your domain.
I didn't see a rule saying you must play the same character from 867 to 1453.

Besides, it takes a long time to assassinate several members of the dynasty, you can have only one scheme at a time and each takes months. So wether you play, as I said, a character who is a vassal, or the emperor of another dynasty because even if you assassinate the emperor you will not become the automatic heir. You must kill all the family one by one.

In the OP situation apparently the main character is the emperor and of the right dynasty. You don't even have to play another character if it is really a moral problem and a non written rule. As the heir is the only problem changing it solves the problem, no need to assassinate all the other members of the family, divorce the empress and hope she will have a child with the new husband. This is the twisted solution frowned about.

[Admod, the Equivocal]

There can be only ONE main character!!!