I want to make my dynasty matriarchal!!!

[Bölüm Sonu Patronu]

I create a new female ruler, but no matter what happens, my son become heir. what is the solution for this or is there a mod?

[Emperor2000]

Originally posted by Encharmion:

I create a new female ruler, but no matter what happens, my son become heir. what is the solution for this or is there a mod?

The solution would to reform your Faith to be female-dominated, but you should be warned, the game only supports male-dominated faiths, because all other faiths(Equal or Female-dominated), will cause the AI to marry their Direct Heir into another Dynasty.

[Genghis San]

Without reforming your faith you could always pray for a daughter and meanwhile disinherit your sons, murder them, imprison them and execute them or have them starve in your dungeon, have them become monks or sending them as a lone knight without commander towards a hostile army. Have them meet peers at another court, every now and then they will meet with an 'unfortunate' accident.

[SDxEair]

You can always just use the gender equality game rule(When starting your game) and set it to what you want. Though that will change it for everyone. Otherwise you need to switch to, create, or reform a faith that is female dominated.

[Bölüm Sonu Patronu]

Originally posted by Genghis San:

Without reforming your faith you could always pray for a daughter and meanwhile disinherit your sons, murder them, imprison them and execute them or have them starve in your dungeon, have them become monks or sending them as a lone knight without commander towards a hostile army. Have them meet peers at another court, every now and then they will meet with an 'unfortunate' accident.

is there any mode where i can choose my heir?

[Genghis San]

yes there is but then you need Absolute (level 4) Crown Authority and I rarely get to that point without lots of rebellions. Also if you want your heir to inherit everything you own, even with level 4 authority you also need Primogeniture, Ultimogeniture or House Seniority (or just one heir :-) )

[Yen Lo Wang]

Have you checked out the 'Medieval Matriarchs' mod? I used it for an Amazonian campaign I did a while back and it was recently updated.

[AmesNFire]

Originally posted by Yen Lo Wang:

Have you checked out the 'Medieval Matriarchs' mod? I used it for an Amazonian campaign I did a while back and it was recently updated.

By the same person who made Tenets to Doctrines? Interesting and likely decent quality then, hmm...

[damon0425]

Hi, I have 1500 hours into this game and I have played with several female rulers. The best and easiest way to allow for female heirs is to select Nubian culture which will then follow equal confederate partition which means if your eldest child is a female she will be your heir. Once you have enough prestige and crown authority you can change your succession law to female preferred so you do not have to worry about your first born being a male. Once you have a Duchy title, and you are the culture head, you can hybridize your culture with the culture you actually wanted to play as. This will allow you to keep the Nubian traditions that allow for equal or female preferred succession. Keep in mind, your faith may prevent you from granting titles to female characters so if you want to be able to do that you will either need to select a faith that already has equal or female law or you will need to capture 3 holy sites of your faith to be able to reform it and then change the gender law. Conversely, you can also start with your preferred culture and simply select a start location near the Nubians and capture one of their provinces and begin promoting cultural acceptance to be able to hybridize with them.

[Karsh]

Originally posted by Genghis San:

yes there is but then you need Absolute (level 4) Crown Authority and I rarely get to that point without lots of rebellions. Also if you want your heir to inherit everything you own, even with level 4 authority you also need Primogeniture, Ultimogeniture or House Seniority (or just one heir :-) )

i never get rebellions from it XD , jsut have a royal court at max grandeur , and siblings as vassels most of the times it's easy to keep rank 4 crown authority

[vortex_13]

Originally posted by Emperor2000:

Originally posted by Encharmion:

I create a new female ruler, but no matter what happens, my son become heir. what is the solution for this or is there a mod?

The solution would to reform your Faith to be female-dominated, but you should be warned, the game only supports male-dominated faiths, because all other faiths(Equal or Female-dominated), will cause the AI to marry their Direct Heir into another Dynasty.

That's not true. Female dominated faiths default marriages are matriarchal.

[Talist]

If you want female children to inherit, there's four ways that I know of (in vanilla, anyway).

A) Set the game rule "gender laws" to either equal or inverted. Equal will disable achievements. This will influence everyone, not just your dynasty.

B) Convert to a religion with equal or female dominated gender laws. Most religions, especially around Europe and the Middle East, start being male dominated. You can create your own faith, or play as one of the ones that isn't male dominated (like some of the African religions or Catharism, the Christian heresy, I believe). You can create an offshoot of Catholicism that has the "rite" tenet so that the rest of the Catholic world isn't hostile to you. If you're making a custom character, you can pick what religion the custom character starts as, but be warned that being a hostile religion to your neighbors will cause a lot of strife.

C) Play a culture with female inheritance. It's possible to add the tradition of equal inheritance to most cultures (with enough prestige). Some cultures, like those of Nubian descent, also allow the warrior queens or matriarchal traditions. If you're creating a custom character, you can set your character's culture to be Nubian, then convert wherever you're playing in. When you set your steward to convert culture, it converts it to your culture, not your steward's culture.

D) Manipulate succession directly. Most places in the game start with "male preferred" succession. This means if you kill, disinherit, or just not have any male children, female children will inherit by default. You can also designate an heir if you have absolute crown authority, but that isn't unlocked until late game. Finally, you can add elective succession to your titles (any elective form will do), then vote for a female heir. Be warned that if you're in a male dominated religion, your vassals aren't likely to vote for a female heir, but with hooks, dread, and opinion, you can get around that. Or manipulate the titles such that you're the only elector.

[Emperor2000]

Originally posted by vortex_13:

Originally posted by Emperor2000:

The solution would to reform your Faith to be female-dominated, but you should be warned, the game only supports male-dominated faiths, because all other faiths(Equal or Female-dominated), will cause the AI to marry their Direct Heir into another Dynasty.

That's not true. Female dominated faiths default marriages are matriarchal.

Not, if they go wandering and females even in female-dominated faiths are still more likely to go wandering and by the way, the default is only for the Player and not for the AI.

[Bölüm Sonu Patronu]

Originally posted by Talist:

If you want female children to inherit, there's four ways that I know of (in vanilla, anyway).

A) Set the game rule "gender laws" to either equal or inverted. Equal will disable achievements. This will influence everyone, not just your dynasty.

B) Convert to a religion with equal or female dominated gender laws. Most religions, especially around Europe and the Middle East, start being male dominated. You can create your own faith, or play as one of the ones that isn't male dominated (like some of the African religions or Catharism, the Christian heresy, I believe). You can create an offshoot of Catholicism that has the "rite" tenet so that the rest of the Catholic world isn't hostile to you. If you're making a custom character, you can pick what religion the custom character starts as, but be warned that being a hostile religion to your neighbors will cause a lot of strife.

C) Play a culture with female inheritance. It's possible to add the tradition of equal inheritance to most cultures (with enough prestige). Some cultures, like those of Nubian descent, also allow the warrior queens or matriarchal traditions. If you're creating a custom character, you can set your character's culture to be Nubian, then convert wherever you're playing in. When you set your steward to convert culture, it converts it to your culture, not your steward's culture.

D) Manipulate succession directly. Most places in the game start with "male preferred" succession. This means if you kill, disinherit, or just not have any male children, female children will inherit by default. You can also designate an heir if you have absolute crown authority, but that isn't unlocked until late game. Finally, you can add elective succession to your titles (any elective form will do), then vote for a female heir. Be warned that if you're in a male dominated religion, your vassals aren't likely to vote for a female heir, but with hooks, dread, and opinion, you can get around that. Or manipulate the titles such that you're the only elector.

Thanks a lot <3

[Kalisa]

i usually dont have any trouble with my dynasty keeping titles in a female only game, the ai seems fine when dealing with not marrying primary heirs in the wrong marrage type, about 50% of my games i do a matriarch run, sometimes heavily modded, sometimes not, and usually by the end most of the realms i set up through my playstyle are still standing with my dynasty.
the ai is still not perfect and does make mistakes, the game does not handle female dominated as well as it should but its certainly playable.

[dwarfpcfan]

Start as Daurama Daura in the 867 starting date "Great Adventurers". She has a scripted event that pops automatically within a week of start where you decide your succession laws. You automatically have the option to be female only succession with the decision then making your sister your heir until you give birth to a daughter.