Best Bride

[Dr.Bane]

What is the best princess to marry ?
I heard a rumor that if you marry the undead girl you can later use something to transform her into a buetiful woman which thus pisses off the other undead. Is that true?

[Lцсᶖаᶇ º¹]

it's even more than that.

[Wraith_Magus]

Define what makes any one bride the "best".

Generally speaking, if you want achievements, you need to do all of them, anyway. They all have their own personal plots that touch on different themes, and like everyone else in this game, they're all two-dimensional jerks stuck on some narrow-minded strawman take of the world.

Generally speaking:
Ophelia (Undead) - Like Pinocchio, wants to be a real girl. (What, you weren't satisifed with a skeleton with lipstick smeared on the jawbone?!) she can wind up an imp robot, a human woman, or a vampire because she doesn't want to be mortal

Aida (Dwarf) - Hates her father, and that's literally the only thing she talks about, aside from inane metaphors that usually involve how large her boobs are. He hates her, and constantly tries to destroy her, but for some reason, you can try to keep them from killing each other even though there is nothing else in their personality at all. Your choices are basically whether to save or kill the king, with saving him generally getting you more faction rep

Lohannah (Elf) - The "pretty one", she's the only one who actually wants to be your bride, but if you let her do anything with any of the other races, fanatical elves blow it all up because everyone in this game is a South Park strawman minus the humor. She wants to stop you from growing genetically altered food, and if you let her, she'll get tried for murder and executed, allowing you to pick a different bride, lol

Camila (Lizard) - The lizard, and therefore, only sane one, she basically asks for help in handing down rulings as a judge with you gaining political favor from different factions for how she rules, because there's nothing at all a conflict of interest in that! She somehow rules on whether to negotiate with terrorists, in spite of being a JUDGE, not a COP, but the hostages die, and she can either step down after the controversy or not, but it doesn't matter because her plotline was over, anyway

None of these characters talk to you outside their rather short storylines, and they're all generally disposable characters that don't add much to the game except their faction rep. You can feed them to the demon for power and then pick one of the spares if you so choose for more plotlines in one playthrough.

That said, the best bride is probably Aida, since she has a path through her story that results in a net +3 faction rep, (+3 dwarf, +1 imp, +1 elf, -1 undead,) which is the most valuable thing you get from them. The best route through Camila is +2, Lohannah is +1, and Ophelia's best route is net neutral but involves letting her sleep with another man, or it's -2.

[Dr.Bane]

Well CRUD. I was going full blown conservative mode with my dissions and it seems 3 out of the 5 factions hate my guts lol. Not gunna lie the corpse one is more interesting then all the rest cus of the * I wanna be human * bla bla bla

[Wraith_Magus]

Remember that you also get a +3 with that race's faction for picking a bride, but if she dies for one reason or another, you lose that +3, but can pick another. You could try taking one you need, politically, then killing her off, and taking a different one you want to keep.

That said, "pure" anything in this game is going to lead to your empire crumbling, because what you need more than anything is to keep all the factions relatively balanced. In general, I tend to just pick council whatever choice is more popular, just because that results in a net +1 faction rep that slowly and sorta-evenly builds up a decent amount of positive rep, but I still have to make some deals with the devil to keep the undead from completely cratering in support because they hate everyone and everyone hates them. (Seriously, the undead in this game are some type of "religoius" that involves cheering for plagues of locusts, and saying that mercy is to be punished by the gods... it's a religion of pure irredeemable evil, not even trying to be sane.)