General Question about Family Tree

[pwnath]

So... just want to make sure this is intentional... I'm playing through as the Picts and over 100 turns into my playthrough. I had one my initial High King's daughter marry a prominant Other Noble. They remained in my family for many, many turns and even gave birth to children. The daughter died and now her husband, who married into the family 50-60 turns ago, is not listed on my family tree and under Other Nobles again so I'm no longer able to make him engage in faction politics myself (for the most part).

The kicker here is I figured that I would just adopt him or have another daughter marry him (Lucky guy), even this would have been one generation of family down on the other side of the tree. But when mousing over his character panel to adopt it is blacked out and noted that "I cannot perform this action with other family members"...

I have the same problem with this mains proginy, son's or daughters, even though they're listed in my family tree thanks to being mothered by my original High Kings daughter... when the men come of age they are listed under my family tree as well as Other Nobles.

I can sort of see that you may only be able to have complete control of the main line of family of the High King, but that's not the case in this game. You're able to control the High Kings brothers and uncles fully as long as they're still in the realm of the living. Methinks a bug may have appeared. If anyone has any insight please let me know.

P.S. Kudos to CA for adding in a zoom out option to the family tree... much needed with the amount of bastards my family seems to father.

[=(e)= Lemonater47]

Other nobles that your daughters marry don't stay in your family tree. As they can go off and marry someone else on their own accord. They are only half your family. The male character isn't your family so when his only tie to your family is broken he doesn't become a son.

He is still another noble. He's not yours and neither are his children.

[pwnath]

I appreciate the response.. but you'd think after decades he'd have remained as a part of my family. Or at least his children considering they're still very much blood related to the family tree.