matrilineal

[Untolddead]

Maybe I'm just blind but I can't find where on birth the child is set to the mother's house on matrilineal marriages. I know it happens in game but I can only find matrilineal referenced in marriage and not birth anywhere. How does the child inherit the mother's dynasty instead of the fathers?

[zark16]

Every child born of a matrilineal marriage is of the mother's dynasty automatically.

[Untolddead]

Just now, zark16 said:

Every child born of a matrilineal marriage is of the mother's dynasty automatically.

So it's hard coded?

[mirrane0]

29 minutes ago, Untolddead said:

So it's hard coded?

that's what matrilineal marriage means, the children are from the mothers house.

[Untolddead]

Yes I know what it means. But there is a ton of stuff on birth about setting the child's house to the father. But basically none that I can find about setting it to the mother. That's what confuses me.

[joemann]

Maybe because the mother of the child is always known, whereas the real father is uncertain?

 

So in a matrilineal situation the house is certain. In the other situations more options exist which maybe explains why there is "a ton of stuff"

 

Just a thought.

[coleman1]

5 hours ago, Untolddead said:

Yes I know what it means. But there is a ton of stuff on birth about setting the child's house to the father. But basically none that I can find about setting it to the mother. That's what confuses me.

Do you mean for the on_birth_child = { } action handler?

I see many if statements based in dynasty, but not dynasty being assigned to anything.

I was under the impression the whole house and birth was coded in the engine but I might be wrong.

[mrinku]

It may not so much be "hard coded" as the default being the mother's dynasty. Despite patrilineal being the more common situation, cuckoldry and unwed births can always happen, so it makes some sense. Dynasty is often different to birth father, after all.

[Wily Rodent]

On 9/17/2021 at 1:21 AM, mrinku said:

It may not so much be "hard coded" as the default being the mother's dynasty. Despite patrilineal being the more common situation, cuckoldry and unwed births can always happen, so it makes some sense. Dynasty is often different to birth father, after all.

This is probably the answer. Children are born with their mother's dynasty (as in the engine already creates the child with the mother's dynasty) and then there is a whole lot of complicated code that determines the circumstances under which the dynasty is changed to the (presumed) father or an entirely new dynasty if it's an unwanted bastard.