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So, I started as lowborn county tier Prince-Bishop. Since dynasty is locked behind a decision, I had to went up ranks first, while having a few out of wedlock kids, to actually continue my lineage. Here is the thing - almost nothing with that mechanic works.

1. As soon as a woman becomes pregnant, and I declare that child is mine, nothing more happens. No Adulterer or Fornicator traits. No Incestous trait too, neither for me nor the child's mother. No loss of opinion from clergy. Nothing. The only way for me to get the Fornicator is to NOT announce that it is my child during pregnancy, but rather wait for secret to be exposed later.

2. My Cardinal character can get married. WTF? My Rite clearly forbids Clerical marriage, yet I can just get married

3. I can get married regardless of Consaguinity. My daughter was just born and I can just betroh her. Even tho my faith has Avunculate Marriage. I can do it even after I Legitimize her. I can literally say "hey, I am confirming by the law that this is my daughter", and then proceed to immediately marry her.

Should it really work this way? Or is this all one giant bug?

Can't really say if it is always scanlation team's doing (I encountered one scan group that openly admitted doing this), or author themself, but I hate it. Yes, there can be some more suggestive poses, and sometimes it might be implied that the characters have sex, but from can be still discerned, they are always drawn clothed, and the censorship really is just cleavage or legs shots.

Source for this particual screen is "I’m Stuck on the Same Day for a Thousand Years".

R5: Recently I noticed that both Sayyid and Golden Lineage traits are transferred only through male descendants, so it is impossible to to "marry" them into one character of my Dynasty, which greatly annoyed me. So, I decided to start a run dedicated solely to collect all imaginable inheritable traits, especialy the aforementioned two. Went from being (Norse) french vassal, conquering Persia, becoming Adventurer, then Nomad and Greatest Khan, conquering Byzantine lands. For some reason Byzantines really sucked this time, even briefly becoming part of HRE before my Mongols came. Other traits are nice bonuses collected along the way, tho I am unsure why my children still have Way of the Nomad trait, if the Khanate was reformed way before they were born. And also becoming Blademaster is now suprisingly easy if you have Blademaster Acolade.

Fun fact, when I restored the Roman Empire, it didn't completely destroy the already reformed Khaganate Hegemony, but pushed it to be De Jure of only two Empire titles far East. So now there are three Hegemonies on the map.

So, the latest update. Made every education trait line to have Domain Limit, but removed them from Stewardship. While I do understand the intent, I believe the implementaion is just bad, and in consequence the Martial line is the only one that matters.

Intrigue gives Agent acceotance and Scheme potential, but because schemes now relay heavily on recruited agents, it doesn't really matter.

Diplomacy gives +25 vassalization acceptance, but having in mind that there are multiple personality traits that lower it by 20 each, so the Diplomacy actuall usefulness is negligible. And warscore from hostages? Considering how incredibly faster Martial rulers can finish wars, this does nothing.

Stewardship increases... just taxes. That is honestly an awful deal, because your vassals won't have any money to actually develop their domains, especially if combined with increases from other perks. And by late game you'll be swimming in money anyways.

Learning is somewhat good, as it gives development, but ony 0.1? Doesn't seem like much either.

And then we have Martial. 50% better siege weapons. 20% faster army movement. Gaining Commander traits. And even separate line of Prowess-related traits available only for children that have Martial focus (after you have Knighood).

Earlier you would at least consider Stewardship exactly because of the Domain Limit, but now? The advantages of Martial lifestyle are so big that it easily declasses all other lines. And I don't mean for minmaxing, but every average player after a few games will notice that Martial just leads to better results and others aren't worth trying. I feel like all other lines would have to get significantly boosted to match it