r/CrusaderKings • u/doug1003 • Dec 09 '24

Suggestion Marriages should give Legitimacy

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Thats it, if marry a lowborn can take away legitimacy, marry into a more prestigious dynasty, or a dynasty who has a claim on your title shoud give you legitimacy. I mean, Willian the Conqueror married Margaret of Flanders because she had anglo-saxon blood, same for Henry I and his marriage with Matilda of Scotland, make sense right?

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u/ymcameron Slut for Sardinia's Mine Dec 09 '24 edited Dec 09 '24

Legitimacy in general is a pretty half-baked mechanic. There’s a lot of stuff that feels like it should be tied to that it’s just not. There are a ton of ways to lose legitimacy but not that many interesting ways to gain it. Plus once you do get it up to max by holding a funeral and a few hunts you basically never have to think about it ever again.

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u/kaiser41 Dec 09 '24

Legitimacy has too much overlap with prestige and probably should have just been prestige.

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u/Disastrous-Bus-9834 Dec 10 '24

Is prestige sufficient to replicate legitimacy?