Well, she's French
Ainés I of Aquitaine. Brave. Gregarious. And homosexual. All of which is cool, but kinda scuppers my plans. I feel an assassination coming on.
"Homosexual" should have more events surrounding other gay courtiers or nobles
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Ainés I of Aquitaine. Brave. Gregarious. And homosexual. All of which is cool, but kinda scuppers my plans. I feel an assassination coming on.
Well, she's French
Ainés I of Aquitaine. Brave. Gregarious. And homosexual. All of which is cool, but kinda scuppers my plans. I feel an assassination coming on.
Aww...if she'd appeared in my court, I'd give her a duchy. xD
Well, she's French
Ainés I of Aquitaine. Brave. Gregarious. And homosexual. All of which is cool, but kinda scuppers my plans. I feel an assassination coming on.
I've found homosexual characters produce offspring at practically the same rate as straight ones. unless they are homosexual AND celibate...
She's only 12, plenty of time for her to turn celibate as well. Mind you, I'm 60 myself and not exactly a catch. Wouldn't blame her if she did.
But it may, and it probably almost always did. As an illustration, imagine if the situation were reversed, and a life of celibacy/homosexuality was demanded from heterosexuals in order to placate the wider community. It's doubtful many would find such a life tolerable. Ditto for gay people, in the real world.
I find giving the player the option to be the best solution. Why not let liberty reign? Some seem to prefer force-feeding others their beliefs though, and denying everyone else the opportunity to do something they're apparently too terrified to admit exists. Many other video game companies now offer equality in their games, to reflect the diversity that exists in the real world, including among gamers. The sky has yet to cave in. Players have found this magical thing where - get this - they simply don't have to do anything they'd rather not. Crazy.
One interesting source is Penitentials... religious records detailing the penances given for various actual case-histories of sinners. Between 4% and 8% of typical Penitential compilations are for homosexual 'sins', and the usual corrective is a long period of penance. So it seems that male homosexuality was neither particularly rare, nor punished particularly severely. Later on, in the late 13th-century, church attitudes hardened somewhat, and the punishments tended to become more severe.
http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/4696
(PS: The book mentioned appears quite fascinating, I may fork out the cash [ugh... academic book prices] and get me a copy.)
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You can always try looking at the source for the Wikipedia chart if you don't trust it, it's the entire point of Wikipedia's citation policy. The Pew Research Center is a reputable organisation who specialise in collecting data like this.
Well, she's French
Ainés I of Aquitaine. Brave. Gregarious. And homosexual. All of which is cool, but kinda scuppers my plans. I feel an assassination coming on.
It doesn't really. Fertility is rated as a percentage. Homosexuality reduces it slightly, but not to zero. It was a -15% to fertility last time I checked.
If she gets other anti-fertility traits you might want to off her, but if she's Duchess of Aquitane in her own right I'd at least let her make it to 20-25 and see if you can get her land in your dynasty.
Nick
In the context of this thread that sounds so... erm... amusing.
If only they could get Stephen Fry to come up with a few special events.
I had a 46 year old ruler with 7 kids decide he was gay at a tournament. The same character inexplicably went from Brave to Craven in two separate events while personally leading troops in a successful rebellion to overthrow his king.
None of these events really made sense to me in context of his life. I personally just find many of the event driven traits to be arbitrary and lack context.
None of these events really made sense to me in context of his life. I personally just find many of the event driven traits to be arbitrary and lack context.
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