Playing as duke of York, I married one of my two cousins, both of whom were the gavelkind heirs to my uncle, the duke of Lancaster. Unfortunately, my wife died before we had an heir, and her lands passed on to her older sister.
This sister luckily didn't have any kids either, but she was married to some unlanded nobody. Obviously, I set about plotting to kill the husband so that I could marry the surviving sister and pass the entire realm over to our heir. To my delight, my cousin was willing to participate in the plot to kill her husband, and with the help of a few other conspirators, we blew him up. Unfortunately, my involvement in the plot was uncovered, and now my cousin, the grieving widow, has a massive negative opinion modifier against me (-100 for 100 years). Is this really working as designed? I can see an argument for why it would be (she has to keep up appearances, so has to pretend to hate me for killing her husband), but it still seems a bit over the top to get such a massive hit to relations for being successful in a plot which she helped me carry out.
This sister luckily didn't have any kids either, but she was married to some unlanded nobody. Obviously, I set about plotting to kill the husband so that I could marry the surviving sister and pass the entire realm over to our heir. To my delight, my cousin was willing to participate in the plot to kill her husband, and with the help of a few other conspirators, we blew him up. Unfortunately, my involvement in the plot was uncovered, and now my cousin, the grieving widow, has a massive negative opinion modifier against me (-100 for 100 years). Is this really working as designed? I can see an argument for why it would be (she has to keep up appearances, so has to pretend to hate me for killing her husband), but it still seems a bit over the top to get such a massive hit to relations for being successful in a plot which she helped me carry out.