[2.5.2] Broken Muslim bastard inheritance behavior

[StarSword]

Playing Sunni Kurds. I landed a bastard son of a vassal's vassal marzopan (count) and made him one of my satraps (dukes), and due to open succession he became the heir to his father's throne. No, he wasn't legitimized, and yes his father had multiple adult male sons.

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[StarSword]

I went back a save and can confirm that Muslim bastards do properly create a new dynasty after having kids. Have not yet tried to repeat the experiment but I found a save with the bastard already landed. Load up the attached file and check the title history of the County of Al Mufraq, which is currently held by the Satrap of Oman, Najib Muslihiddin. Also discovered this isn't the first time it happened in my game, just the first time I noticed: Satrap Najib's father was an acknowledged bastard of Sheikh Muslihiddin Abbasid and inherited Al Mufraq from his biological father.

Clearly open succession isn't working properly with bastardy.

 

[kmh42]

I have the same problem right now. My first sone is a bastard and he wasn't legitimized. He has no land but I recently switched from Irish, Chatolic and Tanistry to Persian, Sunni and Open succession.
Here is the save:
https://cloudius.meduniwien.ac.at/index.php/s/WE9lbidWLvSimNc

 

[Kumicho]

Same here. Acknowledged Bastard, suddenly he's my heir with a "game over" warning. On the 2.6.1 patch.

 

[Fitzjacob]

Had the same issue during my pre Horse Lords, 1066 Abbasid run. Are you all sure that it's a bug and not a feature seeing as Open Succession is supposed to work differently. Maybe Muslim bastards are meant to be able to inherit on the same terms as other dynasty members, adding a little challenge and dissuading you from using seduction focus as an Iqta ruler. Four wives should be enough, no...?

Regardless, a dev response as to whether or not this is intentional would be appreciated.

 

[StarSword]

Had the same issue during my pre Horse Lords, 1066 Abbasid run. Are you all sure that it's a bug and not a feature seeing as Open Succession is supposed to work differently. Maybe Muslim bastards are meant to be able to inherit on the same terms as other dynasty members, adding a little challenge and dissuading you from using seduction focus as an Iqta ruler. Four wives should be enough, no...?

Regardless, a dev response as to whether or not this is intentional would be appreciated.

Well, at least from a historicity standpoint, according to some quickie googling, the majority Islamic scholarly opinion is that illegitimate children cannot inherit from their father (because they "belong" to their mother's family). I'm really thinking this is a bug, not a feature.