20 legitimacy after heir with strong claim ascends the throne?!

[Lynx190]

So I just started an Adal game, 3 years in my king dies and my legitimacy plummets to 20 as if I had a dynasty change, even though I didn't. This is completely devastating as I can barely see any countries so I can't spam royal marriages to get it back up. What gives? Is something just screwed up with the history files for my starting heir?

Doesn't even seem to be a console command to raise legitimacy, so looks like I'm going to have to edit the savegame to fix this (assuming it's a bug).

EDIT: Well, I found it when I went to edit the save... the dynasty name is spelled 1 letter differently between the starting king and the heir so it became an automatic dynasty change regardless of heir claim.

 

[unmerged(540854)]

seems like an easy fix, did you report it in the bug section? Might be so minor they take it with them in 5.2

 

[Lynx190]

Searched the bug forum and it looks like it was already reported and fixed for 5.2, I'm still playing 5.1.

At the start I just wasn't sure if there was some special condition that caused me to lose all that legitimacy, which is why I made the thread here instead.

 

[ryu2999]

Looking at the OP's edit is it not a change of dynasty just with a similar name?

 

[unmerged(540854)]

Unlikely with the historical heir

 

[ryu2999]

Oh right, yes if he is playing with historical leaders selected then it probably is a typo and therefore a bug.

 

[Lynx190]

Yeah, the specific thread is here http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum...s-changing-the-dynasty-if-they-become-monarch

At first I wasn't sure I'd even find anything, since when I tried searching for Adal strategy threads before starting it seemed like no one played Adal... all I got were Ethiopia strategy threads.