Do portraits influence who your characters marry?

[Revshawn]

Beauty is a social construct, didn't you know?
Saying or implying otherwise is discrimination.

Are you sure about that?

 

[tuareg109]

Are you sure about that?

Filthy bigot, of course I'm sure about that.
/sarcasm/, in case you didn't catch it in that first post. :/

 

[Sopot]

Beauty is relative my friends.

Good point, my cousins are always hotties.

 

[Revshawn]

Filthy bigot, of course I'm sure about that.
/sarcasm/, in case you didn't catch it in that first post. :/

Yeah. Sarcasm is tough to detect on the internet. xD I'm joking anyway! Calm down now.

 

[ZechsMerquise73]

This is why I married my sister's daughter. Well, that and inheriting Castille, Galatia, and Leone in one go.

 

[tuareg109]

Good point, my cousins are always hotties.

I wholeheartedly agree, your cousins are hotties!

Yeah. Sarcasm is tough to detect on the internet. xD I'm joking anyway! Calm down now.

I know bruv :3

 

[deadhand13]

I always go by whether she has huge... tracts of land!

 

[ZechsMerquise73]

^Something Al from Quantum Leap would say.


/nerd

 

[Hvymtlboy]

I'm inclined to believe that most women who are so delusional as to their appearance that they would dye their hair, also have hardwood or tile instead of carpet.

I'd be a little concerned about the mildew build-up in the grout.

 

[unmerged(462833)]

In my actual game in Byzantine I've made a marriage with a daugther of one of Khans' daughter from Golden Horde. My daugthers looks normally, but my son really looks like his Mongol grandfathers
More fun I had when I reloaded my muslim game after buying African portraits My ruler had wives from Georgia, Abisynnia, Persia and Anatolia (Greek one) - trust me, when I saw my band of heirs and how they looked like...

 

[Lemony Lime]

Oh yeah, I pretty much always do that. haha

 

[generalolaf]

So I was playing earlier and my heir had finally come of age, there werent any high ranking brides so I decided to marry him to a young high stewardship genius, eventually I found a 17 year old genius with 29 stewardship... however I noticed from her portrait that she was a portly greek woman... the next best candidate was a 16 year old genius with 24 stewardship, who was german and had a "pretty" portrait.

I married my heir to the german. It wasnt till afterwards it hit me that I married the inferior wife (IN A VIDEO GAME) simply because she had a better looking portrait.

has anyone else caught themselves doing ridiculous things like this?

I was absolutely stoked (sorry, New Zealand slang term) when the AI did this for my grandson - even though the wife was stewardship 7 where to maintain my demesne at its current size she probably needed to be more than twice that

 

[RustyTurban]

I had this dilemma yesterday. I needed Stewardship thanks to being 10/6 over my desmesne limit. The first choice was the princess of England, a fat, ugly dwarf with 17 stewardship. Or the princess of France who was as good looking as you find in this game but with 0 stewardship.

My desmesne can get over it. Its only a few robbers and thieves.

 

[Alexandre_007]

i always try to marry the most gorgeous one with the best stats. if that is not possible, i go for the hottest one ^^ if none pleases me, then stats.

 

[tuareg109]

I'd be a little concerned about the mildew build-up in the grout.

Get to mopping

stoked (sorry, New Zealand slang term)

No worries, we use "stoked" in the U.S. too.

 

[Sopot]

I wholeheartedly agree, your cousins are hotties!

Yeah, you should see my daughter!
http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/885220845265126201/2813CFCA68EC972E067DD99FDA22C7A103758B90/

 

[NewbieOne]

It does!

 

[ZechsMerquise73]

Next game, my family is only allowed to be gingers.

 

[MorlanV]

I seek out the mightiest and most hideous spouses that I can find.

"Steward! Scour the lands, and fetch me a stout husband, that we may breed!"

Beauty is relative my friends.

Ha ha ha ha ha.

 

[tuareg109]

Yeah, you should see my daughter!
http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/885220845265126201/2813CFCA68EC972E067DD99FDA22C7A103758B90/

Mmmm...sweetcheeks Agathe.

Next game, my family is only allowed to be gingers.

Uh-oh, first my brain switched the first "g" and the "n" in that last word; I see it so often!
As for your goal, I suppose it isn't too hard if you don't mind marrying low-skilled courtiers every once in a while.

And hey, on an unrelated note, what's the deal with the entire Anglo-Saxon royal family marrying Basque women and men? After a generation or two, all the descendant of Harold Godwinson have black hair, brown eyes, and that ugly, half-open mouth. You'd think they'd marry closer to home.