There are no records of him being strictly hetero either, but it's beside the point. He's not scripted to be gay in the files. It's just random. If you want to change this go into the Norse character file and look for 'fairhair' and the second result will be his character entry, under traits type "sexuality = heterosexual" without quotation marks.
Tested it five more times.
"King Haraldr sent his men after a maiden by the name of Gyða, the daughter of king Eiríkr of Horðaland; she was being raised by a wealthy farmer in Valdres and he desired her as his concubine, for she was beautiful and of a great mind."
Where does it say he wasn't bisexual? Or do you not know what "strictly" means? Or even what "it's beside the point" means?
Where does it say he liked both women and men? We know he liked girls (Hrafnsmál tells us he had a lot of concubines from all over Norway) and we know there is no writings upon this earth that says he was even remotely attracted to men sexually. All evidence we have points towards him being straight and anything else is pure speculation.
The sagas are written long after his death, it's mostly just fiction. If he was real, who is to say he wasn't bisexual? No one can know.
If it's "mostly just fiction", why even have him in the game? Paradox uses these old "fictious" sagas to portray northern Europe in their games, so why is it suddenly so hard to just make a person who we have several texts describe as being attracted to women straight? And this isn't even some random nobody, it's a person who many Norwegians, including myself, view as an important character to our history and it is my belief that Paradox should at least try to portray him accurately when you take all of this into account.
Which is why his and other's sexuality should be randomly determined each game, not by each new checksum. The problem here isn't that Fairhair was homosexual in one random playthough, but is in each playthough as of this checksum.
Cool, then they should make him an unremarkable petty-king in Western Norway. His lineage should also end with his son Eirikr and grandson Haraldr. Snorri is a very special storyteller according to modern interpretations.
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All random characters in CK3 will most likely me straight (unless you change the sexuality distribution game rule from the default setting). So straight being the most likely out come for Harald Fairhair is already modeled by the game. Thus unless there is evidence to indicate he was more likely to straight than random chance would suggest, it should be left to random chance. So if a historical figure has female lovers, for example, I think that is good enough indication. And reading the comments it sounds like there is evidence for this (and if true, I'd support him being defined to always be straight. And the fact sagas aren't the most accurate is fine by me, as that's all we got to go on anyways). But this is still evidence for being straight above just the fact that most people are straight (as again that fact is already handled by the game).
It's randomly assigned. The two times I played him yesterday, he was straight for me.
My headcanon says that Harald Fairhair was actually a super intelligent T-Rex who'd been frozen in a glacier for millions of years, so I support this line of reasoning.
Reproduction doesn’t equal sexuality or parenting. It takes once a year to get a wife pregnant (even not necessarily through sexual intercourse; practices from animal husbandry are applicable to humans too). As a noble you also easily get access to external care for your breed.
I wish I had as much time as you do. Good for you, boyo.My headcanon says that Harald Fairhair was actually a super intelligent T-Rex who'd been frozen in a glacier for millions of years, so I support this line of reasoning.
Prove he wasn't.
