Historical Question Clan makeup / blood

[NexusSix]

Ok guys , question for some of you Sengoku buffs.

In a Clan were all the people generally of the same bloodline somewhere along the line or did people who joined the clans, like other smaller clans or honored warriors / wives become part of the clan and take on the clan name ?

I ask this because I am trying to work out if the pre-spawned wife I had is my sister/ cousin OR if she just holds the Clan ( Family ? or is this to loser comparison ? ) name as in a step mothers daughter taking your fathers name as a modern comaprison.

Seems to be quite a bit of inbreeding in game, trying to work out if historically this is about right or if its a minor bug.

 

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I think that as long as you can't connect two characters via parents/siblings, they're not related to any degree of genetic significance.

If your pre-spawned wife has no parents or siblings, she is either a very distant cousin, or a individual who got the clan name bestowed upon her as an honor (not close enough in the game genetics for the game to penalize you).

For story reasons, just assume your liege married a commoner and gave her the clan name to save face.

 

[Drakken]

In a Clan were all the people generally of the same bloodline somewhere along the line or did people who joined the clans, like other smaller clans or honored warriors / wives become part of the clan and take on the clan name ?

Usually, clans had three classifications of vassals: shimpan, which were kinsmen, family members or descendants of collateral lines; fudai, which have been hereditary vassals from generation to generation; and tozama, which were newly joined vassals or had been vassals for only one or two generations.

Not all members of a vassal band were kinsmen, of course. However, they did intermary.