I love the idea here, but I find it jarring to have these excellent monarchs pop out of nowhere often changing the dynasty. These are entirely beneficial events, that exist for no reason other than little historical nods. Not like you get historical events to give you great male monarchs or anything.
For the ones that were named as an heir for lack of a male one couldn't these events be reworked to be like the Lux Stella events? Say between the years 1540-1600 if you're England and have no heir you could name a daughter named Elizabeth as an heir of your dynasty, albeit for a prestige hit and legitimacy hit and giving a weak to moderate claim for that heir. Or alternatively get an advisor/prestige/relations bonus for keeping her in court or marrying her off.
This would depict the difficulties and reluctance in having a queen on the throne as almost all the famous ones at this time were attended by succession crises and instability. This pretty much covers the ones like Elizabeth, Maria Theresa or Isabella.
Then for the ones that act as a regent like Margaret de Anjou or Catherine de Medici these could be potentially powerful regency councils like Janos Hunyadi but again at the expense of legitimacy or stability. Alternatively they could be made advisors as well.
What I really don't like with Margaret especially is that she changes the dynasty to Anjou which is implausible as she only would have been able to take direct power in her husband's name or for her son - essentially a regency council. Second this almost like a get out of jail free card for the War of the Roses disaster (which is already weak).
For the ones that were named as an heir for lack of a male one couldn't these events be reworked to be like the Lux Stella events? Say between the years 1540-1600 if you're England and have no heir you could name a daughter named Elizabeth as an heir of your dynasty, albeit for a prestige hit and legitimacy hit and giving a weak to moderate claim for that heir. Or alternatively get an advisor/prestige/relations bonus for keeping her in court or marrying her off.
This would depict the difficulties and reluctance in having a queen on the throne as almost all the famous ones at this time were attended by succession crises and instability. This pretty much covers the ones like Elizabeth, Maria Theresa or Isabella.
Then for the ones that act as a regent like Margaret de Anjou or Catherine de Medici these could be potentially powerful regency councils like Janos Hunyadi but again at the expense of legitimacy or stability. Alternatively they could be made advisors as well.
What I really don't like with Margaret especially is that she changes the dynasty to Anjou which is implausible as she only would have been able to take direct power in her husband's name or for her son - essentially a regency council. Second this almost like a get out of jail free card for the War of the Roses disaster (which is already weak).
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