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[Link to update in desc] Inheritance Doctrine: Concubine's Children

Due to OneDrive nuking my files, I can't update any mods made before the zombie one, and must instead upload updated but separate versions of my old mods.
1.9 version: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2976374352





Did you know that in a lot of societies that allowed concubinage, the children of concubines weren't allowed to inherit like children from spouses could?

This mod adds 3 doctrines, 3 traits and 2 character interactions.
The first doctrine, "Legitimate", is the default doctrine and under it the children of concubines are allowed to inherit just like the children of spouses. Children of concubines are born with the "Equal Offspring" trait.
The second doctrine, "Legitimisation", has children of concubines be unable to inherit by default. However, you can legitimise any of them you like. Children of concubines who have no legitimised or born-in-marriage siblings will be born with the "Unclear Offspring" trait, but will otherwise be born as "Lesser Offspring."
The third doctrine, "No Legitimisation", has children of concubines be unable to inherit and you cannot legitimise them. Children of concubines are born with the "Lesser Offspring" trait.
You may notice that religions start without any of these doctrines. This is functionally the same as having the "Legitimate" doctrine.

Whether or not the child of a concubine can inherit is shown by which of three traits they have:
"Lesser Offspring" = can't inherit.
"Unclear Offspring" = can inherit, but is replaced with lesser offspring the moment one of their siblings becomes equal offspring or a sibling is born in marriage. Exists mostly to prevent dynasties hitting dead ends when rulers take concubines but not spouses.
"Equal Offspring" = can inherit.

Legitimising / de-legitimising the children of concubines is done through a character interaction. Requirements include:
- Being the same house as them.
- Being their parent or house head.
- If legitimising, your faith must not have the "No Legitimisation" doctrine.
- If de-legitimising, your faith must have the "No Legitimisation" or "Legitimisation" doctrine.
- Cannot be a concubine or lowborn (duh).
The interactions cost prestige, 45 or 10 depending on your doctrine.

Compatibility:
99% chance it's compatible with any other mod.
It only adds things, it doesn't overwrite anything. Can't have "oh no both these mods overwrite the same thing" problems if one of the mods doesn't overwrite anything. You can play this with Medieval Matriarchs, More Tenet Slots, even a mod that also messes with how inheritance works will likely be compatible with this.
Be warned that you can crash your game with the decisions for mass legitimizing and mass de-legitimizing children born from concubines if you have too many of them. The problem seems to be with it taking a little bit of prestige from you per child being legitimized/de-legitimized, rather than the actual legitimization/de-legitimization, so


Most recent additions:
- Stuff with the "Unclear Offspring" trait.
- Decisions for mass legitimizing and de-legitimizing offspring. This costs the same amount of prestige as using the interaction would, except you can go into the negatives.
Be warned that you can crash your game with the decisions for mass legitimizing and mass de-legitimizing children born from concubines if you have too many of them. The problem seems to be with it calculating the prestige cost by adding up the amount of kids being legitimized/de-legitimized, rather than the actual legitimization/de-legitimization, so this is gonna be swapped out for a large but unchanging prestige cost.


Future plans:
- Make religions automatically start with certain doctrines, add gamerules / global flags for letting players determine which religions have which doctrines.
- Make legitimacy of concubine-children automatically update when you reform religion. At the moment you need to reform and THEN go through the effort of de-legitimizing them.
- Make AI legitimize and de-legitimize concubine-children under certain circumstances. For example doing so based on their opinions of them, or based on whether or not they have certain traits or stats. This would likely make areas where concubinage is the norm slightly harder to conquer as more competent children are likely to be the ones inheriting land from their parents, and the fact that these children can then have concubines/consorts of their own means they'd have more children that could inherit certain stats or traits.

Chinese Translation:
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2848461457

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