"Claim Bloodline" ambition
What does this do and how can someone accomplish this?
Posted Nov 12, 2015, 6:44 PM UTC
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You can see people with those bloodline traits, I guess if you marry someone to your heir?
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Well completion conditions aren't listed so I have no idea.
This character in question (who has this ambition) is descendant from a father who has a bloodline trait and a mother with no trait. But the bloodline trait didn't get passed down to him for some reason. He has this ambition instead.
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It might be a glitch. I have never seen this ambition.
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If I interpret the files correctly, you can choose this ambition if you do not have a bloodline trait, but one of your parents, grandparents or great-grandparents did. As bloodlines are inherited patrilineally, a female with a bloodline trait among your ancestry would probably satisfy the condition. Not sure whether bastards inherit bloodlines, but that might be another way.
Since bloodlines are exclusive, you can't already have a bloodline to choose the ambition. You also cannot have any of the following traits: mane, incapable, humble, slothful, undead, dremora, lich
I haven't found the files concerning possible events connected to the ambition, but I guess there would be some events with a fairly low chance of occuring where you can claim the bloodline of your ancestors. Claiming any bloodline satisfies the completion conditon. Completing the ambition gets you 150 prestige and a negative opinion modifier with anyone of the bloodline you claimed.
Edit: found the event. Mean time to happen: 768 months, reduced by diligent, gregarious and Intrigue > 12. Increased by slothful, slob, strange (dont know which trait that is, probably absent-minded?), low intrigue. There might be a mistake in the code - not that I'm any good at reading it - but whatever diplomacy you have, the MTTH is increased anyway. So it's a very, very rare event even if your character is diligent, gregarious and a decent intriguer.
That's weird. My character's father had the trait but it didn't get passed down. Because of matrilineal marriage maybe?
Probably the ambition allows events to fire so I can claim the bloodline, similar to the have a hobby ambition. I'll keep it as my ambition and see what happens.
Strange is its own trait. The description is something like "there's something off about this person." I've seen it in Ruler Designer.
Strange can mean just "strange" or secretly a vampire.
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