Just had a daughter- not even a son- but a daughter in a male-dominated culture who was born of a concubine, and because she's my first child, she is heir to everything. What? I thought it would be my choice and that any concubine's child would only inherit if I selected that they would. The mod isn't working. Great idea, though.

Seems to be working for me.

mod is not working :(

It would be also great if there was a game rule to give those children claims, but not titles

@HolyMolyOllyPoly let me check that, I suppose a localization update caused this

Not a game breaking bug, but this mod makes the new higher tier commander traits' names be like "trait_logistician_3."

@Heirandthespare it was working regardless of being made for a different version

Does this need an update?

unfortunately i cant make this work with AGOT. Children of concubines still get claims on the titles

@SubtropicalTree you're a legend. ty

Sorry for the update spam, I wasn't sure why the new trait descriptions were all messed up but the mod is now working again

Thanks for the heads up. Looking into it!

need update like mention below it does mess with the gallowbait trait

needs mini update for new patch, messes with some trait names(ie gallowsbait) for some reason

Hacking partition by marrying a sterile wife and only manually elevating 1 son from a concubine. Basically a better Primogeniture for the cost of 1 diplomacy on your heir . Good mod; a bit OP tho imo if u abuse it.

Nice job!

This seems to sometimes not work or just straight up stop working mid playthrough

@hamdepaf Yes, most cultures enabled inheritance for concubines children, but several (such as early Nordic cultures) also had added stipulations that that really only kicked in after all children born of wedlock/from marriage who were able to inherit inherited something. Therefore removing the malus for children of concubines actually would be more historically accurate for some cultures in game than having a son born of a concubine inheriting over his younger brother born of a wife, since that is historically inaccurate for them. Both this game and this mod severely limit actual historic veracity for simplicity's sake but that is not in any way a bad thing since this is a game.

I agree with the prestige cost. Different reasons though.

Most concubines come from tribal governments which already heavily rely on prestige. It's way more fitting to have to use that for the interaction as well. Feudal already get hit with devotion reductions and sin traits for bastards, it's only fitting to have some sort of "nerf" for elevating.

Thanks everyone for the nice comments!

This mod was a great lesson for me in terms of complexity.

Just want to take comments on a possible change:

I've strongly considered the cost of the Elevating interaction and I feel it would be better to switch it to Prestige.

While Familial interactions usually resort to Renown for expenses, this interaction should be used a lot more freely than Bastard Legitimization or Disinherit/Restore Inheritance.

It would be nice to hear comments on this possible change.

Just what I've been looking for. Thank you!

This is a great mod thank you!

@hamdepaf thanks for the comment!

not just "some cultures allowed children of concubines to inherit titles" all of them, the whole point of concubines is to have more potential heirs, so that the kingdom isn't faced with not having a ruler inherit the crown.
So yea this mod doesn't really fix anything, it takes liberties on reality to make a mechanic more convinient for the player.

I managed to do this feature. I honestly didn't think I'd be able to because my modding knowledge is very limited as I started doing stuff very recently, but alas I made it!

Hope everyone enjoys it!

I'm looking into elevating option at the moment, by either removing the trait altogether or creating a new trait similar to legitimazed bastard

+1 to anyone who says optional elevation

It would be better if this mod had a decision or interaction that removes the children of a concubine. Some cultures/dynasties allowed children of concubine to inherit titles.

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@Riaman agreed, would be a great feature for this mod ngl

Have an option to elevate children of concubine, or let them scheme to fabricating claims would make this perfect

Simple yet effective! I'm glad I can now land them myself if I want to, but I'm not forced to.

@Tobes I'll look at the game files and try to understand how Born in the Purple and Byzantine Traditions handle this in the game files

would it be possible to make a version of this where children of concubine are simply lower in inheritance? kind of like how born in the purple makes those kids inherit first.