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How to get married in The Elder Scrolls: Castles
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Rules and restrictions of marriage
Although it is a simple city management game, The Elder Scrolls: Castles reveals the intriguing mechanics of marriage and romance, which can either lead to a nation of happily married couples or a web of love triangles and dramatic relationships.
New players need to understand the three main aspects of romance in the game: how to get married, how to get divorced, and how to cheat or avoid being cheated on. Familiarity with these details will help The Elder Scrolls: Castles players navigate a romantic drama in a castle and use marriage as a means to produce powerful heirs for their countries. Here's a guide to it all.
Marry two subjects, you have to unlock Marie's shrine firstwhich becomes available at the ninth level of dynasty progress. This statute allows two subjects to become husband and wife. You will need to manually assign two shrine characters to begin the wedding ceremony.
Unlike similar games Stardew Valley, The Elder Scrolls: Castles it is not required that the two subjects you designate to be married be lovers. Although a character can have multiple lovers, they can only marry one. After marriage, if a wife or husband has children with an old lover or a stranger, their husband will consider it cheating. But if the children were born before the marriage, there would be no conflict between the spouses.
Rules and restrictions of marriage
- Marriage in The Elder Scrolls: Castles is gender specificallowing same-sex subjects to marry and have children.
- Each subject can have only one spouse. As long as their husband is alive, they cannot marry another, even if adultery has occurred.
- Marriage is not required for breeding. Lovers can have children without marriage, but placing a married couple in the bedroom leads to offspring faster. Strangers, however, take longer in the bedroom to become lovers and reproduce.
Breeding in
The Elder Scrolls: Castles
similar to Babymaking in
Fallout Shelter
. If you've played Fallout Shelter, you're already familiar with the game's basic spawn mechanics.
How to get a divorce
The only way to get a divorce The Elder Scrolls: Castles by expelling one of the spouses. Otherwise, the couple will stay married even if one has cheated. If you don't banish one of them, you won't be able to arrange a new marriage with either party.
As the game progressed, I discovered that the ruler's wife had cheated on him and was given three options: 1) do nothing, 2) punish the wife, or 3) fine the wife and her lover but let them stay in the castle. I chose the third option, but found that I could not allow the king to marry another woman. It wasn't until I banished the traitorous wife that I was able to appoint a new queen to the kingdom.
How cheating works
Cheating occurs when a married person or someone in an intimate relationship fathers children with another character.
As a Ruler, you can force a married subject or someone in a committed relationship to sleep with another character. Just put them in the bedroom with another object and wait for them to fall in love. It may take a few minutes for the novel to develop.
Cheating will hurt the feelings of the betrayed spouse, potentially lowering their level of happiness. This will also prompt the decision of the emperor, who may decide to banish, punish, or pardon the cheating husband. Each of these decisions will have consequences.
Consequences of cheating
- Forgiving a cheater will create enemies; a betrayed spouse can become vindictive if you choose not to get involved in the drama.
- Cheaters' fines will lower their happiness levelbut this can be compensated for later with happiness-inducing structures such as the Music Stage.
- Banishing a cheater will remove one of your subjects. If the cheater is a worker, you'll lose him forever and have to find a replacement.
