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How to get married in The Elder Scrolls: Castles
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Rules and limitations of marriage
Despite being a simple city management game, The Elder Scrolls: Castles presents an intriguing mechanism of marriage and love that can result in either a nation of happily married couples or a web of love triangles and relationship dramas.
New players should understand three fundamental aspects of in-game romance: how to get married, how to divorce, and how to cheat or avoid cheating. Familiarity with these details will help The Elder Scrolls: Castles players navigate the romantic drama in the castle and use marriage as a means to produce powerful heirs for their nations. Here's a guide to it all.
To marry two subjects, first you need to unlock Mara Shrinewhich becomes available at Level Nine of Dynasty Progress. This statute allows two subjects to become spouses. To initiate the wedding ceremony, you will need to manually assign two characters to the altar.
Unlike games like Stardew Valley, The Elder Scrolls: Castles it does not require the marriage of the two subjects you assign to be loved. While a character can have multiple lovers, they can only marry one. After marriage, if the wife or husband has children with an elderly lover or a stranger, their husband will consider them cheating. However, if the children were born before the marriage, there would be no conflict between the spouses.
Rules and limitations of marriage
- Marriage in The Elder Scrolls: Castles includes genderallowing 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 someone else, even if infidelity occurs.
- Marriage is not necessary for reproduction. Lovers can have children without being married, but putting a married couple in the bedroom leads to offspring faster. Strangers, however, take more time in the bedroom to become lovers and reproduce.
Reproduction in
The Elder Scrolls: Castles
it is similar to making babies in
Fallout shelter
. If you've played Fallout Shelter, you're already familiar with the basic mechanics of spawning in this game.
How to get a divorce
The only way to divorce The Elder Scrolls: Castles it is through the exile of one of the spouses. Otherwise, the couple will remain married, even if someone cheated. If you don't banish one of them, you won't be able to arrange a new marriage for either party.
In my game, I discovered that the ruler's wife was cheating 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 make the king marry another woman. It wasn't until I banished the treacherous wife that I was able to appoint a new queen to the kingdom.
How the cheat works
Cheating occurs when a married subject or someone in a committed relationship has children of a different character.
As a Ruler, you can make a married subject or one in a committed relationship sleep with another character. Simply place them in the bedroom with another subject and wait for them to fall in love. It can take a few minutes for a love story to develop.
Cheating will hurt the betrayed spouse's feelings, possibly lowering his level of happiness. It will also prompt a decision on the part of the emperor, who may choose to banish, punish, or pardon the cheating spouse. Each of these decisions will have its own consequences.
The consequences of cheating
- Forgiving a cheater will make enemies; the betrayed spouse can become vindictive if you choose not to intervene in the drama.
- Fining cheaters will lower their happiness levelbut this can be compensated for later with happiness-inducing structures such as the Music Stage.
- Banishing the cheater will remove one of your subjects. If the cheating party is a worker, you will lose them for good and have to find a replacement.
