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Glad Jason is looking into families and making them more closely knitted together. I agree with that fully especially if he makes the family the only curse-able around.
However, a family that is very large with many surviving branches becomes really boring really fast and so... Clans! Clans are the same as the family name now, but it serves as a tribal membership and the Eve becomes the legendary ancestor they all share.
I suggest having the option of breaking up a family every second or so generations to make keeping your family alive matter more whilst still keeping them in the same clan.
Interface-wise this can be a "Clan Champagne" above the character name or elsewhere and should not be required when cursing or adding people to property fences.
1. The family name is inherited by all children. If not granted a name or granted a name by some other member whilst adult they still retain their family name.
2. The primary branch keeps the family name whilst secondary branches are allowed to change it once their parent(s) has died.
3. Males do not get a new family name unless marriage is a thing.
4. Childless children are skipped and the family name continues in a secondary branch that either didn't rename their family name or changes their name into something else.
5. It's the parent that decides what their children's last name will be unless of the primary branch. When a surviving daughter renames herself it automatically transfer the last name to her children regardless if they're around or not.
6. If no clan name was chosen by the Eve then the oldest female retains the right and the siblings receive it.
Scenario:
Eve of clan Champagne has three children.
Clothilde (f) survived and had issue, Clark (m) survived, Maria (f) survived and had issue.
Clothilde retains the family name Champagne (of clan Champagne). Maria gets to create a new family name (Knight of clan Champagne) when Eve Champagne has died if she wants to. Unless marriage is a thing, Clark retains the family name.
Clothilde has three children.
Hilda (f) dies young, Roe (f) survives but has no issue, Vera (f) has issue but predecease her mother.
Hilda is skipped, Roe gets the family name unless she remains childless, Vera gets the family name.
Everyone in this tree is of the clan Champagne.
Potential pros
- People will make families based on profession. Smith, Farmer, Cook.
- People will care more about their family.
- We must not all be given a terrible family name all our lives, just a clan name that might not be the best.
- It's easier to differentiate between families within a clan and who you should care for.
- Rulers have a better succession line if that's their thing.
- If you don't care for this then you need not participate and not rename your last name as a secondary branch holder.
Cons?
- People who don't like to roleplay get pissy.
- Potentially hard to do.
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