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This player posted to the Crusader Kings subreddit with a problem you’d never expect. The attached screenshot shows a fairly impressive realm, with the player seated as the Emperor of a realm of 200+ provinces, with 25 directly held holdings. 25,000+ Prestige, 13,000+ Piety, an army of 19,000+, and a treasury of nearly 60,000 gold should be enough for any CK3 player to feel rather confident and secure in their position. However, the problem lies in a rather unique set of circumstances. The player character’s grandson and Dynasty member, who will eventually inherit everything the player has worked so hard for, has made the unfortunate decision to marry himself.
“Do you guys know a way to stop my grandson from marrying himself without making gay marriage illegal?” the poster asks.
“What a title,” responds the post’s top comment.
Beyond being a particularly strange and funny situation to find oneself in, the player’s concern is not unwarranted. This unfortunate situation actually has the potential to hard-lock the player out of progressing much further into the game.
If you’ve never played Crusader Kings 3, the rules of inheritance might seem a bit confusing. When playing the game, you rule over your domain, but only actually play as one character. This character lives their entire life until death, by natural causes or otherwise. In order to continue playing after the death of your character, you need an heir, which can only be born through marriage with a character of the opposite biological sex of your own, with some exceptions. Once the first character dies, you play as their child/heir, and so on and so forth until you run out of heirs. Even if you have a massive family, it’s game over if you don’t have a direct heir of your own.
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Your heirs also play as NPCs/AI-controlled entities until you die and take control of them, which means they can end up making their own decisions, regardless of what it does to your playthrough. In this case, the NPC heir choosing to marry themselves is something that can’t be controlled.
Abiding by these rules, this player has spotted a problem down the line. Though they will play as their son in their next life, that character’s heir has gone and married themselves, blocking them out of the medieval consensus for legitimate reproduction. Without a wife, this player’s bloodline, along with all of the congenital traits they worked so hard to cultivate, will be gone, alongside their entire realm if they can’t find a way around this character’s self-marriage.
Hilariously, commenters on the subreddit pointed out that the self-married character has the Arrogant trait, which just might explain how they found themselves in this situation.
