Question from a new player, if you all would entertain me . .

Either I’m daft or such information is missing in the help files, but if you create a bloodline via the bloodbond method, are you able to incorporate siblings after the family name is officially recognized? Or just annoying children?

Only children, unfortunately.

Just annoying spouses.

Then the individual couples can bring in children.

I want to eat your avatar, cheesecake person.

Joli, choked on my water when I read that reply.

And yes, you can't add any more siblings once you create a family by bloodbonding, only children and spouses. Which is annoying as anything because while you can certainly RP being the sister/brother of two bloodbonded family founders, anyone who honors you will see that you are 'not active in any family.'

Lovely. So basically, it is not worth the credit purchase to convert to coin and buy the bloodline. Unless of course, I want to annoy myself with a spouse and deal with children.

Is this going to change anytime soon?

As I read in the help files, I can 'find' my parents, or I can 'find' my children. Why can't I 'find' my siblings?

Am I forced to endure snuggling and cuddling if I want a bloodline? I'll pay for it - I have no issue there. I just don't like to be forced into such RP.

Wait, you can find ONE sibling, and start a bloodline. You just can't add any more at the root generation.

So, Jasper and Elryn and Arale are all siblings. Jasper and Elryn bloodbond, but the mechanics won't allow us to include Arale in the family technically. It's annoying, but apparently so that you cannot simply sibling up a Great House.

Personally, I like the suggestion of ditching great houses (I mean, most big families have a clan anyway), and allowing as many bloodbonds as you like at the root generation, provided they are within a certain age range.

Agreed.

You're not able to join more than two siblings. It sucks, because Aris is the third Carthan, and he can't be official.

Scrapping great houses would be fine with me. Most of the Whytetowers are too old to be official anyways... Doesn't stop us.

I have to say I -love- the Great Houses. It's one of the things that kept me in Lusternia.

However, it would be nice if it were possible to have three root generation siblings.

And as for being forced into 'snuggling'... perhaps you're looking at the wrong families...?

so wait, you want a family... but don't want to have to RP that your in a family?

You are talking about Great Houses as in a family that has more than 50 members, right? Not the Magnagoran families?

...yes. *peer*

Since no one has managed to get one, I'm surprised it's what's keeping you here. *eye*

No, I don't want to be forced into RPing a parent or wife, and having children in order to have a family.

So... don't. Bloodbond to someone else, and voila, you have two siblings, neither of whom are wives or parents.

Why don't we just change Great Houses so its based on number of and progenitor diversity within generations, so you can have as many siblings as you want but it's not going to matter until your family is filled out through X number of generations with some number of source parents contributing branches through each generation?

There was a great family at one point...

Ah, but just two siblings, and never any more. That is the part that pains me. However such is the case, and sadly I'll have to be settle for a family name in titles only.