forum How are children of nobles/royalty that born out of wedlock seen as in your world?

Started September 25, 2018 by @yeetus

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Like, can they be heirs? Do they have rights? Do they get inheritance? That sort of stuff

That is actually a good question - I need to work out how this works for my fictional country, else the lack of planning's going to come back to bite me later.

In mine, they live with their noble parent if they're nice, otherwise they're probably just dumped with the common parent and gets ignored. These children are not subject to the inheritance. However, if the noble never got married and has a bastard child, then the bastard child is the heir. If there are multiple bastards but no legitimate children, then the oldest male is the heir. (Cause male has the right of inheritance) If there is a bastard son and a legitimate daughter, the daughter is the heir

How does the bastard son have a legitimate heir? If they were bastards, wouldn't that mean they have no claim whatsoever?

What do you mean?
Or do I just have a typo in my very long post?

Oh, wait. Nevermind. I didn't read the thing properly. Whoops!

What about yours?

I… haven't actually thought that far yet. None of the characters I have are royalty, and I've mostly been focusing on my MCs and their respective loadouts.

OK then

In angel (not biblical, angels are just winged people) culture they come of age at 30 because they can since they live so long. That means an angel can't be married until they're 30 but they can get engaged whenever, specifically royalty because a child can be promised to a king before they're even born, and have children before they're married but only when they are married does that child become a legitimate heir. It's very rare for a royal couple to change their mind about marriage. So it's actually very common and normal.
But if they have kids with someone who isn't the future king/queen then they face punishment, royalty or not.

It is acceptable, and even expected to cast them out when they are old enough (12-15ish) to make it on their own. They have zero property rights, do not inherit anything unless they are the last ones standing, and have a horrible social stigma.

Oh and in mine, these children don't have a surname and therefore don't belong to a House (unless their noble parent has no legitimate heir). They have Orilsimë (probably spelled that wrong) meaning Houseless in place of a surname