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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mercule" data-source="post: 2370878" data-attributes="member: 5100">I like this, but would turn it around some.  The human lord marries an orc princess to settle the borders between them.  They produce one son, who will inherit the farm, so to speak, but is hot-headed and a bit anti-social both because of the social stigma and the fact he comes from a loveless union. Father maintains a long-term elven mistress (kind of like the French, but with pointy ears and eternal youth).  The relationship is acknowledged and has produced a daughter for the lord.  Depending on politics, the relationship/daughter may even predate the marriage.  If the elven woman is a shopkeep or minor aristocrat for a nation that is distant and not politically important, the lord father may not have been permitted by his handlers to marry the love of his life. As to the relationship, this could result in the brother/heir being jealous of the love his sister receives, while she is resentful of the fact that her uncouth tool of a brother is to inherit her father's lands and title.  If bastards and women can be inheritors, there could be competition between them.  Or, they may have hit it off as kids and look out for each other, with the girl providing the caring and social ease the boy needed, with him protecting his beautiful bastard sister from harmful intents and providing an outlet and legitimacy for her naturally political mind. And, nothing says all of those options couldn't be true at the same time.</blockquote>

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