Crusader Kings 3: Genetic Traits Guide
Crusader Kings 3 has a complex and robust genetic simulation feature that plays a significant role in the game. Traits significantly affect how good a character is at certain things and can change how they interact with the world, and some of these traits can be inherited.
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These are known as congenital traits, and they come in both helpful and hindering forms. Understanding how the inheritance system works can help inform your strategy when it comes to marriage and succession or even become a fun exercise to create the most blessed or cursed character in existence.
Updated May 4 by Ryan Bamsey: Knowing and understanding a character's traits and how trait inheritance works is one of the keys to success in Crusader Kings 3. Being able to create a line of the strongest, most intelligent heirs is one way to improve your chances of success in basically any situation or event the game throws at you, and learning how inheritance works is the first step.
There are a few different types of congenital traits. Some are simply standalone traits that can be passed down, while others are part of a group of traits that share characteristics and can be modified one way or another.
These traits can be inherited by any child of a character who has them, which may help you when choosing a marriage partner or whether to embrace celibacy.
It is also possible to inherit some diseases if the child is conceived while a parent has them, these being the Great Pox and the Lover's Pox. In addition, it's also possible to inherit traits that occur as a result of inbreeding. This works differently from most congenital traits and is based on how closely related a set of parents is. For more
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