Discuss Relationships, Romance, Marriage and Divorce here:

Today's Q&A responses revealed that you can now enter into romance relationships with NPCs in Skyrim and even get married, according to Bruce Nesmith:

7) Will we be able to have relationships with the NPCs, romantic or otherwise?
Bruce: Absolutely! You make friends with people by doing things for them. Friends in the game will treat you differently. Some of them will even agree to go with you into dungeons and on adventures. You can even get married. If you own a house, your spouse will move in with you.
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What do you think about this new feature?

Will your PC get married?

Divorced?

Will you remain faithful or perhaps flirt with other NPCs behind your spouse's back?

What about if you get thrown in prison, do you think your wife would visit you and bring you a lockpick?

How do you think getting married (or getting divorced) will affect Radiant Story quests?

Do you think your spouse might get kidnapped by The Horme bandits, for example,

Or if you anger your wife, that she might take out a contract on your life?

What will happen if you follow your spouse around for a day?

Will they continue performing the same daily activities and job schedule they had before marriage?

If you marry a baker, or a shopkeeper, would you expect her to behave differently than if you marry a fellow member of the Dark Brotherhood?

• a general in the Rebel army?
  
• a bandit?
  
• the leader of the Whiterun Witches' Coven?
  
• an assistant librarian at the College of Winterhold, who spends all her time cataloging books for the Ysmir Collective?
  
• an aristocrat, Clan Matriarch or even the Jarl of a Clan that rules one of the Nine Holds?

What does everyone think this new feature means for modders?

Many mods added companions and romance features for Oblivion, but now that there is this framework, does it make this easier for creative modders to implement new quests and stories involving NPC friendships or romance?
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Some more interesting questions posed by Verbose:

Verbose, on 06 July 2011 - 12:44 PM, said:

• Will you be able to break a marriage by seducing one (of both) spouse(s), and then get married with the one of your choice?
  
• Will you be able, as an evil character, to kidnap one spouse to force the other to do something for you?
  
• One of the most interesting of these questions, from a gameplay and story-telling viewpoint (but not necessarily from the point of view of role-play) is that ennemies may try to harm the player through his family. Or to kidnap the beloved one to force him doing something. This could lead to long fascinating questlines (and would offer a brilliant application to the radiant story mechanics, since it would be heavily depending on the previous actions of the player)
  
• If marriage is in the game, then divorce surely should be in.
  
• But how do the laws of Skyrim allow it (if they do), to what conditions?
  
• Would it raise many problems related to ownership?
  
• Divorce isn't the only way to make an end to a marital status.
  
• Will repudiation be in the game? Widowhood is an other possible outcome.
  
• How will the inheritance be handled?
  
• Will I be able to play a black widow, chasing for heritage?
  
• Will homosixual relationship be possible? Will they possibly give rise to a wedding?
  
• How will other NPCs react to people involved into homosixual relationships?
  
• how will they react to people involved into interracial relationships?
  
• In addition to official marriage, will there be unofficial romantic kinds of union?
  
• Will we witness marital ceremonies?
  
• Will, for example, magic be involved to seal the oaths in some way?
  
• How do two people worshipping different gods get married? What kind of ceremony will they attend?
  
• Will advltery be possible?
  
• What kind of consequence would it give cause to?
  
• What are the dictates of the different religions regarding faithfulness?
  
• Will some of them tolerate polygamy?
  
• What new crimes will the laws punish? The examples that pop into my mind are conjugal violence, and possibly advltery.
  
• Will it be possible to make or adopt children?
  
• In case of interracial wedding, will it be possible to have hybrid children?
  
• How will it be possible to seduce people, and will your chosen appearance affect the way different people react to your charming attempts?
  
• Will there be forced weddings?
  
• Will a powerful mage be able to cast spells in a permanent enough way to force someone to marry him/her, which could be seen as a form of mental and de facto enslavement?
  
• In a similar context, will I be able to invoke a Mazken or an Aureal, to bind her/him to Nirn and then to marry her/him?
  
• Will my wife/husband be able to follow me into dungeons?
  
• Will my ennemies try to harm me through her/him?
  
• will there be nudity and sixuality in the game? I mean, it would be very strange that spouses wouldn't even know what each other look like.

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Please keep on topic and pay heed to Summer's warning:

"Please just discuss the relationships that may or may not be in the game and steer away from any off topic conversation. We are not discussing real world law or bigotry here, we are discussing what will or will not fit into this game.

In addition I ask that you refrain from expressing your strong opinions about life choices in a way as to offend other members or groups of members of this forum. "



http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1207886-skyrim-relationships-friendship-romance-marriage-cheating-divorce/

http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1207572-skyrim-npc-relationships-friendships-romance-marriage-divorce/

http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1207471-getting-hitched-romance-marriage-divorce/

http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1207393-getting-hitched/

i'd like romance characters to be tied to the factions/main story so that they can be fleshed out during quests maybe as quest givers or companions, kinda like sentinel Lyons in fallout 3 if she were romanceable.

Uhhhhh.... get married to an assassin would be cool and going on contracts together. :hugs:

I hope we get to at least adopt children since it's more difficult to incorporate pregnancy into a game like Skyrim.

I honestly can't think of a character I'd want to play that would marry, or even travel with companions. Elder Scrolls is a single player experience for me, and I play solitary characters that are on a quest for their own destiny.
I don't have time to bother with other people! :flamethrower:

That would certainly be a fun way to spend "date night," perhaps you would need to hire a babysitter :lmao:

One thing that concerns me is that in previous Bethesda games (including New Vegas which was based on the FO3 engine), companions were either essential (non-killable) in which case adventuring with them was practically converting the game into God Mode. Or they were non-essential, and would usually do something stupid to get killed.

Since nearly all the advlt NPC in the game with the exception of a few Main Quest givers will be non-essential, do you think Bethesda has improved combat A.I. for companions?

A good thread Bootysweat, and I noted all the improvements! I say Dark Seduers AND Golden Saints, of course. And Dremora and Winged Twilights are still missing from the list, which is unfortunate by some estimates, I would imagine.

I am still voting hard for polyamory. Harems please. Lol. :celebration: :celebration: :celebration: :celebration:

Im feeling a polygamy character coming on. I come home from my adventures to greet my 14 wives and their kids, living awkwardly in a small cottage. :sweat:

I'm currently replaying Oblivion, and just rescued Dar-Ma. I forgot what a cute a likable young lass, she is. If there is a character like her in Skyrim, it will be hard not to romance her.

I'm surprised Ahnassi from Morrowind wasn't in there. I liked her (although she'd have been dead for over a century by the time Skyrim rolls around).

Ahnassi and Dar-Ma were nice. Everyone else was either neutral or hostile it seems, lol.

My Bosmer shall find a Nord lady to climb, lol.
Ahhhh, aha. *wonders if anybody laughed*

Anyhow, depending on what happens when things do come up... :celebration:

A friendship, at the most.

I want to pursue a relationship with Alval Uvani if he's in Skyrim!


Just kiddin'.

I think it would actually be pretty funny to see someone attempt a romance thing with M'aiq the Liar.

This!

I have a question about one of the poll options. Why would anyone install or even make a mod that removes relationships from Skyrim? Wouldn't that be more of a hassle than just simply ignoring it since it is optional...?

Hopefully you will actually have to interact with your family to keep them together and also support them. I was thinking of making a sort of everyman character that had alchemy, smithing, mercantile, and archery for hunting and also cooked, cut wood, all that stuff. He would do all those sorts of jobs for money to support his family.

I'd love to meet a Daedric Prince worshiper like my planned Skyrim character! Or an assassin that has standards(Be polite, be efficient, and have a plan to kill everyone you meet). The only reason I would do a divorce is to see what will happen. Like Todd Howard said, the players like to test the boundaries of the game. Even if it means killing the first guy you see.

Some indicated they would like to do so in the previous thread.

I imagine it is probably easier to ignore those options, but the beauty of modding is that you can completely customize your experience.

Can you get favors from them?........................ Get your mind out of the gutter I mean like free stuff or discounts!

Hmm...I'm guessing perhaps we cannot marry any merchants, even relatives of dead merchants who take over the store for someone else.

The reason is that it would be pretty strange if you have to buy things from your wife or husband, even if s/he gives you a discount

I was none of the above until I saw the Lusty Argonian Maid. That would be THE best easter egg ever.

BootySweat,

A very interesting series of threads.

You inquired about my character's background story in Thread #5, however it was locked before I could respond.

Very brief answer: No, Sibyl was not escaping the marriage.

Her father had organized an arranged marriage, and negotiation were on-going.

Sibyl was 16 years old, and it was known that she had arcane skills. These factors complicated the bride-price issue.

During nuptial negotiations, regarding her bride-price, a fire erupted killing several members of the groom's family.

Again, keeping this very brief, Sibyl was charged and found guilty of witchcraft, and was sentenced to death.

After the trial, Sibyl was placed in irons that prevented use of magika, and she was transported via a prison cart to a holding area.

Enroute, angry partisans threw insults, garbage and human waste at her. Children jabbed at her with pointed, burning sticks. "Witch," was one of the kinder terms they called her. She bled from several places. Tears streaked down her dirty face.

Finally, this tormented soul arrived at the holding area.

This was near Riverwood, in the Province of Skyrim, where she was to spend her final, miserable hours of mortality.

Squalor, stench, mud, and pain were the components of her universe.

In the fog of a confused mind, a tortured body, and a wounded soul, Sibyl could no longer determine nightmare from reality.

However, from somewhere in the darkness, she heard the dragons whisper...

The actual prologue and story are quite detailed and contain much descriptive narrative and some dialogue. This is just a quick thumbnail draft to answer your question.

Thanks for the interest and for the interesting thread.