[Discuss] Adventurer questions

[Samuel Knowlton]

William the Conquerer is not a good example for this thread.

There were three types of bastards in the Middle Ages:

"Noble bastards," or acknowledged sons of powerful lords. They couldn't 
inherit anything but they had all the rights and privileges of nobility, and 
they could still be granted titles (they just wouldn't get additional ones 
on the ruler's death). Herny VIII's sun, I think named Fitzroy, was one such 
person.

One step up from acknowledging a bastard is legitimizing one. Sometimes you 
needed the Pope, but sometimes you could get away with doing this yourself.

Our adventurers in BM are really neither of these. They are the third type, 
which is more like the lowest-born bastard of the lowest branch of your 
family. The noble blood in them is so thin that they have no claim to 
nobility and have to do amazing things to get such a claim. If Duke Bob has 
an illegitimate child with Countess Jane, their child is not going to be an 
adventurer. If Duke Bob has a child with the cook, then it's possible.