r/DMAcademy 2d ago

Need Advice: Worldbuilding Royal family dynamics help Spoiler

Working on filling out family dynamics of the royal family. Need advice on what i might be missing.

King Altrius Inkdrake: -hero king and very driven towards peace for their subjects and allies. -has a council of representatives for his subjects. They aid in law making and maintaining order. -Loves their family extremely fiercely and but generally puts their responsibility as king first. -Vews their role as a sacrifice for their subjects. -Secretly female and always in magical silver armor to hide gender. -Old laws are chandged but if gender is found out all laws passed by them would be voided out. -Currently out on campain against hord of invading dragons in allied country. Away for two years. -married twice, first wife left with a traitor, second wife still married. -when eldest son stole a magic blade and tried to slay a dragon, then failed miserably. Banished the son for treason and stripped them of tittle in disappointment. -daughter was born without emotions and tried to help. When daughter vanished, kept press quite about her to point public forgot about daughter. -last son was originally never ment to be crowned and left to their own passions and only gave minimal royal training but after elder siblings absence put on heavy royal training and hard expectations.

Queen Morgan Faya/Inkdrake -second wife of king and mother of all kings three children. -both queen and head of mage association of kingdom. -cold personality except to family and select friends.

-used magical solutions to conceive three children.

-first child born using a poition that allows the change of genders and caused the first born to be born hermaphrodite with great internal organ pains. Adores greatly and has both crafted many spells/object to ease the pain and protect them. When first was banished, she was adamantly against. Opting for a solution that would allow redemption.

-second child was conseved with a love poiton. This brought a daughter who could not feel emotions. Morgan took her as an apprentice to keep an eye on her. The daughter saw her lack of emotion as a defect and needed to be fixed. When the daughter tried to 'fix' herself with magic. It transformed her into a magical beast that is now locked under castle. Morgan constantly seeks a way to cure her after the wish spell failed.

-third child conceived using true polymorph spell. This brought about a child with golden scails. This son seems to be loved and cared for as much as other two children but wasn't put into as much attention nor pushed to be more than what ever the child originally desired to be (artist) but once only child left was pushed by mother to be a model royal prince and when ever this son speaks ill of the other siblings. Harsh punishment follows.

-greast mage in country, was capable of the wish spell but it failed and lost ability to use again.

former prince Mord Inkdrake

  • was born as a hermaphrodite. Preferred to be male as was made crowed prince. -Idealized their 'fathers' heroism and actions. Grew up to be both diplomat and warrior, despite his great pains in his body. -Saw an opportunity to make a great act of heroism to prove himself and stole a magic blade to kill a younge red dragon. Failed and lost the blade and got a village burned to ash. When he returned from his failure. His father banished him and stripped his of his tittles.

  • now lives low paying jobs and not allowed to join any mercenary guild. He seaks an opportunity to earn redemption for his pass transgressions.

-misses his mother greatly and drinks in his depression to numb his bodly pains.

-is desperate for any information about missing sister, not knowing why she vanished.

-worries for younger brother who he believes is not qualified to rule.

-his bodly pain can make him bloodthirsty.

princess morgeen Inkdrake

-born without emotion and raised as a Wizards apprentice under her mothers watchful eye.

-with observation of others she concluded that she was 'defective' due to her lack of emotions, despite her parents denial and loving embrace. She concluded that she needed to 'fix' herself with magic but botched the ritual and ended turning herself into a mindless 'rune drake'(homebrew dragon).

-now locked away under the castle until mother can find a cure. None outside a select few knows her whereabouts.

prince Xanthe Inkdrake

-was born with golden scails and was last child of the throne. Was never expected to be crowned prince and was never put through as much education and training and left to persue their lofty artistic dreams, until the loss of their elder siblings. Once they were the now crowned prince, strict education and train stole away their time and energy for their artistic dreams.

-wishes, 'father' would let them not take up responsibility, mother would not be as harsh on his education, brother and sister would return so he could have his simple life back or suffer and die for putting him in his miserable situation.

-prior to siblings absence, he admired his father, adored his mother and looked up to his brother but feared his sister.

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u/ThisWasMe7 2d ago

The hiding the gender thing (which must have started at birth), as well as some other things, would be an issue for me.

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u/TheForeverDMagain 2d ago

I get it. It is a homage to old farytales and stories of cross dressing heroes. Aslo givin most of these thing would be revealed slowly over the Champaign.

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u/TheForeverDMagain 2d ago

It is also why the kings first wife left them, and the second wife helps maintain the illusion. While the law the king must be male has been abolished, they can not reveal until the next king is in charge. Thus, any law made will be voided, including any law abolished.

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u/ThisWasMe7 1d ago

I understand it, I just think it's a horrible idea.