The lord's other children are on the road
Bastards walk the map, and you can hire them
Not every child of a great House is born inside it. Lords in Age of Medieval have bastards, and the less honourable the lord, the more of them there are.
They appear on the map as adults, the child of twenty years ago who has finally taken to the road. They walk from village to village, stay a few days in each, and spend the evenings in the tavern.
You can meet one on the road or at a table and take them into your service as a companion. They bring their father's blood and their own character with them, and the father's House thinks a little better of whoever gave his child a place.
A bastard who never finds one eventually settles down and leaves the story. The ambitious ones do something else, which is the subject of next week's devlog.
Age of Medieval is developed by UnderStudio in UnderStudio 2D and published by Brasa Interactive. It releases on 17 May 2027.
Official site: https://ageofmedieval.com/
