Witchy storyline went HORRIBLY! [Black Dynasty]
Remember the witchy storyline?
Well, it happened.
For a while it was great. Until it wasn't.
So what happened is...
William, Gwennlian and Milo aged into proper teens. They were known as "The Merry Three" because they were always together and always up to some mischief, even though two of them were clearly closer to each other than to the third one...
But then, on one random morning, Gwennlian showed up at William's place, claiming that Milo, her betrothed, disappeared into the night.
William and Gwennlian started their journey on a quest to find him, traveling and living in the middle of nowhere for roughly one in-game year.
But as their hopes got smaller, their bond grew fonder...
Feeling even more desperate and as though she were betraying him, Gwennlian begged William one last time to find Milo, no matter the cost.
And so William did. Without her knowing, he found the witch's house, determined to ask for her favor.
Her only condition? For him to give up his firstborn son to her once he reached marriageable age. The reason? Unknown to William, but in reality it was tied to an ancient prophecy. Born three hundred years earlier, the witch Morgan knew her fate would intertwine with that of an extraordinary family: the Blacks. From the very beginning, she had known that her magical legacy would continue through them, and now, at last, she had found the family she had been waiting for.
As soon as William accepted her proposal, she brought Milo back.
But Gwennlian couldn’t lie to him. Not like this. Not after spending a year with William and realizing what he truly meant to her. So, she confessed everything to Milo, breaking his heart and shattering both his friendship with Gwennlian and with William.
Even though they had lost Milo as a friend, they knew they had saved him as a person, and that was enough. They could be happy now. Just as the Great Famine brought England to its knees, William and Gwennlian got married.
But then this happened...
... And this also happened.
Which had fairly never happened to me in ANY of my saves, so I was left deciding what to do of this storyline. Historically, it would be VERY rare for Gwennlian to still be able to bare children; still, when I checked her fertility stats, she still had 15%. Low, undoubtedly, but not exactly infertile. And so I thought... I still have a witch.
Heartbroken by her loss, Gwennlian also sought out the witch, unaware that William had done the same a year earlier. She didn’t know that her firstborn had already been promised to the same witch. Clever and calculating, the witch Morgan never mentioned William’s oath to her; instead, she told Gwennlian that if she wanted to have children again, she would have to give her first daughter to her, so that she could raise the girl as her apprentice. In this way, Morgan not only secured proper heirs through a Black (the son), but also ensured her spiritual and magical legacy would continue through an apprentice. Desperate to bear children, Gwennlian accepted.
... And now Gwennlian is pregnant with twins, one boy and one girl (I checked through MCCC). Both promised to Morgan. Which is tragic. (But we love Morgan).
Honestly, I was very unsure of what to do and what could be the new negotiations with the witch. So I made Gwennlian and William woohoo before meeting her again just to see if Gwennlian would actually get pregnant with such a low fertility rate and lo and behold, twins?!?! I swear I've never had twins so easily in the game, so I was stunned. After that, the idea of Morgan claiming the girl as well came naturally. I'm still a bit shocked by Gwennlian being pregnant with twins with such a low fertility rate honestly, but I'll check William's rate next time I'll open the game, haha.
But the thing is: it's 1315 now. Will Gwennlian be able to carry a twin pregnancy through the Great Famine? And will William and Gwennlian ever tell each other about how they both promised their children to a witch? How will they handle giving up their daughter as a child and their son as a young man? I guess we'll find that out soon.
Family tree: Black Dynasty.