Legitimisation

Legitimisation is the process by which a bastard receives the rights and social status of trueborn offspring by royal decree. Bastards can receive a bill of legitimacy, allowing them to take their father's surname and formally join his House, or to take a new surname and found a new House (some bastards take new names altogether, while others add a prefix to their bastard name, such as "Highstreams").
== Known legitimised bastards ==
* Sir Balon Highstreams, formerly streams, was a bastard son of King Rylar I Boyce, and the half brother of King Joros II Boyce. Legitimised by his father but joined the Bronze Cloaks to renounce any claim he had to the throne, ensuring his older brother would become King. 
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