In-Game Births

Looking to add to your character's family? You’ve navigated to the right place!

In-Game births and children in Amaranthine RPG are free to create, but come with a few limitations. Due to how slowly time moves in-game, if your character becomes pregnant and gives birth in-game, their child will remain very young throughout the game, as children age the same as all other characters, and the game does not feature a system to quick-age them.

## Having Kids In-Game

If you’d like your character to have a child be born in-game, please start by noting the group. You may freely pick whether your character is just in the beginning of their pregnancy (meaning the children will be born about 4-5 real months from now) or at a later point, up to having the children be born immediately after sending the note.

Use this template:

* **Title: In-Game Pregnancy**
	+ **Parent 1 (the one pregnant):** Insert character’s name and link
	+ **Parent 2 (biological father):** Insert character’s name and link
	+ **Number of children:** 1-2
	+ **Breed/s of children:** May only include breeds present in the parents.
	+ **When children are born:** Real world timeline for when the kids will be born; basically whether you want them now, or if you plan to rp your character expecting for some time.

At least one of the parents should be an active player character. The other parent may be an NPC, but needs to have at least a breed.

If everything is okay with your request, it will be approved, and the children will be given an official, in-game birthday based on your request.

The child character may be either a PC, or an NPC. We recommend that if your character has NPC children, you create full NPC sheets for them.

### Aging

Child characters age the same as all other characters. Amaranthians age similarly to humans, but have accelerated early childhoods. This means your new character would be a toddler, and remain this way for quite a while.

For more details on aging, please check **here.**

## Child Characters Born Before Game

If your character has a child that was born before the game is set (before year 1250), you do not need to send us a note, and may create the child like any other character. These children still age the same as adult characters, and as such are not recommended as first characters. There are a few rules regarding child characters brought in this way:

* This goes without saying, but you need permission from the parent/s players to make them a child.
* They do not need to have in-game parents, although having at least one is recommended
* If their parent/s are real characters, note that the child can only have breeds present in their parents
* The child may be any age, as long as it makes sense in relation to the potential PC parent
	+ This means that a character who is 20 should not have a 13 year old child.
	+ We would heavily prefer all parents were at least 18 years older than their oldest child. Teen pregnancy plotlines are ok, but are treated as such in universe.

### Retconning Children In

It is generally possible to retcon an older child into the life of an adult character who did not previously have one. However, this requires that you *change your character’s backstory* accordingly, and resubmit them with these revisions. The changes should be as minor as possible to retain the original feel and story of the character.

The child character may be a PC or NPC - same procedure applies.