This update adds new feature to the game - marriage between your heroes. This feature has been planned since the very beginning, but was implemented just now as a milestone towards something else.
So what exactly marriage in Totem Tribe II: Jotun is?
Right now marriage is either: a) quite powerful, but also very tricky boost to use; or b) nice little gimmick
Getting Started
There is a new building, called Wedding Palace unlocked under Aesthetics technology now which allows two heroes - male and female, to form marriage.
In order to marry someone, you must participate in a wedding - gather in a town that has at least level 1 of Wedding Palace. 4 Heroes must be present - soon to be husband and a wife, but also at least 2 guests / witnesses. Each of the fiancees must have a wedding ring present in their inventiry. Wedding Ring can be crafted by Blacksmith or Idol of Crafting when Wedding Palace is built.
Once married, your spouse will be visible in player info screen together with your wedding photo that captures the appearance of all heroes present in the town by the time of wedding.
Upgrading the Wedding Palace unlocks ability to craft wedding outfit like the dress, veil, suit, etc. It will also make arc of flowers bigger and richer and will allow more guests present on the photo.
Benefits
The marriage allows to provide significant bonuses tho the husband hero when his wife is reinforcing the same town or fighting in the same battle. The bonuses are one-directional, thus it is up to husband to court the wife and motivate her in order to receive bonuses. The bonuses grow every day spent in marriage and reset, when divorced, however maximum limit of the bonuses is capped by distance, so try to marry someone who is close to you. Marriage across continent will make bonuses capped at 1% of their potential, so don't do it.
Dignity (Nobility Title)
The biggest bonus gains are achieved when both husband and a wife imrove their dignity, but unfortunately this is a part of Expansion Victory and not yet implemented. Those would come in future updates. However you can improve your title from Commoner to Noble now, when completing tutorial quest in Herald's Home.
Conclusion
Basically, right now marriage mechanics is just a gimmick, but it was a required step towards Expansion Victory, because in Expansion Victory you have to grow your Dignity up to become Knight, Count, Price, King, and eventually - God-Emperor. Main requirement to grow it is the number of towns in your domain. However, being married means the towns of your spouse are counted as a part of your domain for the sake of Dignity requirements. This makes Expansion Victory - a co-operative victory of sorts which can only be reached together with similarily determined player. Our next major milestone is to implement the Dignity titles and Expansion Victory itself.
Remember - the Marriage is a social feature, so players can role-play the details behind the scenes the way the see fit. We have only implemented the formal part.
Let us know about your thoughts and impressions of the marriage and this update.
