Islamic Marriage Alliance

[Saber02]

I'm playing as the Kwarezmian Empire, my 1st time playing as a non-catholic faction. I've noticed that they don't have princesses, and it kind of makes sense. Only problem, I've also noticed that I can't make marriage alliances between my prince and a Western nation, is this always true? I tried it with Venice and Genoa with a diplomat negotiating with the princess, and although the alliance option is there, there is no marriage alliance? Is this always true? I am not at war with any of their allies, and my prince and king are not marries, but they are in their 40s if this makes a difference. I also have about 35 regioins but only 22 generals.

My main question is, is there a way to marry the king or prince to a princess? It looks like the Islamic nations don't have princesses, so that's out for them, but is the option available with the westerners? This is my last attempt to continue the family bloodline because none of the direct descendants married.

[Kaledon]

If your prince or king are unmarried and you send a diplomat to speak with a princess, you can usually marry the princess if you are a christian nation(or lithuania.). If you are an islamic nation or the cumans/mongols, you cannot make princesses nor can you marry princesses. You are doomed to only one bloodline trait. You can modify that rather easily by changing the can_have_princess line to yes instead of no, as I recall. That'll give you princesses and allow them to marry.

[toluas]

Kaledon's right; but view it from the christian perspective: how heartless would it be to force a young princess to marry a muslim king/prince, never knowing what happens to her and forcing her to convert to Islam? The same would be true for muslim "princesses", of course.

[luciferleigh]

aside from changing the can_have_princess line to yes, you need to change the princess' skeleton type to princess in the model_strat file, keep looking for a entry that reads

type princess
skeleton diplomat

and change the diplomat to princess, if you dont do this you end up with pink diplomats as muslim princesses

edit: and if im not mistaken its not save game compatible, although i havent tried to change it mid campaign before