Female Characters

[Horatius]

I have recently finished a paper on the role of Celtic women during this period and based on my research there is no reason why women could not play a dominant political role in Celtic society, even to the extent of leading in battle e.g. Boudicca, Medb, Cartimandua, the Vix Princess (Halstatt I know but the point still stands).

Every society has exceptions, the Rennaisance era had Queen Catherine de Medici, Joan of Arc, Queen Elizabeth, Dark Ages outnumber virtually every society in terms of warrior women thanks to the warladies of the Franks.

But the question of was it socially normal I think should be decisive.

I would love to think these ancient societies had equality, but the women you mention seem to have been an exception, like Livia, or the mother of Coriolanus (forgot her name) or Cloelia.

Even the Greeks had large numbers of powerful women (more so then one would think) but wouldn't depicting women equally in game give a very ahistorical impression of woman's liberation?

That said some ancient societies did give women remarkable degrees of rights, a few even made the husband legally a nobody in relationship to his wife, but for female emancipation that is something I know is a product of the later 19th and early 20th centuries, unfortunately not earlier.

Add to this problem a simple gameplay problem, wives, all of these powerful women were wives, Boudicca (one of your examples) was a widow (and not incharge while her husband lived) who only came to power because of an emergency where leadership and charisma rather then social place was decisive. Is it physically possible to change the way wife mechanics work ingame?

Don't get me wrong I would love to see some female characters, I even suggested spies and assasins.