This is so funny! Divan is adorable, no womder the ladies are into him :D
To advocate the BuildNewcrest challenge, I find that I've been able to inject plenty of storylines into it within the scope of the challenge :) In fact, you have a lot of free reign because you get to decide on their third trait and their aspiration. Sure, there's the generational task you need to complete, but if you found it really restrictive you could just swap out generations and do them in a different order as needed - I've thought of that a fair amount, but so far the tasks have been working well for the particular heirs.