Magical bloodline trait

I'm almost certain it won't be a CAS trait. I'm expecting something similar to the Sulani Mana or Father Winter's Baby traits, which may help a sim learn spells and and become a spellcaster easier without them necessarily having the spellcaster life-state.

I think it will be a 'hidden trait' all witches get. If they get children, their offspring might also get the trait which makes them a witch when they grow up to a teenager without having to do anything for it.

"darrenfroggy;c-17210506" wrote:

"floridameerkat;c-17210405" wrote:
It seems like it would make more sense to have it be an actual trait that we can use to fill one of the three slots. It would allow us to create magical sims without them needing to be born in-game, and it would be great for story-telling purposes (i.e. Harry Potter retellings where he's the only magical one in the household).

Hm, not I'm wondering. I know we'll be able to create Teen and up SIms as Spellcasters in Sims, but if the Magical Bloodline trait is only an inherited one (and kinda like the Father WInter one), then it wouldn't show for children or toddlers created in CAS
But then, if a child's parents are created in CAS first as Spellcasters, shouldn't the genetics option automatically assign that trait to any of their children/toddlers?

I was thinking more for if players wanted to create magical children or toddlers in CAS without, but don't necessarily want them to have magical parents, but I guess we should be able to just create spellcasters of any age, like we can with all occults, so who knows. It could work as either version of the trait. I think it's a bit strange that they haven't clarified yet what type of trait it is, but then I'm not sure when they gave us more info on the Father Winter's baby trait either.

It seems unlikely that the trait is similar to the vampire trait, because otherwise it would be probably called “spellcaster”, besides the fact that there was no special mention to such a trait prior to the release of the vampires GP.

I may be wrong, but, from what I remember, the gurus described the trait as favoring your sim to become a spellcaster later in life, which is logically incompatible with choosing the life state right off CAS.

It must be something else. Maybe it makes the spellcaster more powerful, gives him/her an edge in duels or a larger energy pool to draw power from. It may also just be another path for becoming a spellcaster, but with special interactions or animations.

Trait like vampire? Um... Their called Lifestates?

"Mindofy;d-964869" wrote:
Does anyone know if the new trait is going to be a "trait" how vampire/alien/mermaid is a trait, or will it be one of the three you can choose? I know this might be a dumb question, as it is probably the first one, but I want to make sure before I age the sim I want to use up and fill all his traits.

Definitely not a dumb question, it could go either way. I am going to guess a normal trait but don't be mad if it's not?

> @WolfNate said:
> Trait like vampire? Um... Their called Lifestates?

Yes they are but they are also a hidden trait. Not all traits are visible in the game. Many like what handed your sim is, your sims age, gender, likes or hates fruit cake, occult status (like say vampire), and more are tracked as a traits and can be cheated/modded as such even if the game hides them from view. All lifestates ARE traits in the code.

there are two hidden trait for vampires, occult_vampire and occult vampire manifested. about this one though, i think it's going to be a gameplay trait, like the reward ones. it was said it can be used to turn sims into spellcasters later in life

I think it would make sense to have it as either an entirely hidden trait, a sort of hidden trait (like Father Winter's Baby) or a trait that takes up a slot, but if the trait is completely hidden, why would they bother announcing it?

Thanks @SimGuruNinja!?