So this took longer than expected. Due to some IRL shit I've barely been home for more than a few hours at a time for the last 3 weeks and therefore did not have access to my notes and screenshots needed to tell my sims stories. Apologies for the delay. Anyway on to the Smith family!
We've got Guinevere, Elyan and their father Tom who started out collecting metals and gems to sell for money and worked their way up to running their blacksmith business!
Why didn't I just make them blacksmiths from the start since that's Tom's job in the show? Because I wanted more peasant families and blacksmith is a merchant job so I decided to make them work their way up.
Anyway here's their starting house:
Again not much to it since it's a peasant family but there's plenty of room for them. Also enough room for someone to camp out in the main room if need be which one Arthur Pendragon found out not long into playing this world.
Yes as it turns out Prince Arthur's relationship with his father became so strained at one point that Uther kicked him out of the castle and he sought refuge with his good friends Gwen and Elyan (the game actually did this on its own while I was playing a different household, I had no part in making this happen but I loved it and decided to roll with it. We'll get into the repercussions of this when I cover the Pendragons)
While Arthur stayed with them he helped them forage and collect things to sell, gaining a new understanding of how the lower classes live and their struggles. He also had a bit of a flirtatious relationship with, surprisingly, Elyan but that fizzled and faded out when he met Merlin and Elyan met Percy. Arthur and Merlin fell hard and fast and before long Arthur moved in with Merlin and his family.
Elyan and Percy moved at a slower pace, taking a bit more time to get to know each other but it didn't take much longer for Percy to propose and for Elyan to move in with him. We'll cover the family they started next
Around the time Elyan moved out Lancelot proposed to Gwen
They'd been having their own romance going since about halfway through Arthur's stay with the Smiths and now that the other dramas in their households were settled it was time for them to tie the knot.
Lancelot moved in with Gwen and Tom bringing enough money to allow them to expand their home, giving Tom his own room and the new couple some privacy. It also allowed them to rank up from the peasant class to yeomen, bringing them closer to Tom's dream of starting up a blacksmith shop. The added income that Lancelot brought was also much needed as it wasn't long before Gwen was pregnant with their first child, a daughter named Anna.
Everything seemed to be going well for the family, which as we all know means tragedy is just around the corner. Tom got sick and sadly died. Shortly after Gwen found out she was pregnant again, this time with triples! 2 girls Elise and Claudia, and a boy Andrey. While Gwen and Lancelot were thrilled about their expanding family they struggled to take care of 4 young children and maintain a steady income. They needed a helping hand and one arrived just in time.
Lancelot's long-lost brother Leith tracked him down. They both had believed the other had died in the attack that destroyed their village and led to Lancelot moving to Camelot. That is until Leith heard word of a Lancelot matching his brother's description marrying into the family that housed the disinherited Prince Arthur. He traveled to Camelot to see if his suspicion was true and found his brother and his beautiful family. Lancelot and Leith were overjoyed to see each other alive and well again. Leith moved in so he could reconnect with his brother and help out his growing family.
Within a week of his stay Leith found another reason to stick around in Camelot. A knight by the name of Sebastian De Poitiers (based off of Bash from Reign btw. Leith is also based on the Reign character)
The two have an ongoing courtship and are adorable together.
With Leith's help, the family has been able to increase their income, expand their home to accommodate their growing number, build a smithy attached to the house, and fulfill Tom's dream of starting a blacksmith business with a rank up to the merchant class! We catch up with our story with the family welcoming its latest member, baby Gabriel.
And here is the family now
And their new merchant home complete with a forge, separate rooms for Leith and Anna, and a nursery
Tagging those who asked:
@tansyuduri @building-camelot