Fantasy settings are so funny because anyone could show up at anytime and be like “hi I’m your lost bastard son” and you’d have to take them at their word because DNA testing doesn’t exist yet.
Series about a traveling mage who has figured out how to do paternity testing and goes from village to village staging a live audience Lauren Lake level shit show
“Mine divinations have foretold...that Goodman John...BE NOT THE CHILD’S FATHER!”
*Goodman John breakdances while Lady Elizabeth flees in shame and the hurdy-gurdy man turns up*
Anais Davaux keeps tailing the mage with an ‘urgent summons’ from Abnur Tharn.
Fun fact: clerics can do this if they use their ability to commune. they can simply ask their deity as a yes or no question.