Actually when magic is surprisingly inclusive. When families are cursed the whole *family* is cursed. Blood, marriage, adoption, it doesn’t matter as long as you’re part of the family and acknowledged in some fashion.
It depends on the phrasing of the curse. If it says "your entire family", then wife, adopted kids, even your mother-in-law's niece can be included. If the curse should be on your "bloodline", then only your descendants by blood would be effected. For example there was a book, where someone's ancestor was cursed to raise from the grave if someone among it's bloodline would break one way or other the words of an oath toward a certain goddess, which the ancestor followed, and the undead should kill everyone whom he encounter. The only exception would be his own blood, as the mentioned goddess valued family and was included in the knight's oath. As the male MC had a younger half-brother, who loathed him and conspired against him so the brother could take the inheritence, it was an indirect attack against his own brother and the ancestor came back as an undead – but when it met with the wife of the MC, it only stated that "I won't kill my own blood!" then left her alone… Only to be at the end it was strongly suggested, that she was spared as she was pregnant with another descendant of the ancestor and her death would kill the baby as well.
The curse is referring to the line of dead Grayforts. Lucas wouldn’t haunt the place after his death if the curse effected the actual bloodline anyway.
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Um, wait, Lucas isn’t actually a Greyfort by blood
Adoption is thicker than water.
Actually when magic is surprisingly inclusive. When families are cursed the whole *family* is cursed. Blood, marriage, adoption, it doesn’t matter as long as you’re part of the family and acknowledged in some fashion.
It depends on the phrasing of the curse. If it says "your entire family", then wife, adopted kids, even your mother-in-law's niece can be included. If the curse should be on your "bloodline", then only your descendants by blood would be effected. For example there was a book, where someone's ancestor was cursed to raise from the grave if someone among it's bloodline would break one way or other the words of an oath toward a certain goddess, which the ancestor followed, and the undead should kill everyone whom he encounter. The only exception would be his own blood, as the mentioned goddess valued family and was included in the knight's oath. As the male MC had a younger half-brother, who loathed him and conspired against him so the brother could take the inheritence, it was an indirect attack against his own brother and the ancestor came back as an undead – but when it met with the wife of the MC, it only stated that "I won't kill my own blood!" then left her alone… Only to be at the end it was strongly suggested, that she was spared as she was pregnant with another descendant of the ancestor and her death would kill the baby as well.
The curse is referring to the line of dead Grayforts. Lucas wouldn’t haunt the place after his death if the curse effected the actual bloodline anyway.