Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26955524-20161126192429/@comment-25936766-20161219033637

Arkantos95 wrote: Still, that's recent enough that Jaune and Weiss, given how important their respective lineages are to one another, would know about that. Not really. There are multiple ways to explain so.

For example, that Nickel had a brother who wasn't half as famous as him; from there, we could say he married an actual Arc, and took the name, same as Jacques did with the Schnee.

Info about the brother got lost through history due to his comparative unimportance. Even if it didn't, not much was known about him, due to said comparative unimportance.

And that means Jaune knowingly hit on his 4th cousin however many times removed. And? Even marriage between 1st cousins is perfectly allowed in multiple nations in the west, including the US (varies by state though).

Between 2nd cousins? Even more globally allowed. 4th cousins? Come on, there's barely any genetic relation remaining by then, any incest is horrendously minimal.