Sounds really interesting. @Oliver, when you think about this world that doesn't make sense (for everything) as these are nations that are starting over, they may be already pushed a bit towards one or another, but it wouldn't be very much because the nation only has minor influences from their past. Although NO it wouldn't be at 0 for everything as there would be some bias based on their histories and characteristics.
If you look in elementaldefs (found in C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\FE Legendary Heroes\data\English for me) there are Dynasties, they're just disabled (probably cause they're buggy as SHIT). I was wondering what they were when I found em xD so I looked em up here, gonna turn it on and see how it goes. Will edit this once I find out.
I totally agree with the potential traits (and the trait in mage or w/e that gives +25% exp) I found myself in my 3rd game turning on cheats just to bump my heroes up past that level the moment I got them just so I could go to the fun bits, which obviously bumped my heroes ahead game wise and made me much stronger than normal. I've only read the OP and a few other posts on the first page and I agree with taking these traits out. I don't like the xp sharing at all, I
I've been looking into modding, mostly cause I hate manually building roads and I can't find some auto-router, something similar to the civilization route-to mode for instance. (it also bugs me that the roads do not connect automatically to a city) we'll see how it gets on in tandem with my rl, but hey I'll try and make that work out.