1: I understand its for political purposes but if you don't want a "boost" in political power with one race after beating the game a with each princess and you want a challenge in case you beat the game at maximum difficulty so you have to work harder for the respect of each race, maybe marry a princess later. Perhaps even get a chance to work with each race a little bit first before finally making a choice.
3: Wow, that is a decent number though I hope that is not mostly mercenaries, though the mercenaries sound pretty interesting, like Starcraft 2. I am interested in seeing more units as development progresses.
Also, a new question, will there be a beta test coming up at some point? I played Divinity 2 when it came out and though there were some fun aspects to the game (dragon form was AWESOME!) the game was riddled with bugs and glitches that were game-breaking. I would like some certainty that the game is not going to have so many issues though everything looks amazing at this point in time.
Oh, and how is the Remastered version of Divinity 2 in the "Dragon knight saga" copy? been debating on getting it though I still have the "Ego Draconus" version.