1117-1118
Well I guess it's back to being independent for me.
And back to not being horribly in debt! And unlike Stefan's father, he did not become a heretic nor excommunicated! Hooray!
And to show off my new independence I get an ally. He follows me around in wars and stuff.
Whoa, look at this kid! 10 base stewardship and 8 base intrigue? My wouldn't it be a shame if he died of a debilitating illness before he reached manhood, much less inherit the dynasty after years of manipulating the succession laws so that I can have a duke with good stats for once.
And as the super-Byzantine superforce faces off against a very small, quite familiar-looking Fatimid army, all the power in Acre has been taken from the non-clerics and given to the clerics, who are Christian now apparently, as doing this will speed up the conversion event that I so desire.
Why, yes glorious battle. In which he was leading the very same army that we had defeated in battle just months ago, against our former lieges. Yes. Glorious.
And seeing as how Stefan's old wife died during the last update, he resorts to Russian mail-order brides!
But in medieval times the process is quite different, as
they pay money to
him!
And while the moneylenders got us out of debt, which is good, they also wiped out our piety, which is bad. Which is why I am creating a bishopric. However to do that one must appoint a court member with an ecclesiastical education to the post, and the only man that fits that bill is one Rudolf von Habsburg, the schizophrenic chronically-depressed money-demander. Surely nothing
bad could come out of this...
Surely nothing terribly and horrifically destructive to the realm could come out of this...
