Guess whose kingdom is going to fall apart with his death!
This are the kind of things that kill my games and make me go, enter the savegame as that guy and divide the kingdom as we discussed before. Or use cheats. It makes little sense and the game's mechanics, sometimes so restrictive, don't really force what would be plain to see for anyone: The Emperor's grasp of these new Greek lands is so tenuous that once he's gone, he'll loose most of them, and if he wants to keep Catholic control over them he must name a different king than himself.
It is vanilla, no mods, all DLCs (except sunset). It started out as a small Russian Kingdom, rising out of the Duchy of Ryzan. At one time, they had a very large Novgorod under their belt, too. I'm not sure how they became Swedish. Perhaps conquering Swedish land in the Baltic and having a landed heir tutored by a local baron/courtier. Or perhaps they married into the Swedish royal line and just happened to turn Swedish. I'll have to remember to check the title history later.I love that Volga Bulgaria -- a proper Varangian kingdom.
Is that in vanilla? How did his family come to rule it?
That's a very pretty and plausible AI Byzantium there. As opposed to the humungous blob and/or Fatimid-ridden hellhole it usually tends to become
And, of course, the Swedish capital in Germany.
Guess whose kingdom is going to fall apart with his death!
his name is Alexander, and he got the title 'the Great', it's just a funny coincidenceI'm still new and learning the game. Why do you say that? What am I not seeing?
As evil as it might seem, this is actually pretty common. Woman in this game HATE children that are not theirs.Evil Stepmother ... she agrees to kill her husbands only kid (managed to get my eldest son married with the Keisers sister (Jutta), who's 3'd in line for his lands (after Sybille and Adelheid (Celibate sister)
I'm still new and learning the game. Why do you say that? What am I not seeing?
Here's another amusing AI ERE setup; no idea if this succession will actually happen (things can always change) but I don't think I've ever seen this before.