I'm playing as the HRE and my vassal's vassal's vassal imprisoned my daughter. Is there any way for me to bail her out? Whether through money or executions or anything else?
Is it possible to bail your child out of prison?
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Think you will need to go to the diplomacy for that vassal and go to "ransom prisoner".
Have you tried that?
I tried going to diplomacy with both her and the guy who imprisoned her. Neither of them had that option.
Why don't we have a plot for this? You could do it in Sengoku. That, along with exchanging hostages could make the game more interesting.
Whose court was your daughter a member of? I think that in case of landless characters only the person whose court they are a member of can ransom them.
Yeah, we could really use more varied plots right now. Once they removed what is now a faction system all that remained was murders and fabricating claims.
Well, you can also get revoke title plots on counts who are within your de jure duchies, which can be useful, but it'd be nice if you could plot title revocations on any of your vassals.
If you go to the daughter's profile page, whoever shows as her liege is the one that can (or should be able to) ransom her.
Depending on how cheaty you feel, you could gift the liege some money, play as the liege and ransom her and then switch back. Or if you are feeling really cheaty you can swap to the person who has her locked up and just release her.
Or you could let her rot.
If someone is landed, they can only ransom themselves. If someone is not unlanded (i assume this is the case) and is not your immediate courtier, their immediate liege can ransom them. Unfortunately, their immediate liege may not *care* about them to ransom them, no matter if they have the money for ransom or not. If you don't mind a gamey tactic, you can always load as the person who is holding your daughter prisoner and try to ransom: you don't have to go through with it, but you can easily see the immediate liege to your daughter will pay for her release, or just doesn't care; you can then load back as yourself and act accordingly.
Another option is to revoke that vassal. Once he's revoked all his prisoners will be released. Because he's two levels away from you this is very awkward to do.
I think you can also extinguish his dynasty (although I've never tried this). If you wipe his family out, I believe his prisoners also are released.
If you just kill the vassal himself, if your daughter doesn't have a claim to his land, the successor tends to be more lenient and may eventually release the prisoner. However this is kind of random chance.
Another option is to revoke that vassal. Once he's revoked all his prisoners will be released. Because he's two levels away from you this is very awkward to do.
I think you can also extinguish his dynasty (although I've never tried this). If you wipe his family out, I believe his prisoners also are released.
If you just kill the vassal himself, if your daughter doesn't have a claim to his land, the successor tends to be more lenient and may eventually release the prisoner. However this is kind of random chance.
Ah, that's a very good idea. I think I'll do that since there really should be some sort of mechanic for me to ransom her anyway. And then maybe deposit 10 gold in his treasury and remove 10 gold from my own with the console to account for the ransom money. And then of course switch back to my emperor and excommunicate, imprison, and execute him for imprisoning her.