Recently in a game where I was playing the Doukessa of Epirus (weak claim to the Byzantine Empire) and the current Basileus is her ex-lover (and his heir is their son) A civil war breaks out between a good part of the Empire and the Basileus and being the good citizen she is, Doukessa Eurydike supports the Basileus. She's leading an army against those darn rebels..and BAM..the next thing she realizes she's imprisoned. And with pretty much her entire court and most of her subjects. And a ton of other Byzantine notables and their courts, families etc.
That was definitely a huge WTF moment. I was playing PB and VIET mods with that one and was going from a 867 start date. It occured in the 900's or so.
The Basileus picked up the Cruel trait event went as far as to torture poor Eurydike, relieving her of a hand (maimed trait). He refused to release her so the Basileus' liquidation was arranged (succeeded) And guess what HER OWN SON WON'T RELEASE HER EITHER !
In a fit of filicide, Eurydike arranges her own son's murder too. Which succeeds too. (he also picked up after Dad..acquiring the Cruel trait too) Seeing that she was about third in line for the throne and wasn't being released by her own son's half-sibiings ahead of her in the line of successions, more murders are arranged.
So here we are. Eurydike the One handed, Basilessa of the Byzantine Empire. No thanks to an ungrateful and quite dead lover and equally as ungrateful and quite dead son by her dead lover.
The most annoying thing ? having to manually release EACH of the 170+ prisoners..I didn't see a Release All option for them. Grr !
That was definitely a huge WTF moment. I was playing PB and VIET mods with that one and was going from a 867 start date. It occured in the 900's or so.
The Basileus picked up the Cruel trait event went as far as to torture poor Eurydike, relieving her of a hand (maimed trait). He refused to release her so the Basileus' liquidation was arranged (succeeded) And guess what HER OWN SON WON'T RELEASE HER EITHER !
In a fit of filicide, Eurydike arranges her own son's murder too. Which succeeds too. (he also picked up after Dad..acquiring the Cruel trait too) Seeing that she was about third in line for the throne and wasn't being released by her own son's half-sibiings ahead of her in the line of successions, more murders are arranged.
So here we are. Eurydike the One handed, Basilessa of the Byzantine Empire. No thanks to an ungrateful and quite dead lover and equally as ungrateful and quite dead son by her dead lover.
The most annoying thing ? having to manually release EACH of the 170+ prisoners..I didn't see a Release All option for them. Grr !
