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I got the three Holy Sites in Scandinavia, but the other two are definetly out of th question, since they are controlled by powerful Karling blobs that can crush me in an instant. Right now the moral authority is like 25, and I need 50; trying to reform before the Catholics go crazy with Holy Wars and Crusades, so sometime before 1000 I guess.
 
County conquests give you 1% MA each and so does looting temple holdings of other religions.
 
Make sure that holy war declared against you or your co-religionists are won, join their wars if you have to.
Make sure that prepared invasions by you or your co-religionists are won, join their wars if you have to.
Do alot of county conquests (I would recomend conquoring pagan counties since you are in scandinavia, you won't be able to do that for a while without taking alot of attrition once you go reformed pagan).
Raid the temples of other religions (siege them down).
Wait for negative modifiers to your moral authority to go away.
 
I guess I'll go conquer all those juicy catholics in Ireland.

...or not. Those Irish Catholic revolts are brutal, at least I didn't lose any moral authority (now on 41) for losing an entire kingdom. And now the British Isles are purged of norse and there's a -20% malus for Lost Holy wars there. I'll just blow all my cash into trying to get Padernborn and that other county.
 
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It depends who you want to start as, but whoever you do it isn't hard to quickly start blobbing. Choose the become king of whatever ambitions and do that. Once you're a kingdom subjugate any other entire kingdom that's been formed, so that you're effectively a double king. If you start as the duke of ostatlend (however it is spelled) and upon becoming the king of Norway subjugated Sweden, you should now control 2 holy sites. Work on getting the third in Denmark through either your heir's subjugation of even a fabricated claim. You can also do a conquest of Zeeland if East Francia has a revolt, especially since as norse you should have a huge retinue. Buy only archers for the number and upon declaring the conquest land them and assault. It should tick pretty quickly. You should probably have enough moral authority now, but if your norse brethren have been sucking just do a lot of conquests of slavic/romuvan lands and you should be fine. Help your norse brothers if they get holy warred.
 
true, but what you can do is subjugate without creating the kingdom. More realistically though, what I always do is limit the number of heir I have by not having concubines and upon succession I always murder my brother and inherit they're land. There's no opinion penalty as norse for being a kinslayer, from that I remember.
 
Since I'm stuck at gavelkind.

Stick to one kingdom and try not to breed too much. Acquire duchies and hand them to your non-heirs (one county and duchy removes them from gavelkind) to game with gavelkind, though arguably this is bit easier with Romuva than Norse as norse duchies tend to be huge (problem with succession crisises). Grabbing Ireland is always an option to land your useless sons. Then just fabricate claims on that inland county and hope for rebellions to let you grab it and/or the coastal holy site, while raiding temples galore. Ireland is also good for this plus it's easy to conquer a coastal tile after you first raid and pillage it, then declare war.
 
Once you're a can create kingdom title, ask people around you to become vassals. That's what I did as Norway. Was surprised how eager other Norse rulers were to be vassalized...
I even vassalized some counts that were de-jure Swedish without bloodshed.
I'd suggest taking out bigger petty kingdoms as soon as possible, if you want to form Scandinavia with your first ruler. Then you will have Norse holy sites on your lands, which will allow you to reform, and then Holy War everything that surrounds you.
To not worry about huge revolts you can grant independence to inconveniently located conquered lands.