The Legacy of the Vogelius Dynasty - The Rising Raven

Attalus said:

Bloodeagle for the Hospitaller !

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Its fun how the Hospatiler is ALWAYS THERE. Whenever I try to do anything they specifically pop up to defend my neighbors. So I'm gonna try and evolve on that story. Its rarely Santiago or Templars, it is always specifically only Hospatiler fighting against my family with extreme fury and dedication.

Attalus said:

Well about the Fylkir, the best for me would be some kind of cardinal election but with the Fylkir always being a Vogelius. Don't know if it's possible but well just my two cents

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Yeah from the SA forum where this AAR is also going on I got a really good suggestion.

Goðar, which might be what they based the Fylkir on (I don't know what you get up to in that office!) were the secular and religious leaders of their local communites and were "elected" in a similar way to Big men in the south, in that they only held power for so long as they were successful. Free men follow the strongest after all.

Todays Allsherjargoði of the modern Reformed Norse faith is just decided amongst the laypeople as the one most people agree is the best candidate for it; the elective Monarchy system in CK2 is close enough to what it was like back then, although it also had the fact that like in Tanistry even the lowest freeman was allowed a voice.

Actually, in CK2 having the Fylkir follow a Norse tanistry thing might not be a bad idea; it would mean recognition of the Vogelius dynasty for founding it but also allow folks to voice what they will. (No idea with EU4, haven't gotten it yet. )

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So will use the college mechanic to create a system where all the norse rulers can vote on who will be the next fylkir among themselves.

Believing in the righteous of our cause, several commoners join our banners to enforce our claim to not put Scanian troops on far away land in Poland that. The Jarl decides to split his forces, sending a large amount to seize Fyn as to control the entire sound and making it much harder for the Danes to maneuver. The second detachment of the Army is sent north to siege the capital of King Ernst.

The Royalists seeing the power of Jarl Gnupa much more dangerous than the threat of Lithuania on the polish lands decides to mount their army onto ships and send them back to fight in Halland, leaving the Polish nobles to fend for themselves against the hordes of pagans invading their land.



The army lands from the sea and confident in their superior numbers engage the heathens, instead of relying on skirmishes they charge in to close quarters too early. However this turns into a slaughter outside the walls of Varberg, the Scanian troops have higher quality, more focus on heavy and well armored troops, their more skilled commanders take their advantage to the fullest.

It doesn't take long before the entire danish army is decimated.



Gnupa goes on to secure his position in the Danish isles with no opposition left, and the Lithuanians charge in to the Polish land with ease. In the meantime, the first revolt in the Holy Roman Empire start, with several nobles rising up against the emperor's rule, asking for lowered interference from their emperor.

The education continues for Gnupa's only child, Sigrid, and she turns out to be a diligent child who wish to fulfill her father's expectations of her.

Ernst of Denmark furious in the betrayal of the Vogelius family completely ignores the Polish land and rallies his troops to siege down Rügen. Gnupa dispatches an army with more than five thousand men to engage the small force of Denmark trying to siege down his land and they are easily eradicated.



The faith of Skåne has been slowly but steadily been converting towards Norse and with the constant victories over the god on the cross the majority of the population switches over to the blief of Odin, Thor and Frey. King Ernst now desperate and with constant pressure from his Polish nobles he acquires the aid of the Knights Hospatilier who rush to take back the capital seat of Denmark. The battle is quickly over and lost by the pagans, they rally in Skåne, with the other armies and amount to almost ten thousand men strong waiting for the holy order to charge at them, which happens sooner than later. Even though double their size the battle is far from decided.



The troops manages to keep the charging knights at bay, allowing them to use skirmish tactics by ambushing them and raining arrows upon them at the fields of Skåne. They don't inflict heavy losses on the knights but the confusion and frustration teared at their morale. Eventually the Scanian troops got caught and a big battle ensued. The vikings now with upper hand in organization and morale slowly but steadily pushes back the enemy on the left flank until it collapses, then turning to give aid to the middle flank.

Victory is achieved, however not without losing a great deal of enemies themselves. The Holy orders of Christendom is indeed a dangerous tool if you are at the receiving end.



Several nobles on the border regions of Poland feel abandoned by their lord, who completely abandoned them in the war against their neighboring pagans, have risen up against their king making a bad situation even worse. However King Ernst receives a break, the Estrid's pockets run deep and they are well connected. As such they manage to persuade previously neutral parties to join in under their banner to fight against the Vogelius armies.



The new army is captured and surrounded outside Getinge in Halland, they were put together just to be shortly thereafter decimated. A few months later an opportunity to smash the Knights Hospatilier yet again presents itself. However the tear from every battle with the Knights are starting to show and even the big reserves of the Vogelius family are starting to dwindle, being left with just above four thousand men in the army after loosing about two thousand to the holy order even though the Scanian army had the numbers and the leaders.



But on the horizon looms a day of sadness, the end of an old chapter in the chronicle of Vogelius...

DKM said:

This seems a lot like a battle of Quality vs Quantity. You have Quality leaders but they have more men as well as the advantage of being on the defensive.

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Yeah, I also have an economical advantage. Their advantage with Quantity most often come from the holy orders.

I've taken Rügen, just waiting for the event to pop.

The Chieftess of Desmond dies in the dungeons of King Ernst of Denmark, the last of Vogelius in Ireland and the end of Karl's legacy, how Karl and Grim fought for that piece of land over 40 years ago and now in an instant gone. Now her child Milzas, a Romuvan Prussian of the dynasty von Marienburg reigns in the castle of Dunasead. The Danish king eventually falls under the pressure agrees to surrender to the Lithuanian King, as such Gnupa agrees to a white peace with Ernst. His demesne needing to recover from the war, and the Swedish soldiers amassing to conduct a holy war against Skåne, Gnupa is more than happy with having achieved his first goal and does not spiral down to greed to press more demands on the Danish king.



Peace has yet come to Denmark, our Jarl's second child is born a son named Jørgen who becomes Gnupa's primary heir. Halsten of Stenkilling, the Drunkard King of Sweden conquers the Norwegian crown through a claim. It seems like the Piast rule of Sweden was quite short-lived as the Stenkillings are back on now both the Swedish and Norwegian throne. Maybe the poles shouldn't have betrayed their allies and given them Øland as was promised.

We also see the rise of a confederacy of Burgher's, german merchants, in the city of Bremen.



An exiled Norse brethren in the court of Gnupa has finally managed to amount enough wealth, troops and support to press his claim for his families lost land in the most northern parts of Sweden and we wish him all the luck we can give.

And the Pope decides yet another crusade, however this one on Andalusia to for once finish the reconquista and bring all of Iberia under catholic rule.



In order to try and secure the continued support of the vassal in Desmond, Gnupa betroths his beloved diligent daughter to the son of Desmond's chieftain. Many many years pass with not much of interest happening. However as years pass, people grow older and at the age of 43 in the year 1178, Ellinor Karlsdatter dies and Gnupa needs to find a new wife. However not really keen on marrying another cousin, he decides to marry Malmfrid, one of the members of the Frille dynasty. She proves to be quite fertile and within a year she is with child.



The Crusade of Andalusia is declared a success, most of Iberia is under Catholic rule. A new catholic Andalusian noble family has taken over the south-east part of Iberia known as Murcia, but with the crusade leaving most of the land gains to the Knights of Caltava by a decree from the pope, it conveniently limits their possible expansion.

Malmfrid later gives birth to a healthy baby boy with the name Gotfred.



Gnupa puts most of his focus on management of the realm and improvement of what he already possesses. Its certainly a strength and holds many merits. But after 5 years of peace the Vikings of Trelleborg becomes unruly, fearing they will never get the opportunity to die with glory in battle, to not be fetched by the Valkyries and to feast in Valhalla with their deities. Gnupa budges eventually and makes sure every housecarl and shieldmaiden of his realm would hear of his decree. An humongous horde is to amass at Trelleborg, and they will march on Sweden, they will take back the land that Odin once reigned as king. Upland shall be retaken, the church be burnt down and the temple of Uppsala rebuilt and the Norse faith reborn!

The old days of Ragnar Lodbrok and his sons shall e remembered by the bishoprics of Britain and northern France, the world shall know that the Vikings have returned stronger, and deadlier!



As warriors from all over Scandinavia starts traveling towards Trelleborg, the Polish-Danish King and the Lithuanian Pagan ruler clash together again and Scanian merchantmen traveling along the Baltic coast tell of battles with over thirty thousand men!

Sigrid eventually comes of age and the betrothal is honored with the Marienburg family. However Gnupa is sad to see his quick daughter leave his court.



Even though so distant from any other Catholic realm, the Kingdom of Jerusalem remains strong and they still have a Salian on their throne. The duke of Småland decides its fit to try and take Halland of the Danish King with his realm being pressed on from all sides. Another son is born to Gnupa, this one with the name of Harald.



Now with enough men gathered in Trelleborg, Gnupa of Vogelius claims the throne of Sweden, the crown of Odin and the Temple of Uppsala as his own! By the gods we shall win for the memory of every brother and sister they've hung! To glory or to Valhalla, today Odin rides with us!



And as such, 20 000 Housecarls and Shieldmaidens start their march.....

The armies assemble, they pick up their weapons and shields and start their march, first heading north and face the Smålander army trying to take Halland, they are swept aside quickly by the horde marching through their land becoming a mere side note of the war. It doesn't take long however before scouts report of the Knights Hospatiler start coming in, the holy orders of Christendom are quick to summon their young-men to fight against Gnupa and his horde. While waiting for the great first battle that signal the start of the true start of the war, a small company of Finish soldiers are sent to the Swedish heartland to pillage and loot, hurting the King's financials.



The middle flank is lead by Milzas von Marienburg of Desmond, who has grown to show himself the finest military strategist in the realm of Vogelius. He takes the choice to charge the much lighter armed enemy, crushing them quickly as such freeing up the seven thousand men in the middle flank to support the others. The battle ends in a devastating defeat for the enemy, and with a big prize for the victors...

Grandmaster Idwal of the Knights Hospatiler has been captured and now rots in the dungeons of Trelleborg!



The Swedes and their allies tries again to stop the march north, deep in the forests of Småland another battle ensues. However this time the Scanians weren't prepared and the reinforcements to the battle come one by one, as such an overwhelming victory could not be achieved.



The battle was narrow, but it was won, and a powerful Swedish nobleman perished with his men, fighting bravely until the end like any proper northerner would. To recuperate and reorganize Gnupa orders the complete siege of the Småland Duchy to gain control of the borderlands and weaken one of the current enemies of Skåne. The war for Halland is still raging. While occupying, small forces from Smålands allies comes to try and save the Duke.

King Ernst of Denmark once again allow Jews into the Kingdom again.



The war seems already won, the Swedish king already willing to accept a favorable peace. However the blood is boiling among the chieftains and the commanders. They want more, all of Sweden is not enough, they want to dye the entire peninsula red with Christian blood. Soon enough Sweden's ally, the King of Scotland, had arrived to save them. Gnupa is taken by surprise, having not realized Sweden had such a powerful ally his troops are scattered in Småland as the Scots attack them.

Gnupa tries his best to consolidate his forces but it is not enough. Odin, or whatever war god the Romuvan has, seemed to smile upon chieftan Milzas saves the battle and manages to give victory at a great cost to both sides.



With renewed ranks of Holy orders and Swedish levies, Milzas order a fallback to the island of Öland and to dig in preparing for the knights to storm the beaches. Some might have said Milzas was a coward, but this move saved the army and gave victory, even as four thousand more men came to help the Holy orders from both Scotland and Småland, the well prepared defenders could secure victory against overwhelming odds. Milzas decision making was not grabbed by fury, pride or religious cause, he relied on his calm mind to come up with a solution against overwhelming odds. Gnupa entrusted the army to him and with his command, he made fearless and brutal Vikings into a disciplined force that could fight three times their own amount. Even though as a heathen and foreigner and considered somewhat of his father as a lowborn usurper, he had Gnupa's respect for his skills and accomplishments.

However even granted with Milzas skills, many dies including the Guardian of Gnupa's son. As the year of 1185 sees its first day, the Valkyries collect Pridbjørn for his departure to Valhalla. The first nobility casualty of Skåne in a long time.

this chapter is big, so its split into three parts!

With barely a victory secured, Milzas orders a forced push against the fleeing holy orders over the waters to not let them rest and reorganize themselves. No matter how much troops are killed, there seems to always be more Catholic warriors to replace the ones lost. So in order to make sure that the Swedes are properly crippled the army are set to siege Uppsala. The war then takes it second noble casualty, this time of Gnupa's own kin. Chief Yngvar of Vogelius, unce to Gnupa, dies from a crippling wound caused by the heavy fighting in southern Sweden.



More holy warriors assemble themselves to try and assure the Swedish capital remains free from heathen hands control. But as before, Milzas makes due with the few forces he has, even though reinforced with Bulgarian mercenaries it is just barely enough. The Swedes are pushed back and flee north to a standing holy order army waiting to reinforce them, Milzas does not intend to give them a moment of rest and is iin pursuit after the fleeing soldiers.

Alas, in the ensuing battle the mighty General, Milzas of the Prussians fell to the swords of the Knights of Santiago. By some counts he was an old man, fifty-winters he had seen; his hair greyed, his face lined with the years. His pride ensured he would die fighting, relentlessly, refusing to allow some child who had barely sprouted his first beard to claim his life. A Knight charged, glanced off his shield as the General buried his hatchet into the skull of the boy playing at war, but alaso he was pierced from behind by the shining steel of another Crusader. His blood coursing from his wound, he swung his axe with a mighty roar and cleaved the Knight's head from his shoulders. The other combatants stood weary, cautious of this beast of a man, they hesitated but pressed their advantage. Milvas fought on, claiming more of these "Holy Knights", though he took many more wounds and his strength waned. With one last roar, he charged headlong into a group of the Knights who surrounded one of his own, toppling the group and allowing his man to escape. Alas he did not then rise from his feet, and the surrounding Knights each bore down upon him with their shining blades like the sharpened teeth of a great dragon.

With Milzas death, he builds a legacy that is remembered throughout the northern lands, the "Patient Wolf". In the years to come, he will be remembered as the foreigner who fought for his lord with all his might and his name is honored in the temples and a verse as in the old Sagas are written to keep his memory.



With the great commander dead, every soldier counts for the Scanian army. Now being forced to be much more careful the army starts moving south to try and get the upper-hand defensively. However the old tactic that Milzas used is not as effective as when he lead the army. It gave him his nickname, by being cautius and patient he would get the enemy to attack you when you were as the strongest, defeat them swiftly and then spring into a rage filled chase, striking down them before they could reform their ranks, never letting the broken soldiers rest, like how a pack of wolfs would hunt their prey. This time it worked but it cost much more men that the Scanians could afford.

Some good news at least comes as Uppsala falls, the clergy slaughtered and the church burnt. The supply of vikings to fight for the cause is starting to dry up, luckily the Swedes are running out of levies, mercenaries and holy orders to use themselves-



The Scottish King tries another surge, charging the last remnants of his army into the Vikings ranks, however the defense is tougher than he thought and he end up himself captured by the Scanians, sent to rot in the dungeons of Trelleborg with the Grandmaster of Knights Hospatiler.

The army marches back to Trelleborg to refill its ranks with new fresh soldiers.



With the Prussian Wolf dead, Gnupa now has to take over the front-lines, renewing the soldiers faith in the war. However Gnupa may be patient, but he isn't nearly as good as Milzas was and he starts showing a tendency to have his blood boil to quickly and have a rage take over his mind.

As Gnupa is on the battlefield, his son Jørgen comes of age and take over the court duties of the Jarl in his absence. He is a good diplomat, excelling in knowing how to make people do what he want and controlling the vassals of Skåne.

The Swedes try and ass assemble what little they have to try and take back the capital, but they are quickly crushed.



Even in times of war, matters of state needs to be managed and a betrothal is ensured with the quick daughter of the Blekinge chieftain. In the midst of burning the Scandinavian peninsula to the ground, King Ernst once again decided to expel all the Jews from the Danish Kingdom. Also since the Holy Orders of Christendom are utterly defeated and humiliated, even the Grandmaster of a Holy Order is a captive of one of the heathens. The Pope sets aside funds to stat up the Teutonic Order to help fight off the growing heathens on all sides of the Catholic world.



The Swedes does not have much to put up against the Scanians at this point, and the bigger threat has become domestic. Rumors go around that the King of Denmark is plotting to force Rügen off the hands from Jarl Gnupa. Because of that Gnupa's hand is forced and he can't take everything the Swedish King holds but have to settle with the Swedish core lands and the land of Jemtland.

It too Gnupa nine years, but now the goal has been accomplished. The throne of Uppsala, the land where Odin reigned Sweden from, has been free'd and is back in hands where it belongs. Humungous amount of Catholic territory now belongs to the Vogelius family, and it will take years before the chaos of the war finally ends in these lands.

And as the war ends, Gnupa has an old enemy to see in the dungeons....

Attalus said:

You did it !
Now I think bloodeagle or such could be a good possibility for this man

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Its not over yet, I still have another part of this chapter.

The man, untouched by the time in the dungeons, this Idwal was a strong and proud man indeed. The Holy warrior tried to motivate his victory, that with his capture and death that it would help promote the power of the Pope. But all it did was spur the Jarl with an idea....



And only time will tell how we will look back on this moment, will it bring an end to the faith of Aesir? Or shall Europe burn in the centuries to come?



His wife tells him she is with child, but doubt besets Gnupa as he has just been on the field fighting the cross-worshipers for nine years, could the child really be his own? Rumors of that the count of Desmond, heir of the Wolf and son-in-law with Gnupa has been visiting Malmfrid during the nightly hours.



Christian af Bornholm, the old regent that took care of Gnupa when his father died is still fondly remembered by Gnupa. As such he gives the county of Gestrikland to his child. The county is located just north of Uppland.



The daughter is born, she is given the name Ingrid but Gnupa still has his doubt if it actually is his child. The time pass, eventually Gnupa decides to hold a Blót to celebrate the great victory and to give offerings to the gods.



With so many new vassals, mostly of them catholic counts, a lot refuse to participate in the Blót but some pay to be exempted.



The nobles around the realm arrive to the Blót and the human sacrifice comes. The first sacrifice is in honor of Odin for the great victory and the chosen sacrifice is the Grandmaster of the Hospatiler. Even as the noose is tightened around his neck he remains calm and mumbles passages from the holy bible. Gnupa looks into his eyes all the way until the soul leaves them of this great man. Gnupa did not hate the Grandmaster, he respected his foe and he organizes that his remains are to be sent to the Order to let them bury him their way.



With the hangings done, it goes over to the feast inside the great hall of Trelleborg. The party is all and well until Chieftess Bodil of Bornholm seem to have a bit too much fun and pukes all over the chieftain of Desmond. The second son of Gnupa takes his fair part of the feast, having just grown of age.



Years pass, in fact five to be exact. Gnupa is preparing, filling up his ranks, his treasury and planning with his council on when to start the first step of their plan. The opportunity shows itself when King Ernst dies of old age and the Kingdom weak from the succession, as well the Queen of Hungary who is now married to the new King of Denmark is fighting a huge revolt in her lands, Gnupa jumps into action. He declares his Independence, that the Jarldom of Skåne is too big and powerful to live under a decadent King of a false religion.

King Stefan of course, can not accept this as Skåne has grown to be half of the Kingdom and does his best to try and stop him, he calls all his allies but the Queen of Hungary refuses. She uses the open revolts in her lands as an excuse. But in reality she hates her husbands guts.



The Holy Orders of the Pope have learned their lesson and are quick to rally and organize themselves in the Danish lands to help the Danish king enforce his will. Several battles are fought across the southern part of the Scandinavian peninsula. The Holy orders and the Danes join up with the Swedish-Norwegian forces coming to help.

They engage the besieging forces of Halland, trying to take the capital of the Danish King again.



Eventually the mix of Danes, Norwegians, Swedes and Holy orders are defeated thanks to the commander of the middle flank managing to find a narrow point to hold the enemies at bay until reinforcements from the right flank can arrive.



The fighting goes on, mostly smaller skirmishes, the Swedes retreat back to their mountains and try to take Naumdal from Skåne. However since they are now split off from the main forces Gnupa takes the oppertunity and wipes out the entire Swedish army.

The Swedes realize what's about to happen and tries to flee but is caught in Ångermanland. With their armies depleted and all their allies armies depleted the Danish king is forced to recognize the independence of Skåne!



As such, the first step of their long plan finished, Jarl Gnupa goes on with the second and final step and declares himself Fylkir of the Norse faith, holder of the Allfather's crown in Midgard and Protector of his realm. He claimed that the duty of the Fylkir was a divine one. He creates the Fylkir Allthing to be held in Uppsala to decide on both religious and secular matters.

So for the first time the Allthing of the Fylkariate assemble to discuss matters of state and religion. This is an open vote for anyone that reads this, you are free to vote on anything and are not required to do any motivation as of why, but I would love to see people motivate themselves as of why they've chosen to vote the way they have. In order to do a vote you post here in this thread and something in style with this format:

Subject of the vote: Option 1
Subject of another vote: Option 1

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In order to make my life easier, when you do a vote, please post with this picture in your post:

Before the Voting proceeds the Allthing will go through the state of the Norse faith, the various realms members of the Fylkariate and the rest of the world.



The Fylkariate has just been formed, and the entire assembly has not yet been filled. Currently consisting only of 8 lords out of 12 possible seats. If you do not count his holiness the Fylkir himself, two of these seats are held by Vogelius members, Bodil of Bornholm who look to become the next Fylkir. The other is Karl of Blekinge. The chieftain of Desmond has been given a seat in recognition of the accomplishments of his father. We also have Svend of Naumdal, the keeper of the holy site Mære. Jens af Bornholm who were given Gestrikland is also given a position at the Thing. There are also two finish rulers who have been admitted.

The last is a convert who confessed his faith to the Aesir upon the invasion of Sweden and the formation of the Fylkariate. We have Henrik Horn of Helsingland.



There is also the matter of how little people of the lands who adhere to the Norse faith which is something the Fylkariate will have to deal with as fast as possible.


In the entire world there are 2 norse provinces, Skåne and Uppland!

Thingeman Svend of Naumdal, speaking on behalf of the gydja's is worried about that Uppland and Uppsala, the most holy place of the Norse faith as it were the reigning seat of so many legendary heroes and even gods! At this moment this land his held by his holiness the Fylkir Gnupa and he by every right, both divine and by law, should hold this land. However what worries the Gydja's are what happens upon Gnupa's ascension to Valhalla, the successor of Uppland is Gotfred Gnupasen and he is not in line to become the next Fylkir.




With the victory over the Catholics and now independence, the old griffon symbol that made up the flag of Skåne didn't feel fitting anymore. As such Gnupa had it replaced with a new one sporting a classical raven on it.

The treasury is at the moment running a small deficit as it is refilling the ranks of the Fylkir's housecarl guard. However this will be quickly remedied by going back to the good ol' tradition known as going on a "Viking". Several vassals has already taken back this and coming back with longships filled with treasures. Both the Christian and Muslim world are stumped on this old horror returning.



There is also an issue of being such a large nation now, with a lot of different cultures and even religions inside it. Trouble is brewing with Catholic lords wanting to get their independence. There is an idea of forming duchies which will be given to a lord faithful to the true faith, pacifying the problem somewhat by not letting the cross-worshipers and together.




Unfortunately it seems as if the Lithuanian King's son has turned catholic, a lot of his land is still Romuvan so if we are lucky we might see a resurgence of Romuvan leadership and maybe even Romuvan reformed faith. England is being torn apart by revolts and Scotland have started expanding into Ireland. The Stråben family are still ruling as Kings of Castille which still amuses me. Jerusalem is in the middle of 4 different blobs but they live and German culture have started to migrate to the Levant. Shia seem to have been taking an upperhand, both the Fatimids and the empire of Arabia support it. The Turkish people of the steppes seem to be mostly united under Murad 'the Great' of Turkestan, a huge realm who can summon ten thousand men. However it is nothing in relation to the Seljuks or Byzantine who can muster three times that.

Something that worries me is the Kaiser of the Holy Roman Empire, He can muster 34 000 troops to fight me in case something really bad happens. So far the germans have been quite docile and not expanded too much, their borders have for most of it been static, it is more the vassals on the border of the empire that invades foreign land.






So since this is the first calling of the Fylkariate's Allthing we will have quite a few subjects needed to be voted on. The time-limit for this is one week, so next Friday the 9th of January. Feel free to discuss your decisions and motivate. Some of them might not have a direct in-game effect but it will affect how I write the Reformation events in EU4 and other similar things.

Dýrlingur recognition and the matter of Milzas
Troughout the history of Scandinavia and the norsemen, there's been several legends of mere men who accomplished great deeds giving them the favor of the gods. The matte here is if veneration of these shall be deemed heretical or if it shall be an integral part of the faith? A side matter of this is the case of Milzas, the great commander nicknamed "The Wolf" for his great conquests and victories against the cross-worshipers and paved the ground for the reformation.
Option 1: We shall not resort to the same methods as our enemies! (Make veneration of Dýrlingur heretical)
Option 2: Dýrlingur's are part of our faith, however Milzas was not welcomed to Valhalla as such he can not be one. (Allow Dýrlingur veneration but Milzas is not given the saint trait)
Option 3: Milzas deserves the praise for what he did for all of us! (Allow Dýrlingur veneration and make Milzas a saint)
Edit Note: Due to confusion, I used worship as a word which was dumb, I do not mean to put them on equal footing with the Aesir but just like how Saints are treated in the Catholic world.

The Holy Lands problem
Our holy lands are not in some desert, they are right here around us. The issue here is that the one most holy, the land of Uppsala which has been the reigning seat of many legendary hereos and even gods! It needs to be cared for and properly respected as such the one who holds Uppsala is the successor of Odin and Njord.
Option 1: The land belongs to the Vogelius family and we do as we wish with it!(Nothing changes)
Option 2: The land should pass on with whoever is voted the Fylkir upon the ascension of the previous most holy.(The county of Uppland will be transferred with Fylkariate Succession)
Option 3: The land belongs to the faith and the ones who should protect it should be the Gydja of Uppsala. (Uppsala is made capital of Uppland and given the county title)

The Prussian Ireland
The land of Desmond has long belonged to the Vogelius family, but during all the wars, transporting troops from or to there is not an option. So far we have been lucky to not have been attacked there but with Scotland invading Ireland we do not now how long that will last. As such we have to discuss the options.
Option 1: The land is ours and we won't ever let it go! (Nothing)
Option 2: The land should be abandoned before we get a catholic holy war on our hands (Give independence to Desmond)
Option 3: We should take the remaining land of Ireland by force! (Try and create a Norse realm in Ireland)

Dissidents in Sweden
With this sudden growth of Skåne, the inclusion of a lot of Christian vassals is causing problems. They want to rebel, overthrow the rule of our dear Fylkir and we have to decide on how to deal with this matter on a religious level as well. Should we fall down to the level of our enemies or shall we be more tolerant? They also inhibit us right now from changing our succession laws to something better than Gavelkind.
Option 1: Imprison them, sacrifice them and replace them with new noble families! (Will take a lot of tyrany and a lot of problems, but will solve the matter quickly)
Option 2: Divide and conquer, do not let them assemble their troops. (Will create duchy titles, give to a Norse lord and give him a catholic vassal to mange making it much safer from uprisings and creating a lot of independent Norse realms)
Option 3: Let them have their faith but do not tolerate uprisings! (Will try and slowly convert them with the Court Seer)
Option 4: We should not resort to the methods of those who brought us pain centuries ago, we shall tolerate this faith. (Nothing happens)