CONTEST! Invade Crusader Kings II: The Old Gods with your very own in-game event

[Wightjosh]

In Game Event

***Saving this spot in the meantime***

 

[Guilu]

Trigger : An unreformed pagan surrenders to somebody of a reformed religion different from his own
Text : As you head home, defeated, a question remains on your mind. Why did you lose ? Did [God] abandon you ?

Choices :

• I was not worthy.
  25% chance of becoming Zealous, 35% chance of becoming Humble.
• What if [the victor's prophet] was right ?
  Convert to the victor's religion.
• It had nothing to do with [God] !
  Become Cynical.

 

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Trigger: Ruler has religion Astartu, character in realm has 4+ of the seven virtues, is male, has trait poet

Event Text: [Virtuous Character] is beloved by all for his wisdom, kindness and poetry, and everyone in the realm seeks him out for advice, his judgement or simply to hear his glowing words. You can only dream of possessing such gifts! Perhaps I should seek him out...

Option A: [Virtuous Character] teach me the wisdom of the Gods!
-30 prestige
Gain trait humble
20% Chance of content
20% Chance of zealous
60% Chance +1 Learning, Just

Option B: I don't need any help!
+30 prestige
-10 piety
Gain trait proud
50% chance envious
50% chance cynical

Option C: Lure him to your home, kill him, and brew his blood into ale! I shall have his wisdom and his golden voice!
[Virtuous Character] dies!
Gain trait cruel
-100 piety
-50 prestige
50% chance:
+2 Diplomacy
+2 Learning
Gain trait poet
50% chance:
Possessed
Ill

Trigger: Ruler is Tengri, has rank Khan, has disease, or is maimed , wife is pregnant.

Event Text: The Great khan lies tossing and turning upon his bed, and his warriors huddle outside his tent muttering. The horde must have its leader, and if the Khan is sickly, another must take his place. The Khan's wife mops her husbands brow, and worries about her future, and the future of the life growing inside of her. If he does not live, both may be forfeit. An old slave, a witch of the steppes, promises to cure him, using unholy magics. Can you trust her?

Option A: Never! I will not stain my love with your spells!
+10 piety
10% chance Khan dies
10% chance Khan recovers
80% chance no effect

Option B: She is a worker of black magic! Kill her, and pray to Tengri for healing!
+50 piety
20% chance Khan recovers
20% chance Khan dies
40% chance wife dies
20% chance no effect

Option C: My love must live! I will risk anything!
-50 piety
-10 vassal opinion
30% chance Khan recovers, wife loses trait pregnant
30% chance Khan recovers but is incapable, wife loses trait pregnant
20% chance Khan recovers
20% chance Khan dies, wife loses trait pregnant

Trigger: Astartu ruler, must be fighting personally in a battle

Event text: The battle booms and crashes around you, tides of iron and blood sweeping across the muddied ground, and you begin to despair of victory. But just as the enemy host surges forwards, lights begin streaming across the sky! You raise your sword and turn to your men...

Option A: The valkyries have come to take us to valhalla! Every man who dies this day will feast in the halls of the brave!
+100 prestige
Win battle
Gain trait brave
20% chance ruler dies!
40% chance gain trait wounded
40% chance gain trait zealous

Option B: The angels of the lord look on! Put down your swords and repent before God!
Convert to Catholic
+100 piety
gain trait humble
gain trait zealous
gain trait mystic
50% chance white peace
50% ruler dies, becomes 'The Martyr'

Option C: AHHHH!
Battle is lost
Gain trait craven
Lose 100 prestige

 

[KeltKing]

Event 1
Trigger:
Character Slavic OR Tengrii AND
Tough Soldier OR Skilled Tactician OR Brilliant Strategist
Warscore -50 OR
1000+ men lost in a battle

Event Text:
A grim look settles on your face as you order your men to prepare funeral pyre. It seems as if everything you have fought for is falling apart. It is only fitting for you to end your life as you lived it: on the battlefield. As you face the fire, you feel the intense heat lick your skin.

Option A: All is lost!
-Character dies
-War ends

Option B: By the sword of the Gods, I still can fight!
- +2 martial
- +50 Prestige

Option C: The fire is hotter than I expected...
- Gain trait "Craven"
- Gain 5% Warscore

Event 2
Trigger:
Character Tengri AND
Son AND
40 days after birth

Event Text:
The servants have returned with forty stones from forty places. Now they are to be put in water and with a gold coin added; you are to be bathed forty times in it. May you find fortune under the Blue Sky


Option A: Under the Blue Sky there will be Prosperity!
- Gain 40 Prestige

 

[S0ny B1ack]

I would add a slavic event connected with the Kurentovanje (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurent - it is (still) celebrated in Slovenia every year).

The Kurent (part of the costume is important for the event ):

Spoiler

Kurent or Korant is the most famous traditional carnival figure of the entire region, and arguably, the most recognizable in all of Slovenia. While Kurent groups might not all look exactly the same, it is the most popular and frequent traditional carnival figure in the Ptuj and Drava fields, and in the Haloze Hills.

Kurent or Korant, as it is known today, has its origin in popular tradition. Traditionally, the Kurent's outfit was reserved for unmarried men, but nowadays Kurent-Korant can be unmarried or married men, as well as well women and children.

The two types of Slovene Kurent-Korant are the so-called »feathery« (from the town of Markovci) and the »horned« ones (from Haloze), with the difference being mainly in the look of the head covering. The Kurent-Korant wears a massive sheepskin garment. Around its waist hangs a chain with huge bells attached—the resulting noise does a great job of chasing away winter, which is, ostensibly, the Kurent's function. The Korent also wears heavy boots and special red or green leg warmers, while the head is covered by a towering furry hat festooned with ribbons, and a mask typically sporting a long, red tongue. A wooden club is normally carried in the left hand.

The point of the Kurentovanje:

Spoiler

The main figure, called Kurent or Korent, wears a massive sheepskin garment and a chain with huge bells around its waist, resulting in the noise the function of which is to "chase away winter". The ten-day rite of spring and fertility is most likely connected to Slovene mythology and Slavic paganism.

Event text:
[maybe some details about the Kurentovanje followed by]
During the parade of the Kurents your courtir [name] makes an improper joke about what the Kurents could do with their tongues.

Trigger:
-Must be slavic pagan
-Month must be februar
-The courtir who makes the joke should not be a slavic pagan

Options:
-Laugh [-20 piety; +5 relation with the courtir; x% chance to get trait Lustful]
-Ignore him [-5 piety]
-Make him wish he had hold his tongue [-25 relation with the courtier; +30 piety]

EDIT: about the event picture - i guess it is quite obvious that a Kurent would be the best choise Example:

Spoiler

 

[riadach]

Kinda modelled on the death of Turgesius:

Trigger: Character is unmarried Norse Pagan who has declared war against or is raiding an Irish ruler with a daughter (attractive?) of marriageable age.

Event Text: While on campaign, you see through the clearing a beautiful women, accompanied by twelve veiled maidens. She claims to be {name of ruler}'s daughter, and that in return for peace and alliance with you, her father offers you her hand in matrimony and her handmaidens to do with as you please.

Option A No woman's love can quench my bloodlust.

(+ 50 prestige. 50% chance Character gains the trait, wroth, -20 relations with prince)

Option B (if character is paranoid): This must be a trap! Slay them all.

(The princess and handmaidens are slain, -100 relations with prince, 75% gain the trait wroth).

Option C (if character is cynical): I trust not this prince of Ireland. Seize the princess as my concubine, and make messengers of these handmaidens.

( + 50 prestige, princess becomes concubine, handmaidens are slain, - 50 relations with prince, 50% chance character gains deceiftul trait).

Option D (compulsory if character has lust trait): That'll do nicely.

(triggers Ambush event)

Ambush Event Text:

Ambush! The handmaidens were beardless boy soldiers and have captured you, fettered you and brought you to a dirty stream. Crowds of vengeful Irishmen surround you their eyes filled with an insatiable bloodlust, while the Irish prince stands regally, staring upon you from the bank with a wry smile and his arms crossed. A burly executioner grabs you by the hair. Before plunging you under, the prince roars "Now Gentile, it is time you gained your patrimony".

Option A: Gurgle

(Character dies).

 

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Trigger: Character is Zoroastrian. Character has Improve Learning ambition.

Event Text: You have begun reading the Gathas, in both the contemporary Persian language and in the ancient Avestan tongue. The words of Zoroaster himself race through your mind as you study each song carefully and contemplate their true meanings. Through conversations with [random character in same court with ecclesiastical education and Zoroastrian religion], you learn that, since the Gathas were first composed by Zoroaster, the priests would memorise them in their entirety, along with many of the books which comprise the Avesta. It was thanks to such "living books" that so much of the Avesta survived Iksander the Accursed's cruel rampage through Persia.

Option A: Nemô vê gâthå ashaonîsh!
+25 opinion with [random ecclesiastical character]
+1 Learning
25% chance of +3 Learning

Option B: Enough of the Gathas. The Vendidad seems much more interesting...
+10 opinion with [random ecclesiastical character]
+1 learning
50% chance of gaining the trait Zealous

Option C: This is getting tiring...
*Character looks for another way to improve learning

 

[mrcowman]

title(norse only) The great invasion

trigger:you own all of scandinavia

TEXT:your liege you have united are people, many think it is time to end this catholic joke

option A: I agree with my people
you start a preparing for a invasion of the papal lands

option B: I think the catholic are a little to nice for that
40 papal influence and become catholic

option C: I don't think your ready for that
All vassals lose -20 relations, and lose -10 relation with all other norse pagans

 

[Der Tod]

Choice of Weapons

Trigger: Character is a male heir that reaches adulthood. Martial of 3+. Culture: Norse

Event Text: As you are finally counted among the ranks of men, it is time to take up the arm. Which one is the token of manhood that you will carry to battle?

Option A: The straight sword! The only weapon truly worthy.
-5 Gold
+5 Prestige
5% Chance for Trait Proud

Option B: The hard spear! Good enoug for Odin, good enough for me.
+5 Piety
-5 Prestige
5% Chance for Trait Humble

Option C: The vicious axe! My enemies shall fear it's bite.
+5 Gold
-5 Piety
5% Chance for Trait Wroth

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An Act of Mercy

Trigger: The character is wounded in battle against another character, with which he has good relations or who has the trait Kind.

Event text: [Name of enemy] has bested you. Struck down you lie before his feet, waiting for the deadly blow. But instead he spares you and sheats his weapon!

Option A: How dares he to insult me this cruelly?
Gain trait wounded.
Enemy becomes rival/-50 Relation with this character.
10% chance to gain trait brave.

Option B: What a formidable foe and honorable man!
Gain trait wounded.
Enemy becomes friend/+50 Relation with this character.
+5 prestige
20% chance to gain trait trusting.

Option C: Mercy is Weakness! Stab him in the guts!
Gain trait wounded.
25% chance that character dies.
25% chance that enemy is wounded.
50% chance that enemy dies.
-15 Prestige.
10% chance to gain trait deceitful.

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Dead and Dreaming

Trigger: Pagan. Embarked on ships and lost 75% of army strenght due to attrition

Event text: The Ship seems to have lost it's course, the men are getting weary and supplies run low. Many claim they hear voices from beneath the waves, offering salvation in exchange for unspeakable worship!

Option A: We shall not discard in our gods. Send forth a raven and pray!
+20 Piety.
50% chance to gain trait ill.

Option B: The gods can't see us here. The sunstone will help our calculations.
-5 Piety
20% chance to gain trait ill

Option C: Sure, help us and save our lives, unseen Master of the Deep! Iä! Iä!
-30 Piety.
5% chance to gain trait possessed.

 

[Cpt.Canada]

For warlike pagans.
Trigger: A war has been declared with a country that is A: at least one title level higher than you (king vs duke etc) B: has the same title level, but at least 130% as many holdings as you or C: enemy calls in allies (and has same title level)

Name: The enemy is vast
(courtier name) exclaims that the enemy hordes are without number and that we shall surely fall against them, you address your assembled vassals.
Option A: May (the god/s) have mercy on our souls...
Effect 1: 100% courtier gains trait craven
Effect 2:70% you gain trait craven 30% no effect
Effect 3:+20 piety

Option B: Praise (the god/s) for giving us a worthy opponent!
Required Martial greater than 8
Effect 1: courtier who initiated event is imprisoned and gains the craven trait
Effect 2: a prisoner is sacrificed (rulers choice) to celebrate the war
Effect 3: 50% gain brave trait 30% gain zealous 20% gain wroth

Option C: Being outnumbered by sheep is no concern of the wolf
Required that the enemy faction is of an abrahamic religion
Effect 1: courtier gains the trait craven
Effect 2: 70% gain trait zealous 30% no effect
Effect 3: public opinion is improved by 10
Effect 4: 10% moral bonus for the remainder of the war

Option D: I do not fear death
Effect 1: courtier gains trait craven
Effect 2: 70% gain brave 30% gain arbitrary

 

[AliveTech]

Title: From where men came

Trigger:
Ásatrú or reformed ásatrú, married

Event Text:
A old man stands at your door, you invite him in and offer him some food. After he has eaten the food you tell him to sleep between you and your wife through the night. When the morning comes you see him off. Nine months later you wife gives birth to a young son.

Option A: [king] By the gods
gain a son with the trait strong and the name Ríg

Option B: [duke] A son
gain a son

Option C: [Count] Whos son is this?
your wife gets a legitimized bastard

Option D: [zealous] A son from Heimdall
gain a son with the trait Heimdallsson giving +2 martial and 10% fertility

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Title: Worthy sons

Trigger:
Ásatrú or reformed ásatrú, holding blot

Event text:
Before the feast commences it is customary that your vassals brings their sons of age so that they can get their warriors band and swear fealty to you. This year two young boys stands before you and holds their hands on their new bands saying "I will serve you to my death"

Option A: As they should!
+25 prestige
-5 gold
25% chance of gaining proud

Option B: Commence the feast in their honor!!
+75 prestige
-15 gikd
40% chance of gaining humble

Option C: [Cruel] I don't need more weaklings
-100 prestige
-25 piety
A random vassals son is slain

Option D: [Brave] Let us test your skills
+50 prestige

 

[Torp]

Esemesas just beat me to the wife/concubine event I had in mind, but may I suggest that the wife/concubine gains the "Attractive" trait?

I do, however, have another idea, based on the ancient Norse tradition of flyting, a poetical battle of wits and insults. There is a chance of rather severe effects, though only a small one.

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Event name: A Battle of Wits

Trigger: Norse pagan, holding or guest to a feast, hunt, fair or similar festive event, other character attending event has non-positive opinion of character

Text: As you sit in the mead hall one evening, telling tall tales of your deeds, one of your companions [randomly picked among the attendants with negative opinion] stand up and speak to you.

"Your doings
ye should never
publish among men.
Thou art a boasterous oaf
Fit more for the mead hall
than the fields of battle."

You can not let this insult stand. Will you engage him[/her] in the ancient tradition of flyting, a battle of wits and insults, or prove your worth to those present in other ways?

Option A: Sit down and keep your mouth shut. [not available if character is ambitious, brave or proud]

-10 prestige
-5 general opinion modifier for 5 years
25% chance of getting craven.

Option B: Engage him in a battle of wits

25% chance of gaining each others grudging respect
     Both characters +20 prestige
     Both characters +25 opinion of each other
20% chance of winning the battle of wits
     +20 prestige
     +5 general opinion modifier for a year
20% chance of losing the battle of wits
     -20 prestige
10% chance of humiliating opponent
     You gain 50 prestige 
     You gain +5 general opinion modifier for 5 years.
     Opponent -50 opinion of you
     Opponent -50 prestige
10% chance of opponent humiliating you
     You lose 50 prestige 
     You get a -5 general opinion modifier for 5 years.
     Your opinion of opponent -50
10% chance of a brawl breaking out
     20% chance of gaining the trait wounded
     +20 prestige for character and opponent
5% chance of opponent challenging you to go holmgång
     Triggers homgång event.

Option C: Walk over to him and engage him physically

10% chance opponent backs down
     Opponent loses 10 prestige
     25% chance to gain craven
45% chance you win the fight
     Gain 20 prestige
     20% chance opponent gains the trait wounded
45% chance you lose the fight
     Opponent gain 20 prestige
     20% chance you gain the trait wounded

Option D: Challenge him to go holmgång! [not available if character is craven]

70% chance opponent backs down
     Opponent loses 50 prestige
     75% chance opponent gains craven
30% chance opponent accepts
     You go holmgång! [triggers holmgång event]

 

[svarogteuse]

Attack by Grendel

Trigger:
Holding feast
Must have strong

Event Text:
A great feast, everyone is enjoying themselves, the singing of the men can be heard for miles around the feast hall. It is so loud however it has woken an unspeakable evil. The door of the hall is flung off its hinges, a monster with fire it its eyes strides in. It grabs the first warrior tears his limbs off, drinks down the warrior's blood and consumes the body in a few quick mouthfuls.

Options:
Option A: "Run!"
Effect:
At least got away safe. Some members of the court were not so lucky.
Lose Prestige
Gain Craven
Your marshal dies

Option B: "To arms men to arms"
Effect:
Your men dogpile the monster, it is defeated but not without some losses.
50% chance of Wounded
25% chance gain Craven
Random courtier dies.

Option C: "I will defeat the monster alone"
Effect:
You step forward alone an face down the foul beast. It is a tough fight, weapons do not hurt the creature. Finally you rip its arm o
ff and it flees bleeding into the woods.
Gain Brave
50% chance gain Maimed
Gain Grendelsbane +2 Martial
Gain Prestige

 

[Zerois]

Trigger:
A holding has been looted by a raiding army belonging to the character.

Event Text:
After your men looted the holding, a woman steps towards you. She pleads for mercy and would teach you
about the culture of her lands.

Option A: Allright, that could be interesting.
+ 2 diplomacy
-10 prestige

Option B: Let the finder keep her.
+ 10 opinion with random courtier
+ 10 prestige

Option C: (Available with lustful trait) She doesn't look that bad...
~ Random woman from looted holding becomes concubine
+ 50 prestige
- 25 piety

Option D: (Available with wroth trait) By the gods, KILL HER!
~ Random woman from looted holding dies!
+ 25 prestige
-50 piety

 

[little_badger]

My first suggestion:

Title: Darkest before the Doom

Trigger:
All pagans - Character is leading an army in a province in Sweden.

Event text:
On your travels you come across a lone hut, you enter and inside sits a man surrounded by books. You notice first his fetching beard before he speaks and offers to tell you stories of a future place he calls U-rope. Stern of face he stares at you......

Option A: {Zealous or Strong}
U-rope?! PAH Odin will live forever in our hearts and minds.
Effect: You gain the cynical trait.

Option B:
Beg on your knees for a glimpse of the future.
Effect: You see many men on golden horses, you decide to move to Wessex.
+2 learning

Option C:
You become overly anxious, excited and can not control yourself.
Effect: 5% chance of immediate death. You name your next son Henrik.

 

[Morikai]

You become a man (pagan)

If your character is the ruler and age 10 or above his regency will end he will stay the same age but have all the powers of an adult except the ability to marry

Event text could be something like this: I don't see why a regent rules my lands when i was born to rule? Many other places have been ruled by people younger then me so why shouldn't i rule alone? I do not need a regent I am a man not a boy as they would have me believe.

option A
Become a man (no more regent) (increase prestige)
option B
Still need guidance (continue with regent) (increase piety or some other bonus)

Basically so as a pagan you can continue to expand with war or keep your kingdom safe rather then have a regency ruin your hard work.

 

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Inspired by the Ibn Fadlan account of a Viking funeral.

Restricted to the Norse pagans. (...obviously)

Trigger - one of your vassals, who has a concubine, dying.

Event - You are committing the body of your late brother at arms, [name of deceased vassal], to the gods. His ship and possessions have been readied, but before the ceremony can begin, a cloaked woman approaches you. As she lowers her hood you recognise the girl as a thrall to [name of deceased vassal]. She pleads to you that you permit her to die with her master on his funeral pyre, that she might serve him in the next life.

Option A - "Send to your master our regards."
[name of concubine] dies.
Gain 15 piety.

Option B - "What good could come of your death?"
Lose 10 piety.
30% chance of gaining Cynical.

 

[Barón Rojo]

Trigger:
Tengri emperor or king.
Not zealous.

Event: Hold a debate among different religions.
There is a long going polemic between the so-called Christian and Muslim religions. Their arguments should be something entertaining to hear. We could hold a contest among their clerics to see who have the most solid beliefs of them.

Option 1: Hold the contest!
-50 gold
+30 piety
+10 prestige
One of these options will happen:
70% Nothing happens
15% I'm really impressed by the arguments of the Muslims! Convert to Sunni
15% I'm really impressed by the arguments of the Christians! Convert to Nestorian

Option 2: What a waste of time!
-10 piety
One of these options will happen:
50% nothing happens
30% gets the cynical trait
20% gets the lazy trait

 

[TheGreatSnoop]

The Khan of Khan's burial (inspired by Ghengis Khan's burial).

Trigger:
Player's character must be of the Mongol culture, must be ruler of either the Golden Horde, Illkhanate or Timurids, must be of the Tengri religion, and must have deceased father who had a personal prestige of at least 6000 or more.

Event Text:
You are reminded of the glory your father brought to our people, your generals suggest he should be honoured in death with a burial appropriate for such a Khan of his achievements...with those who witness it appropriately silenced of course...

Option A: "My father's achievements demand such an honour!"

Effect: Your father is buried in the place he would have desired, your soldiers massacre those who bury him so as to keep the location secret for all time, then they themselves are silenced...

Lose 180 gold
Gain 50 prestige
25% chance - Gain the trait 'Impaler'


Option B: "My father's achievements were indeed great...but not that great."

Effect:
You choose not to honour your father's achievements with a suitable burial for the Khan he was...aren't you a great son.

30% chance gain trait 'Greedy'.
70% chance no effect.

 

[superskierpat]

Title = Headhunter
Trigger = An enemy is slain in battle and the general is pagan

Description = Your fallen enemy lies before you, he was a valiant foe and his head will make a great trophy to prove your valor to the gods. Grasping your blade firmly, you severe his head from the rest of his body.

Option A = For (war god)

Effect = Receives a character modifier called Headhunter for 2 years adds 2 prestige/month and 1 piety/month (Not sure about the quantities)

Based on an ancient celtic tradition that spreaded to some roman soldiers and some germanic tribes.