If it doesn't do so already, the event a Hermetic Society member can get to use up their ingredients to ward off evil should prevent Demon Child attacks for a period of time.
Hermetic Society evil-warding versus Demon Child
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I'm not quite sure what you mean by "Demon Child attacks," but what it does is protect you from demon worshipers' tainted touch power.
If one of your children becomes the demon child somehow , or , if as High Priest or High priestess of Lucifer's Own , you deliberately introduce the demon child among your children through Unholy Impregnation , then the demon child , between ages 3 to 16 , tends to kill off your other children. Pretty effectively and relentlessly too.
In my current run , as High Priestess my queen used Unholy Impregnation at age 41 . I waited until age 41 to produce the demon child , among other reasons , because I had other children I was rather fond of . By that time my other children were already adults , and I was able to give them counties or baronies of their own so that they wouldn't be in my court. And I made the demon child my heir too.
None of that saved my other children. In my court or not , adults or children , heirs to the throne or not , out of 9 children , the demon child killed seven of them.
And based on previous experience with the demon child , that is the norm ; the demon child will go through his or her siblings like a one -person Black Death.
Here are the ways that I know of to deal with the demon child ;
1 -- If your player - character is female , and you are using the console command , " Charinfo " then you will know ahead of time that it is a demon child , and female player- characters can get abortions. So far , I haven't found any way to kill a demon child AFTER it is born. The only sure way I know of to get rid of the demon child is via abortion.
2 -- reconcile yourself to the idea that the demon child is going to be your heir. For this you need Agnatic - cognatic , absolute cognatic , and elective monarchy or Tanistry , if the demon child is female. This is usually a good deal . The Demon child typically has superstar attributes and traits. Also , after the demon child comes of age , the child automatically becomes the leader of the Satanists , and in just a couple of years acquires enough Dark Power to produce another stellar heir through Unholy Impregnation .
Demon child / unholy impregnation are the only sure way I know of to produce successive generations of super babies / super star heirs.
3. -- Wait until the demon child comes of age , and marry off the child to some nobody in a far away land. For example , if you are kingdom of Castille , marry the demon child off to some minor Count or Baron in Scotland. Typically under such circumstances the demon child fades away into obscurity , or , at least , becomes far away Scotland's problem. AFTER the child has been married off to some nobody in a far away land , THEN start having children. I know , that means waiting 16 years to start having children........
But in my experience the demon child is that lethal.
I have never joined the Hermetics , so I wouldn't know if the Hermetics have a counter to all of this.
As far as I'm aware that event is pretty useless. You gain little prestige, lose piety, and sacrifice your ingredients.
I love the hermetics, though i wish these things were more in depth explored :/
I love the hermetics, though i wish these things were more in depth explored :/
It's not useless. As I said, it protects against tainted touch. Highly useful if you've ever had the unpleasant experience of being a target.
when i get an event for possibloe demon child i act immediately.even if it makes me a tyrant.
What?
They can get an event with that option if they have a difficult pregnancy. I'm not sure what other, if any, situations they get that option. They don't have an at-will decision to do it, though.
Yeah, got it as an option quite recently in my current game for the first time, but it's not a general option all the time or anything. (I skipped it. I didn't die or anything, but the kid turned out Slow, though there were... other reasons for that)
(Now I'm worried because I haven't had Demon Child yet, and I usually get it once per game and it tears through everything. At least this time I have absolute cognatic and meritocracy so I can play as them, usually it happens when I can't possibly... really messed up my Abbasid Caliphate game)
(Now I'm worried because I haven't had Demon Child yet, and I usually get it once per game and it tears through everything. At least this time I have absolute cognatic and meritocracy so I can play as them, usually it happens when I can't possibly... really messed up my Abbasid Caliphate game)
What?
Oops ! In my current game the abortion event fired regularly enough for me to ASSUME it was a standard option , not a random event.
Now that I think of it though , I didn't get the option with EVERY pregnancy. ( I'm playing a Basque Queen with absolute cognatic , and wound up spending 20+ years in seduction focus. So there was A LOT of breeding , and A LOT of pregnancies. By the way , even though I created the demon child myself , I was pretty bummed when the demon child killed four of my children who were all children of a Pope I liked. I got a kick out of having children who called the Pope , " Papa " in a literal sense. )