Is the devil spawn event chain supposed to go anywhere?

[GabrielLoki]

My devilspawn King of England is 63 years old now, and nothing is happening... Occasionally he'll get a fish telling him he needs the titles of his neighbors, he'll start speaking in tongues and totally trash his diplomacy, but he's not doing anything else. He did convert to a heresy and he had a bishop offer to exorcise him.

I know I'm supposed to get reinforcements from three witches, but that hasn't happened yet. I tried sending him on pilgrimage and the only thing that happened was he picked up the Lustful trait, and had an ordinary pilgrimage. He currently has all seven deadly sins.

I was kind of hoping for some epic showdown with the emperor of francia by this point.

 

[Alcadizzar19]

The witches only show up if you're actively in a war that's gone on for a bit, if I recall. And the things that can happen on pilgrimage like declaring oneself God are among the random events that *can* happen when pilgrimaging while a lunatic, not necessarily just by being a devilspawn. There isn't a necessary purpose to having a devilspawn ruler, just as there isn't a necessary purpose to having an idiot or a genius or a normal ruler. You probably do have amazing stats though, it's up to you what to do with your wicked, wicked man.