Please add the possibility of Dynasty Head/House Head player characters paying the ransoms of members of their house

[Dicaeopolis]

Currently, you can pay the ransom of members of your court, but not of members of your House/family. Moreover, even gifting money to the imprisoned family member doesn't result in them paying their ransom themselves. Given that players already have the possibility of paying the ransoms for their courtiers, it would be both a great help and more realistic if dynasty heads were also able to have the possibility of paying ransoms of at least their reasonably close relatives who are members of their house (but who are not necessarily their courtiers), such as grandchildren, nephews and nieces etc. I think this would be a useful quality-of-life improvement to ransom mechanics.


To illustrate my point, I will include a frustrating example from my current ironman play-through, of my original character's great-grandson and great-great-grandson, and their grandson & granddaughter/nephew & niece (who are currently stuck being imprisoned).

Having unlocked the Noble Veins, Convergent Blood, and Resilient Bloodline blood legacies, I set about to raise the stress level of my then character's stress to level 3, to abdicate in favour of the Beautiful, Herculean, Genius great-great-grandson of my original character so that I could take the Strengthen Bloodline decision sooner and finally be able to marry him (he was already landed) to his Pure-blooded niece.

However, when I was at about 298/300 stress, my Pure-blooded son-in-law King of Denmark (to whom married my daughter matrilineally) was deposed by losing a tyranny war before my soldiers could arrive, resulting in my grandson/nephew and granddaughter/niece being imprisoned by some Danish Count.

The wiki states that:

A ruler can ransom imprisoned characters, exchanging gold or a weak hook for the prisoner's freedom. The Ransom interaction is used on the prisoner, not the recipient. The character who is sent the ransom is decided in the following order:

1. The prisoner themselves if they are landed
2. Their direct liege if prisoner is a courtier
3. The prisoner themselves, if they are unlanded

Prisoners and their direct liege may also offer to pay ransom to the jailer, with an additional option of using a hook on the jailer. Vassals and courtiers who have their ransom paid for by their liege gain +5 opinion for 1 year.

They're unlanded, so I gifted my two imprisoned relatives 150 gold in total each (more than enough according to the wiki), yet a couple of years passed and they both remained imprisoned. I figured that the NPC who was imprisoning them didn't want to let them go free, so I murdered him to see what would happen (his son simply took over). I'm now fabricating a claim on the county the Danish county where they're held to see if I can free them by besieging the city. However, I find it frustrating that, despite being their dynasty head and despite them being my grandson & granddaughter/nephew & niece, important members of both my house and my culture, I have no way of even attempting to pay their ransom.

 

[child_of_air]

There is a mod to do this on steam....but I agree, there shouldn't have to be.