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[zijistark]

@StarlightTW @Ispil @IoannesBarbarus

Quick solution to the situation screenshotted:

Put the following code in a new .txt file in Historical Immersion Project/events/, restart the game + load game, and on the console invoke: event theo.1

namespace = theo

character_event = {
    id = theo.1

    is_triggered_only = yes
    hide_window = yes

    immediate = {
        k_papal_state = {
            owner = { abdicate = yes }
        }
        k_sicily = {
            owner = {
                set_government_type = feudal_government
                if = { limit = { dynasty = none } dynasty = father_bastard }
            }
        }
    }
}

Should do the trick.

 

[Ispil]

I hate huge theocracies... They usually mean a dead end to any interesting stuff going on in the area they affect. They're incredibly safe, they have no claims to latch on, they're unagressive...

Well, they're stable so long as they remain Catholic. Once had a game where the HRE turned into a theocracy, then went heretic. The ensuing revolts destroyed the entirety of the HRE.

 

[StarlightTW]

Thanks Ziji. I'll see how it plays out for a bit before I do that. Might prove interesting. If not, will have to intervene.

 

[Ziaolin]

I don't know how guys, but I think I successfully managed to breed the most "docile" branch of my family within my realm. Had no interaction whatsoever with 'em for seven generations and this is what I get:

Spoiler

I have no idea what the probabilities are to get seven generations of docile dukes like these, and why this is so funny to me.

 

[Lord of Pain]

CK in 4k

Just to show how HIP looks like in 4k, I guess it's more interesting than funny to others, but I laughed longer and harder than I care to admit at how tiny everything becomes.

 

[Ese Khan]

CK in 4k

Ha, snow texture looks kinda decent there.

....I want my new NBRT...

 

[Lord of Pain]

Ha, snow texture looks kinda decent there.

....I want my new NBRT...

It's part of my own unfinished mod, I was making a replacement for NBRT+ last december, but I put that on hold after EOOQE came back with new development, so I have my mod for personal use. Now he's gone again, with no released version, and I don't know what to do since I don't want to start on a replacement for the public again just to have him come back yet again.

 

[theStormWeaver]

It's part of my own unfinished mod, I was making a replacement for NBRT+ last december, but I put that on hold after EOOQE came back with new development, so I have my mod for personal use. Now he's gone again, with no released version, and I don't know what to do since I don't want to start on a replacement for the public again just to have him come back yet again.

If you are willing to stick in there for the long haul, get your mod up to date and keep working on it even if EOOQE comes back. Eventually people will realize that you are the better bet.

I mean no ill will toward EOOQE; modding is a labor of love and an act of charity. If they don't have the time or passion for it anymore, they have no obligation to continue.

 

[Lopatou_ovalil]

CK in 4k

i am going to masturbate now

 

[Woody Man]

Man that is beautiful.

 

[Caoimhin]

So yeah... Somehow I ended up with my heir also being the son of the Nestorian Queen of Hayk.

 

[Toa Kraka]

1011: Ermessinde Karling, a Catholic Greek, gains the ERE through inheritance. (Karlings have controlled the ERE since 940.)
1013: Eshkhan Bagratuni, a Catholic Greek, gains the ERE through inheritance.
1017: Theochariste Karling, a Catholic Greek, gains the ERE through faction demand.
1065: Cena Hanri, a Shi'ite Egyptian, gains the ERE through inheritance. How did this happen? Theochariste's first husband--the only one by whom she had any children--was the Shi'ite Count Hanri of Antalya. Also, Theochariste was a bastard child of a previous Karling emperor, so her marriage was patrilineal.
1065: The "Crusader Kings" event fires, since Constantinople is under the control of a non-Christian.
1071: Pope Gregory declares the First Crusade, for the Kingdom of Thessaly.
1071: Pericle Karling, Emperor of Italy, gains the Kingdom of Thessaly through the First Crusade.
1076: Abas Bagratuni, an Orthodox Armenian, gains the ERE through inheritance, after Cena is assassinated. (His father was King Vartan of Armenia and Tripoli. The marriage was patrilineal.)
1084: After innumerable wars, both civil and public, the ERE finally sees peace--and instantly disintegrates into the Kingdom of Epirus, as it no longer holds Constantinople.

Spoiler: Before (1065)

Spoiler: After (1084)

Blue = Epirus (Bagratuni; formerly the ERE)
Orange = Iconium (Karling; formerly an ERE vassal)
Brownish = Serbia (Karling; was in union with Lombardy+Sicily+Sardinia, some decades ago)
Greenish = the Empire of Italy (Karling; played by me)

Also, the Pope still can't mend the schism, since there's an empire-level horde in the Sahara that's converted to Orthodox Christianity.

 

[MyFaceBurns]

Is this even biologically possible?

The number one cause of death in the Middle Ages.

Also I got the event where a child is sick over my character but, for some reason, the child was my character, so basically I threw up over myself at a meal and called myself a 'little brat' because of it.

 

[DC123456789]

Is this even biologically possible?

Technically, yes, but just barely (and childbirth would be difficult, to say the least).

 

[Boodas]

Is this even biologically possible?

This is why we need teenage portraits.

Also who is the father?

 

[yenot]

Dynasty: de Blois. I guess it's Stephen de Blois, who was in fact the father of that guy (as well as the father of another Stephen, future King of England).

 

[MyFaceBurns]

This is why we need teenage portraits.

Also who is the father?

This guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen,_Count_of_Blois

Historically his father wed Adela of Normandy in 1080 and they had their first child in 1085. However in-game they wed in 1080 but have the child in 1070 (though William isn't a bastard) and when the mother was only eight years old. Note that historically the mother would have been just three years old if she had a child in 1070. Basically it's just that the dates of Adela's and William's births are wrong, not evidence of a paedophilic relationship.

 

[zijistark]

This guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen,_Count_of_Blois

Historically his father wed Adela of Normandy in 1080 and they had their first child in 1085. However in-game they wed in 1080 but have the child in 1070 (though William isn't a bastard) and when the mother was only eight years old. Note that historically the mother would have been just three years old if she had a child in 1070. Basically it's just that the dates of Adela's and William's births are wrong, not evidence of a paedophilic relationship.

Often these dates are coming straight from vanilla, FWIW. And often, if not by accident (easy enough to do with the character history is managed in CK2), it's an ahistorical compromise on the specifics to make a line of succession properly line-up, as there will be conflicting historical reports for many characters in it re: birth & death & when wed & such.

 

[Teutonic_Thrash]

A Karling Pope and a theocratic France.

 

[KingHaydenIII]

My current Kingdom of Kilikia campaign. I'm steadily conquering Anatolia after over a hundred years of Byzantine and Antiochene invasions. Thankfully Rum never attacked, but let itself get picked apart by Byzantium and myself. I took advantage of early Byzantine civil wars to conquer Cyprus and proclaim myself its King. Alliances with Hungary, Alania, Sicily and Georgia were crucial, despite all but Sicily occasionally supporting Antioch or Byzantium. Eventually I was able to take Antioch, become the Duke's suzerain and take the offensive.

Christianity is definitely on the up, with successful crusades against Andalusia, Maghreb, Africa and Lithuania. The only independent Islamic realms are the Zengid Sultanate and the weakened Shahdom of Hayk, as well as those in Arabia and Sub-Saharan Africa whom are thoroughly divided between Ibadi, Sunni and Shia. The Mongols changed the map most drastically. Their Khagans have alternated between Tengrism, Nestorianism, Sunni and Orthodoxy. Orthodoxy has been the most successful in the empire but their current Khagan is young, martial and Nestorian. They seem to have gotten rid of the Caliph and the Seljuk Shah has been reduced to being the Shah of Hayk, sandwiched between several powers with little chance for expansion.

I've managed to cultivate a pretty talented dynasty despite nearly dying out before Artashir's birth. The current king is married to his cousin (secret half-sister) and caught the lover's pox from his youngest full-sister. Woops. I've tended to marry for traits and prestige, not marrying those below regal rank. The one exception was Artashir's great-grandmother, an Ashkenazi Samaritan who passed her genes onto the royal families of Egypt, Bulgaria, Byzantium, Hungary, Croatia, Bosnia, Jerusalem, Edessa, Sicily and Africa to the extent there's a lot of Israelite-looking royals kicking about.

I'm gonna try and play this through to the end, so I'm going to try and finish the conquest of Anatolia while entering into a marriage alliance with the Mongols. There's also a Messalian territory within my domain. May try and convert my dynasty into a set of Hasburgs.