You mean Alfred of Wessex of Essex.
Yes, this is precisely him, The Beggar.
You mean Alfred of Wessex of Essex.
Yeah, that happened.
I really think there should be some mechanic which prevents Byzantium/Rome from getting destroyed when they lose Constantionple while still being huge. The empire was practically disbanded due to Gavelkind (or, since this is AI, vassal from Germany was granted Constantinople and it got split from rest of the empire on succession).
I'll do a very different roleplay ... that almost nobody does, play Nordic and Christianize, instead of looting the whole world in the name of Odin.
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Good thing it´s name is Roman Empire then.I think its more so for historical purposes. If you look at the Fourth Crusade, when Constantinople was taken the Byzantine Empire ceased to exist until it was retaken by the Nicaeans. Seems a bit odd to call it the Byzantine Empire if Byzantium itself isn't ruled by the empire.
Good thing it´s name is Roman Empire then.
Also, the Empire did not cease to exist, rather it splintered, with multiple people claiming the title (including Latin Emperors). Issue here really is that Roman (or Byzantine if we need to use its historiographic name) Empire shouldn´t be fixed on its capital all of the time, especially in cases where it falls victim to Gavelkind.
I mean, can you imagine Charlemagne marrying Irene, uniting the empires which would then pass on to his son and grandsons, with one of them becoming the Emperor and others independent kings, except one of the younger sons inherits Constantinople with the Emperor saying "Well, that´s it I guess"?
Byzantine and Latin empires being fixed on Constantinople makes sense, but there should be exceptions that prevent absurd situations like this or allow some interesting stuff, for example player roleplaying switching capitals (like Constantine did) with no need to control the previous one, AI having high crown authority and lands and being able to survive conquest of the capital and so on.
I don't understand how the ERE could fall victim to Gavelkind. It is literally locked out of every other succession law in EMF and vanilla; you can't have 2 empires, etc. If the primary heir would've caused an external inheritance, then so would've all the junior heirs in a split inheritance scenario.Good thing it´s name is Roman Empire then.
Also, the Empire did not cease to exist, rather it splintered, with multiple people claiming the title (including Latin Emperors). Issue here really is that Roman (or Byzantine if we need to use its historiographic name) Empire shouldn´t be fixed on its capital all of the time, especially in cases where it falls victim to Gavelkind.
I mean, can you imagine Charlemagne marrying Irene, uniting the empires which would then pass on to his son and grandsons, with one of them becoming the Emperor and others independent kings, except one of the younger sons inherits Constantinople with the Emperor saying "Well, that´s it I guess"?
Byzantine and Latin empires being fixed on Constantinople makes sense, but there should be exceptions that prevent absurd situations like this or allow some interesting stuff, for example player roleplaying switching capitals (like Constantine did) with no need to control the previous one, AI having high crown authority and lands and being able to survive conquest of the capital and so on.
I think there are ways to break it (at least in normal CK2), it had something to do with factions or some other weird thing (can´t remember where I saw people talking about it). Alternatively, it could have been caused by Independence faction where one of the kings owned Constantinople itself or (what seems to be the case after looking at the screenshots once again), king of East Francia pressed his claims on Lombardy and Burgundy and one of these kingdoms included Constantinople (probably through vassal), which makes the situation even more absurd.I don't understand how the ERE could fall victim to Gavelkind. It is literally locked out of every other succession law in EMF and vanilla; you can't have 2 empires, etc. If the primary heir would've caused an external inheritance, then so would've all the junior heirs in a split inheritance scenario.