The chieftainship thing, as with most other stuff depends on which pagans we are talking about. Tengriists had a hereditary belief in which they believed in the "Kut" or the belief that Tengri, their main god bestoved the gift of rulşng to the kings dynasty. Having a king who isn't related to the last one in any dynastic way would cause unrest and etc.
"In reality the thing was of course dominated by the most influential members of the community, the heads of clans and wealthy families, but in theory one-man one-vote was the rule."
The pagan norse pretty much also went with dynastics with a religious twist, the major kingly dynasties in Scandinavia from the Vendel era and forward usually claimed to be of divine origin (The Ynglings claimed to be descendants of Ing aka Freyr, the Geatish Wulfings claimed to be descendants of the Wolf/Odin and the legendary Völsungs too were claiming descent from Odin... and the Jotun Hljod) and some kings could due to their bacgkround claim descendence from more than one (the founder of the House of Munsö in game claimed descendence from both the Völsungs and the Ynglings).
You made it sound like "strong viking win raaagh", which it was not, but hey.
It was a democracy, and of course a democracy elects someone with a certain amount of prestige and so on. It even builds up to specific clans/dynasties without intervention against it (equalizing wealth). I think the new republic system should function rather well for this, except that pagans should be able to hold castles independently of the cities that are tied to the top republic title, in order to represent the land that these families held independently of kingship for example.
You made it sound like "strong viking win raaagh", which it was not, but hey.
An example: The king of Denmark has 3 cities and 4 castles. Upon his death the 3 cities will pass to the one who is elected king and the 4 castles will pass to the next head of his dynasty. Every title would function like this for the Norse. So if a Lord Mayor (Hövding) of Sjælland dies while having 2 cities and 2 castles and the successor to the county is not of his dynasty (due to republic election) his two cities would pass to the new Lord Mayor and his castles to the successor of his dynasty (who would now be a baron).
That is how I would picture the Norse functioning properly. I really want the feudalism and the democracy blurred into each other.
It is just a question of programming it right with the inheritance question in my suggestion. We've already got titles splitting between people with gavelkind and people being able to hold both temples and castles with penalties as a Muslim.Haha well maybe
I knew that there is some sort of democracy with the Norse, however just couldn't put it the way i actually meant.
Also, i believe the system you are talking about is already implemented. They said that somewhere in the interwiew you can't inherit both republic and feudal holdings or something like that. So they each go to seperate people. They could certainly use it with the northern pagans as well.
Also, add colonisation for them! We should get Vinland, Greenland, Iceland etc. colonizable. Maybe through event chains? Maybe if you banish someone as a norse, they go out and explore some new land?((Which is, afaik what really happened))
Well, i believe Greenland never perished during the time period, and Vinland could have continued, if it was taken more seriously. Also, Aztec's had some contact with the Vikings from what i know((Not irl, SI)) and this would make it actually semi-historical. Maybe add a "Vinland Colonized" flag as a requirement for the SI events to fire?
, but I shall post in this one for the fun of it! So huzzah!, or something.
Don't think we need to expand further on the SI concept. And you are right that Greenland kept standing through most of CK2. Besides, all this Vinland stuff is something you can add in mods(No seriously, it is perfectly possible).
