You must confess! The evil things you do in CKII

[manager2525]

Sometimes doing something evil in the game can be justified as a "necessary evil". For example killing your baby brother, nephew etc in order to get that juicy county/duchy could potencialy make your realm or dynasty more prosperous than ever before (although your brother might think otherwise).

Are there some evil things you normaly do in CK II without expecting any benefit from them?

Let me start with some of mine:
1) Family feud or rival family extermination
What a wonderfull side quest to remove the bloodline of Enrico Dandolo from this world while doing a Komnenian 1066 Byzantine restoration. While at it the house Angelos also has it coming...
2) Trespassers will be shot on site
Any reason not to excecute all those pesky host leaders and vikings that are unlucky enough to get caught while trying to pillage your lands?
3) Concubine Safary
Sometimes it is not the prestige you receive from them but rather as Genghis Khan puts it "The greatest happiness is to vanquish your enemies, to chase them before you, to rob them of their wealth, to see those dear to them bathed in tears, to clasp to your bosom their wives and daughters"
So why not make your fallen arch-enemie's women (or men depending on culture) your sexslaves???

 

[Legionary Guard]

Once, I defeated someone in a battlefield duel, but then I got the random "you died lol" event firing from that same guy. So I used the tens of thousands of gold I had stockpiled to murder every single person in his dynasty, plus the non-dynastic children of the dynastic women.

My character was once targeted by the Hashashin, but they messed up and killed a courtier instead. My next character, his son, joined the Hashashin about 20 years later just so I could see who the leader was and assassinate him, thus proving to the Hashashin that Byzantine Emperors make better killers.

 

[majdavlk]

i collect useless courtiers that have niwhere to go only to sacrifice them

sometimes i ensure that members of some houses,cultures or graphical cultures survive so i can keep genociding them permanently

 

[Woifee]

All of the evil things there are.

 

[Sergeant Flutter]

I usually have some reason to be evil. I RP my characters, so some of them can be very cruel.

However, for political reasons, I’ve been doing messed up stuff. For the last 4 generations in my game, my characters have had to murder a parent/grandparent...

Killing your grandma who has been a nice and pious monarch is pretty evil, I think.

 

[Masternachos]

I confess: When I get prisoners I can't ransom, I just let them go. When I invite rich old dudes to my court, I wait for them to die. And when I'm tribal and I fight my brother for a claim, I usually let him live [assuming he's not a jerk who would've killed me if I'd lost and will probably try to assassinate me later].
I usually only assassinate those who've done me wrong and I can't arrest (murderers, etc.). Though I generally execute raiders and peasant rebels...

Once, I defeated someone in a battlefield duel, but then I got the random "you died lol" event firing from that same guy. So I used the tens of thousands of gold I had stockpiled to murder every single person in his dynasty, plus the non-dynastic children of the dynastic women..

That's some Keyser Söze stuff right there!

 

[Byzantium2000]

I give the Byzantines their historical borders and make it balenced.

Seriously though even in ironman games I tend to assassinate the maid of God just to see if I can kill her before RNG does at peak popularity.

 

[imvdm]

Reform a religion specifically to justify having sex with my 4 daughters.

 

[butafly]

Let me start with some of mine:
1) Family feud or rival family extermination
What a wonderfull side quest to remove the bloodline of Enrico Dandolo from this world while doing a Komnenian 1066 Byzantine restoration. While at it the house Angelos also has it coming...

yes, this is fun. i've been playing my first william of normandy run, and i've systematically assassinated all but i think two of the of godwins at this point. next will be those danish creeps who keep sending adventurers after me.

 

[Zoomun]

Sometimes it is not the prestige you receive from them but rather as Genghis Khan puts it "The greatest happiness is to vanquish your enemies, to chase them before you, to rob them of their wealth, to see those dear to them bathed in tears, to clasp to your bosom their wives and daughters"

I don't think it is possible to find a historical quote better than that one.

 

[TheRealRemus]

I like killing a hole dynasty for what ever reason.
they have Land or wealth which suites me better than them? kill them til I inherit.
they have a ugly CoA or a ugly name? kill them.
they have plottet against me and killed a family member? make them go extinct.

How ever sometimes I am merciful and will let the last one life, but hopefully he will not forget to never ever Cross me again.

oh and since holy fury I like antagonizing random People like arch bishops until they rival me and then kill them in a duel, over and over again either to Farm duel experience or just to have something to do.

My favourit thing to punish People is castrating them, especially if they are children and the last member of their kin.

I Love this game.

 

[Skuriles]

Just played a game where I started earliest date with Chiefdom of Kola.
With a very fertile ruler and wife I had to imprison and kill several generations of sons and nephews to keep my empire together as a tribal ruler.
So nearly every ruler died as a tyrant. Sometimes I managed it to kill my wife after the birth of the first son.
Advantage: if you die by an event you can quickly imprison and kill you sons BEFORE your death is "official" in game.

What should I say? I'am Emperor of Scandinavia.

And I normally keep all prisoners which can not be ransomed to sacrifice them for religious reasons

 

[makaramus]

I love raiding pope before converting ... you know... they got very nice thing in there

 

[Tryvenyal]

Yesterday, I did an act of pure evil. I sacrificed 27 prisoners with the only reason to reach 200 kills before my own death. No rewards, no other reason. Pure evil.

Same charachter, but younger and as a vassal, assassinated 2 dynastial empires just to put a friend on the throne. A friend, that was no longer a friend, I should say. The victims turned out to be close kin to him. So again. No win. Just evil.

My bloodthirsty gods rejoice!

 

[Lej0n]

Restoring the Carolingian dynasty back to the French throne in 1066 bookmark.

 

[MateuszS]

I have habit to execute captured raiders and rebels (not all of them, actually). In one of playthroughs in 3.0 patch I saw that my long ruling king is responsible for killing nearly 100 people. Yes, most of them were bandits or so, but this looks quite creepy, especially that after 100 years no other character in the game was so brutal (second one was his son, curiously).

 

[jwalche]

I only get going to hell tag for seducing my sisters, so that's the only evil thing I have done.

But I have done some mean things. For example, I execute unransomable and old prisoners instead of releasing them. I am just helping the system to perform at his peak speed. Children are allowed to grow up, and grown up young prisoners become consorts and concubines.

In some games, I am strong and protected enough to not worry about vassals' or anyone's opinion. I could revoke all titles in my realm and no one would revolt. In this situation, I found the easiest of emptying purses of my feudal vassals, both my direct vassals and vassals of my vassal; I have 100% imprison chance for most of minor children. So I keep imprisoning and ransoming them until their parent's vaults are all dried up. Those counts and dukes can save quite a bit over time, with law set to max levy.

Another mean thing; I have an imprisoned duke and I have already killed all his family members so that I will inherit everything by executing him. But before doing that, I transfer a count to him so that I can imprison and execute the count to get title too.

The only problem is that, even after executing his spymaster and wife, this count has only 30% chance to be imprisoned. I am guaranteed to get his title, by executing all his children. But, if he is the last living member of his family, and I fail to imprison him, he will run away to a foreign realm and I will loose his ducats and only end up with his titles.

Following that? So, to increase probability of imprisoning and executing the last member of his family, I first imprison all his children whom I have nearly or full 100% chance to imprison. Then, I try to imprison the father. If I fail, the father will run away with all the gold, only living his title to his first son. But, since I already have his children in my jail, I execute the first son who is now the new and penny less count. This will bring the father right back to his court as he is the heir of his children. Now I try to imprison him again. I fail. I kill his second son. and I get to try again....

If he has enough kids, I am likely to end up capturing him. Then I execute his remaining children, and then him. After both his title and ducats are inherited to his duke, I move on to the next count.

 

[jonjowett]

Whenever I'm short of money, I look for rich unlanded courtiers and invite them to my court. The easy way is to look for unlanded men with no relatives, and just wait for them to die. This is not particularly evil.

However, if a courtier with lots of relatives has enough money (ie. >1000), I'll invite them and all of their family (parents/spouses/siblings/children/etc) to my court. And then I murder them all in precisely the correct order so that I inherit all of that sweet sweet gold. Systematically murdering a whole family, including infants, just to inherit some gold without incurring tyranny... yeah, that seems pretty evil to me.

 

[fr-rein]

Minor evil: inbreeding for bloodlines.

Moderate evil: a slut adultress countess becoming a Saint.

True Evil: a mercenary son becoming a Satanist King forming Prussian Kingdom out of tribal duchies, going feudal, reforming Romuva faith, stealing/seducing all daughters of Lithuanian King and making them concubines, killing 2 dozens of his children and absorbing life force from ~6 of them, killing all concubines getting too old (25+ or earlier), spreading Satanists into Catholic lands, being a cannibal, lunatic, impaler, master seducer and worst - being a poet.
This was pre-HF though. Otherwise Romuva faith would eat hearts too. I never really repeated that again though, but I do want to repeat a similar thing with a Welsh dynasty serving Aztecs and desacrating Christian world. My last attempt died right after Aztecs landed because of unfortunate events and a random Host.

 

[Wenceslaus II.]

Recently, as Emperor Robartach the Dragon of Celtica, I got all the deadly sin traits, cannibal, lunatic, leader of Satanists, and a really high intrigue. One of my vassals declared a revolt, I succesfully defeated them, although it was close. I was pretty mad at that point, so I decided to imprison all of my vassals and courtiers, without any major resistance thanks to my high intrigue. I decided to devour the men, sacrifice priests and women to Satan and burn the children alive. The fact that 90% of them were my family probably didn't make it any better. After the genocide was finished only my youngest daughter survived, she had very similar stats, so I changed the succesion law to Agnatic-Cognatic just before I got killed by a mob of angry peasants.
It was fun.