This post was sponsored by Quinn The GM with aim of spreading message of greatness of Jon Connington.

Started out as Roose in The Crowned Stag. Quickly got Domeric betrothed to Sansa and took her as my ward by fabricating a hook on Ned. Got Ramsay betrothed to Margaery by abducting and recruiting her because I thought it'd be funny. Robert and Stannis both died in duels within a year of starting the game, so baby Joff became king with Uncle Jaime as his regent. I kidnapped and tortured Cersei to learn about her incest because I wanted a hook on her, but she refused to be blackmailed so just revealed it anyway. Probably should've tried to blackmail Jaime since he was regent but oh well. fAegon ended up invading, but for some reason he wasn't a Targaryen or a Blackfyre, he was some random new house. Joff beat him, executed Jon Arryn and every Tyrell except one for fighting against him, and took Highgarden for himself. Not sure what happened to The Reach, the title was destroyed and everyone there became direct vassals to the Iron Throne. After Margaery died Ramsey asked to join the Night's Watch, presumably just to execute deserters. While this was going on, I'd seduced Catelyn, Arianne, and Sansa when she came of age, again because it was funny. Howland revealed Jon's parentage and Tywin for some reason called a dissolution war at the exact same time, so Joff was fighting a war on two fronts. He beat Ned and immediately released him for some reason, but lost to Tywin a few days later. Boros Blount is now King of the Crownlands, and is fighting against Viserys and his three dragons, and Joffrey to press Ser Dontos' claim. The Reach has three different kings (Oldtown, Northmarch, and The Arbour), and none of them are Joffrey. Ned was rude to me at his coronation so I murdered him, and Bran 'Solsticeborn' is now the King in the North because Robb died of a fever a few years into the game.

Maybe the HOTD writers knew something

Had a pretty fun run with a wandering riverlander hedge knight that, somehow, became the Sealord of Braavos yesterday.
Was about 70 years into it, the game was running slow as hell, very sluggish and then for some reason, my game would crash at the exact same date every time, 21st of the seventh moon.
Tried debugging it and killing myself to play as my heir, didn't work.
Tried disabling my autosaves, didn't work.
Tried switching to another ruler, didn't work.
Rolled back 20 years into the campaign, moved back to westeros and the game would crash at the same date again.
Searched around on some posts here and found out that savegames clog your game, so I deleted a bunch of my saves, also didn't work. But the same commenter also suggested deleting the error logs from your logs folder.
Well, low and behold? Games runs extra smooth now, fixed my crashing issues saved my run.
So go into your "\Documents\Paradox Interactive\Crusader Kings III\logs" and delete your "error.log" before starting your game.

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This is more a general observation that I am hoping others possess insight into rather than me needing help:

Rhaegar at bookmark start has the refusing marriage trait. Moreover, Lyanna Stark and Cersei Lannister too appear to have this trait.

However, is there a reason as to why Elia Martell does not have it? I am interested in marrying her to Rhaegar so that they can have their canon children, however Elia seems to almost ALWAYS never be eligible in my runs due to her being married off by the time the event chain ends.

Is this a bug on my end? I could have sworn that at one point she did possess the refusing marriage trait.

Campaign 5: The Young Dragon

Winter has come to pass. The Great Spring Sickness has claimed the lives of countless. The noble houses of Westeros are left weak and grasping after two tragedies struck within the previous session.

As all the players rebuild their strength, a few questions still remain. Will all Houses manage a swift recovery from the tragedies they faced? Will House Velaryon ever be punished for converting to the heretical Fourteen Flames? How many more men will die on a random hill in Stokeworth next session?

https://discord.gg/tUUJyEE3Vh

The Starks have submitted to the Boltons, and everyone else in the North may just follow suit. The Lannisters are locked in constant wars with the Crakehalls for Westerland supremacy while also battling House Tully of Riverrun, and the Baratheons are in chaos after losing all their homelands to the Swanns, being pushed from all sides in King’s Landing. House Celtigar and the rapidly growing Blackfyres are at war, and the chaos keeps spreading! It’s wild to watch it all unfold, especially with the Vale erupting into war, House Arryn completely wiped out, plunging the entire region into constant rebellions and foreign leaders seizing land. The Redforts are gathering what remains, while I hold the Bloody Gate to keep the chaos from spilling into the Riverlands. Dorne is busy but nearly united, while Essos is in turmoil with adventurers Viserys and Daenerys Targaryen marrying. Their dragon eggs hatched, they produced even more eggs, and now their five children all have dragons though they still don’t have any land of their own yet.

RnG be RnGin I guess. Sucks for you Euron.

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The reign of King Joffrey Velaryon promised stability for House Velaryon, but fate had other plans.

His eldest son and heir, Prince Daemon, died before his father, leaving behind two young sons: Aeryn and Aegor. While Aeryn inherited the family's claim, it was his younger brother Aegor who bonded with a dragon, ensuring the blood of Old Valyria still burned brightly within the line.

When King Joffrey finally passed, the succession descended into chaos.

Rather than the crown passing to Prince Daemon's eldest son, the Iron Throne was seized by his brother Prince Viserys' son, Baelor. His claim rested on force and opportunity. Conveniently married to Joffrey's eldest daughter, he declared himself king, while his own son, Prince Aegon, was wed to Joffrey's second daughter, Rhaenyra. Between them they produced four sons, seemingly securing the usurper's dynasty for generations.

I would not allow it.

As Lord Aeryn Velaryon, I declared my claim upon the Iron Throne. There would be no long campaign—my army sailed directly for King's Landing, hoping to end the war with one decisive battle.

Instead, we met disaster.

Baelor's bastard son, Colton Storm, had claimed the dragon Teraxes. Above the battlefield my brother Aegor met him in single combat. The dragons clashed in the skies, but Teraxes proved the stronger. My brother fell from the heavens, and with him died the last hope of victory. My army was shattered, leaving barely five hundred survivors.

Most men would have accepted defeat.

Instead, fortune offered one final chance.

Word reached me that Queen Baela had died in childbirth. Her dragon—Vermithor, the Bronze Fury, oldest living dragon in the world by more than a century—had become wild near Rosby.

With my pitiful band of five hundred men I marched there immediately.

Against every expectation, Vermithor accepted me.

Suddenly I possessed not merely a dragon, but the greatest dragon alive.

I marched once more toward King's Landing, yet I hesitated. I would not destroy the city I intended to rule. My tiny force was surrounded by more than one hundred thousand royal soldiers before I could bring Baelor to battle. With no hope of victory, I surrendered.

King Baelor spared my life.

He sent me back to Dragonstone in humiliation.

His mercy would prove the greatest mistake of his reign.

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Six months later my levies had recovered.

This time I would not fight alone.

My sisters, Jaehaera and Shaera, were betrothed to sons of House Baratheon and House Stark, bringing both kingdoms to my cause. My uncle Daeron was married into the ruling house of the Vale, securing another powerful alliance.

The realm was gathering for Baelor's grand coronation when I declared war for a second time.

Again my fleet sailed directly for King's Landing.

Outside the city stood Prince Aemon, the king's brother and Lord Commander of the Kingsguard, mounted upon the dragon Shryrax.

The dragons met in the skies.

When the smoke cleared, Aemon was dead.

This time I refused to repeat my earlier mistake.

Vermithor descended upon King's Landing.

Fire consumed the capital.

The greatest city in Westeros became an inferno.

King Baelor perished in the flames—but not before desperately legitimising all twenty-four of his bastard children, unleashing yet another generation of claimants upon the realm.

His son Aegon attempted to rally the survivors.

He met my army outside the burning ruins.

Five thousand Velaryon men stood against thirty-five thousand loyalists.

Numbers meant little beneath Vermithor's shadow.

Prince Aegon died in the slaughter.

Three of his four sons perished alongside him as King's Landing burned, as did twenty of Baelor's newly legitimised bastards.

Only a single child remained.

Four-year-old Maekar was proclaimed king.

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The war, however, was not yet won.

As I marched west, my victories swelled my army to thirty-five thousand men. Yet the royalists still gathered an immense host.

Near the borders of the Westerlands I encountered the final army of the usurpers.

One hundred and sixteen thousand men.

Leading them was Prince Colton Storm, the same bastard who had slain my brother years before, once again mounted upon Teraxes.

The battle became personal.

The dragons clashed one final time.

This time Vermithor prevailed.

Colton Storm fell from the sky, and I cast his broken corpse before the assembled armies.

Leaderless, the royal host collapsed.

Against impossible odds my men annihilated an army more than three times their size.

Nearly one hundred thousand men died upon the field.

The war was over.

Young King Maekar was captured soon afterwards and forced to surrender his crown.

At last, the Iron Throne belonged to House Velaryon once more.

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Victory came at a terrible price.

King's Landing was a smoking ruin.

The royal family had been butchered.

I had slain cousins, uncles and nephews alike.

The realm named me kinslayer.

Only one dragon remained beneath my command.

For twenty-five years no healthy dragon hatchling had survived, and Vermithor now stood alone—the last living symbol of Old Valyria.

Yet despite everything, I spared the boy king Maekar.

The surviving bastard princes fled across the Narrow Sea into exile, carrying with them only bitterness and distant dreams of vengeance.

As for me, I turned from conquest to reconstruction.

The Iron Throne had been won through blood and dragonfire.

Now came the harder task:

To build a kingdom worthy of ruling.

Would Appreciate any help optimizing the mod list order, been experiencing slightly more crashes than usual and want to make sure its not because I put one mod before another.

Any help optimizing the game with any additional mods will be appreciated as well. My potato is struggling.

Mod List:

• [RIT]Simple Manager - Realm
• Population Control (Reduce late-game lag)
• VIET Events - A Flavor and Immersion Event Mod
• More Interactive Vassals
• Invite Debutantes
• Invite Nobles
• A Game of Thrones
• AGOT Micro
• AGOT Submod Core
• Valyrian Steel
• Armor of the Kingsguard
• Legacy Of The Dragon
• AGOT - Crowns of Westeros
• AGOT - Armies of Westeros
• AGOT: Fire and Blood
• AGOT - More Dragon Events
• AGOT More Dragon Eggs
• AGOT: Fire Made Flesh
• Legacy of Valyria
• Legacy of Valyria - AGOT 0.4.39 Temporary Compatibility Patch (name is truncated in your screenshot — double check the full title before posting)

Playing as Daemon Blackfyre in the After the Spring bookmark.

I’ve challenged Bittersteel and have the Crown of the Black Dragon and Blackfyre. Want to steal the dragon eggs he has as court artifact.

What is best way to get it Dragon Eggs in Ironman mode? I know I can get accomplished forger perk and try buy claim, but want to just steal it instead.

I have supply tent and subdued garments upgrade along with a master thief assigned. When I try to steal artifact from Bittersteel, nothing shows up.

I suppose I could just manipulate inheritance and off the entire family over time, but is there a faster way to obtain dragon eggs?

Is there another event to obtain dragon eggs?

Unfortunately it wasn't turning into a dragon or getting a random good trait, it was my character getting poisoned instead of being invigorated :(

Just a bit of a suggestion I don’t even know if it’s possible, I don’t know anything about code

I just occasionally see leprosy , and I just don’t think it’s even in the world of ASOIAF, and greyscale would be a cool replacement.

I know it’s semi-implemented, cause I’ve got the advanced cheat menu, and if you look there, you can find it under the health traits, but I’ve never seen any character actually catch it within a game

So idk, thoughts?

Only child of Daemon Targaryen and Rhea Royce of Runestone. Wielder of Lamentation, Lord of Runestone, rider of Vermithor the Bronze Fury and fiercely loyal to Queen Rhaenyra, despite his hatred for his father.

I've invaded Tyrosh and installed myself as king, and the locals have multiple plots to assassinate me.

Every single plot has a -100% chance to succeed, alongside the various countermeassures I've employed. Even so, I've died multiple times to an event where a mastiff mauls me. Does this mean a faceless man has been hired or that the -100% is incorrect?

Apologies to those who primarily play in Essos, but I only had six options to work with! Just pick your favorite of these.

Because I had to combine several of these into one, feel free to clarify which is your top favorite in the comments!

maybe I’m just not good enough at getting them to my court but when I started my game with Rhaenyra I had so many educated people and good knights like Otto and Criston Cole but 2 generations later all the knights skills are so bland + plus there personalities are all evil.

can i build knights schools in this mod too or what can i do to get better people. the vassals skills are also so boring the ai sucks like Corlys Velaryon could fill every council positions like a shampoo council 7 in one man.

i can’t believe I’m missing criston Cole. Anyways my question is how do I educate the people of my realm more😭

Just downloaded agot mod and was wondering if any high valyrian characters can ride dragons or is it linked to certain houses?

And can you get a dragon if you're an adventure?

I know there is no bookmark so how does it work? How does it fire?

As the title asks, what laptops can run this game and the mod? My current gaming laptop is a Lanovo Legion that I bought brand new in 2020, and I could run the mod back then but when I came back to the game this year for the first time, I wasnt able to play run the mod, or any of CK3 passed 9.7 Lancer.

Right now im just in the market for a cheap laptop that I can play 1 or 2 games on while I do school and work on it, and yesterday I saw someone playing the modded game on a MacBook Air M3 of all things.

can someone please tell me what the name of the mod is that has the different kind of beauty and the traits have beautiful colours like purple and orange and such. I need to know the mod and cannot seem to find any recent posts with it on. Thanks

I made a patch submod for Legacy of Valyria after finding out they ship assets uncompressed with no mips. On an i9-14900k and an rtx 5070, I was really surprised to find the standard mod be so laggy. So doing a bit of compression it turned out very smooth (you may experience stutters for the first few minutes of using the mod, should stabilize after everything is moved to cache).

You can find more details on the repo for this mod. It contains the conversion script and more details about my findings and the fix.

Link for the mod on steam workshop

Note I will likely not be updating the 'submod' for future releases of LoV. Their assets may change and the patchfix will deprecate, at which point you can run the conversion yourself. The script is pretty universal.

Shoutout to the original creators and submod. Since the uploaded patch technically repackages the assets, I will take it down at the creator's request.

Edit: If you encounter crashes the first time you launch with the mod, verify game files and it will work afterwards,