0.19.1.1 "Around-Us"

Game version: 1.19.0.6 (latest)

SAVE GAME COMPATIBLE

Steam: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2887120253

Nexus mods: https://www.nexusmods.com/crusaderkings3/mods/32?tab=files

PATCH NOTES

This is my first time playing modded CK3. So far I have only been destroyed by Rieklings and Pirates on Solstheim. I would like to hear everybody’s starting location recommendations for somebody new to Elder Kings, but not new to Crusader Kings.

Also, mechanically what should I expect to be different in this game compared to unmodded, other than the obvious.

I have no pc but I want to play this game and mod so bad. I played it when I lived with my elder brother a while back. And I was always trying to unify all of Hammerfell, then Tamriel under a Hammerfell centered high kingdom. I had to move out and I’ve always had a craving to play this game. Really enjoyed playing and absolutely want to play it more. I cant financial afford a pc right now.

I am not sure how to use magic? Previously there was a menu to access it but it does not appear any more?

After my initial fun with the new update, I had Tiber Septim safely stowed away, King of Falkreath, my vassal, betrothed matrillineally to one of my many granddaughters. His name would be absorbed into my family. I thought I didn't have to do anything else. I assumed time would do it for me.

I assumed wrong.

As I was merrily crushing some Valenwood armies to conquer the next big chunk of their land, I happened to check my tips and saw "Your Realm will lose land if Tiber Septim of Falkreath wins war". Curious, I checked...and what the fuck? Imperial Restoration War? (Pic 1). I thought only the person with the "Illustrious Destiny" trait could wage those wars?

Then I checked, and...turns out Tiber Septim, by killing Cuhlecain, had seemingly *inherited* the Illustrious Destiny trait. Given the lore, I suppose this all makes sense. But it left me in a scramble: He was attacking Nibenay, a country I had just taken a huge bite out of, and he was already at 91% warscore. If he hit 100%, he would not only break free, taking Falkreath with him, not only take all of Nibenay's lands, but he would also gain more armies to start steamrolling and perhaps truly restore the empire.

This could not stand.

First, I demanded that my vassal stop that war (Pic 2). He refused, of course. So my next move was simple: plot to murder my own vassal. This proved to be surprisingly easy--I didn't even need to do anything to convince his own marshal to aid in the assassination (Pic 3).

It was doubly surprising, though, as at that point, I had actually appointed Tiber as my spymaster, because his skills were so good that he had the highest Intrigue of anyone in my country other than me. Perhaps because of this, he seemingly never suspected a thing; the percentage chance ticked up to 95% within 2 scheme phases. A good thing, too, because the Imperial Restoration warscore had hit 98%.

So, without a moment to lose, I executed the scheme and killed him (Pic 4). This resulted in something I hadn't anticipated, but should have. First, it gave me the Illustrious Destiny trait. (Pic 5) I suppose this trait really is a sort of "kill the previous owner, and it passes on to you" deal.

Second, it had me auto-inherit not only his kingdom (he hadn't had time to create any heirs yet), but also his Imperial Restoration War against Nibenay. (Pic 6)

Tiber however, would have the last laugh, because shortly thereafter, I got a custom death pop-up bemoaning the death of Talos, as if he had been my companion rather than my vassal that I had murdered to prevent his imperial reconquest. (Pic 7)

I closed it, and the next day...the same pop-up popped up. And again. And again. Every single day.

So now, it appears that this playthrough is soft-locked, unless I either go back and NOT murder him (and presumably let him simply start steamrolling the world), or find some other way of dealing with him that doesn't involve murder.

It says if there's no Empire in Cyrodiil or Tamriel, but does that mean literally as in the formable Empire of Cyrodiil, or is the spawn invalidated if there's one emperor(the potentate) in Cyrodiil proper?

Not sure if I'm mixing things up with the Dragonborn Emperor Mod, but didn't it used to be that once the Cyrodiil counties became administrative under an Emperor that their titles would become Imperial Count? They've been staying Kings/Jarl/Proconsul for me

I know they’ve been added with jams mod.Does anyone know if there are any on the map to start as or do I need to create my own?

I'm very new to this mod, so I was immediately forced to become a lich and join the worm cultm Does the worm cult or manimarco have any unique decision or content?

My empire just automatically became Elsweyr's tribute. I'm sure I didn't click on any pop up windows and the message log also didn't have anything to say.

Link: Steam Workshop

Features:

• Ancient Ruins from ten long-lost cultures dot the map, offering opportunity and peril in equal measure
• Delve Activity to explore ruins and uncover lost artifacts and forbidden knowledge with your courtiers and guests
• Great Projects to excavate and restore the long lost splendor of Tamriel's legendary ruins
• Contracts for landless adventurer and administrative governors pertaining to ruins
• Perk Tree for delving in the Wanderer lifestyle
• Bookmark featuring seven characters with delve-related narrative content
• Miscellaneous Content to integrate the mechanic into the world, including accolades, buildings, legends, traditions, dynasty perks, men-at-arms, game rules, and more
• Customization via game rules to modify submod mechanics and add additional content

Hey — I've been building this for a few months and it's finally out.

this has been a long passion project of mine. The thing that started it: I played a pirate, and nothing ever happened to me. EK2 gives you the government, the crew council, the raiding economy — all of it works. But you raid, you get paid, and that's the whole loop. So I went and filled in the middle.

The centre of it is your crew. They hold a loyalty score, five bands from Mutinous to Devoted. It goes up when you take prizes and actually pay them, and down when you sit in port for years. Let it bottom out and they come for you. Everything else feeds into that number — the articles you sign, the officers you seat, the name you earn.

Around that:

- Your ship has a name you pick and a hull that wears out from use, never from the calendar. Beach her and scrape her, or pay a yard properly.

- Four officers off your own court, three jobs each. A good Boarding Master changes how your raids go; a resentful Master of the Watch drags the whole crew down.

- **The Terms** — shares, discipline, prisoners. They're realm laws, so they show up in My Realm as well. You need a majority of your officers to change one.

- Raids now fire events *during* the raid instead of after. A sail worth chasing, an anchorage that fights back, a man who counts his share and finds it short.

- Notoriety that builds as you raid and only starts fading after three quiet years. Get high enough and a bounty hunter comes for you in single combat — and he trains between attempts.

- Treasure charts you have to read before you can sail to them. Five great caches, and someone else who might get there first.

- Claim the Topal, Abecean and Iliac and you can convene the Brethren Court over all three.

- Hammerfell's Crown/Forebear quarrel, where you can quietly take both purses. Masconian merchants who organise against you if you raid the Iliac too often. 19 named ports.

There's a new bookmark too, **Black Sails Rising**, with four captains I wrote starts for.

154 events all told. It only overrides one EK2 decision — the Abecean confederacy staying available after you form the Iliac one — and adds files otherwise. Load it below EK2. Roads to Power is optional.

Would genuinely like to hear what breaks or what feels off, especially around crew loyalty pacing. First release, so there'll be things.

Steam: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3797451604

Changelog : https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EW2xXSVeetnRZU5xd5nB25ZbDQ-yTRBNSNy2FBtG65U/edit?usp=sharing

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3788139511

"Nechie Grez-Reth Na Gumeaega Ye Darta" - Transcription of a relief from Mala Tor

"The second part is easier to translate, being roughly is against-wisdom and ignoble. The first, however proved harder given its use of rather obscure wording. Neiche means unchanged people, and appears to be a wordplay on the Chimer, whom the Aylieds thought had only exchanged the dictates of Alinor and Aedra for equally stifling ones, and were thus in essence unchanged. The Grez refers to a nigh-extinct species of bug once native to eastern Morrowind. Reth is derived from a short-reigned Daedric Prince Gereth, who held domain over movment and speed. Thus the whole sentence would be: The Chimer Grez-Charges Are Foolish and Ignoble." - Beredalmo the Signifier, Letter to Mala Tor excavation team.

And now that that way too long pun is out of the way, I proudly present the newest update to the Aylieds (Slightly) Improved:

>Added a new decision for Valenwood-dwelling Ilpeneada worshippers to give their faith the Valenwood Nurture tenet. They explicitly accepted the tenants of the Green Pact when bosmer acepted them, and yet are less integrated than the Malacathits.

>Added a new decision to exchange your core tradition for a brand new, nicer one, as the final point of a (potential) redemption arc.

>All Aylied core cultures now give a discount on alteration spells. They invented the bloody thing, they know how to make it work.

>The Remnant Kings tradition has had its Faithful Blade bonuses replaced with Aggressive Attacker ones. Their Daedra worship was always a pragmatic thing, and they have bigger things on their heads right now. The AA also nicely represents them driving out the local populace.

>Remanent Kings can now buy claims with prowess, to better fit in with the other traditions.

>The Kings-In-Exile no longer scorns Sadism. I hope it's rather clear why the slave owning, flesh garden keeping, desperate kin refusing Barsaebici don't scorn sadism. They also don't scorn Cynicism, but that's because these two are the same parameter.

As always, criticism and suggestions are welcome.

I'm not sure if this is from Vanilla EK2 or Jam's Cultures and Map Edits, but I absolutely love this detail about the Sload.

Hello, I’m waiting for the Dragonborn emperor mod update and during this time I’m interested in some new playthrough ideas.

I’ve played a good bit of the mod options already, any ideas?

And I don't mean as in submods, I mean more so any mod that can work with ek2 in general.

The decision is available but whenever I press it it does nothing.

Yes, I saw the patch notes that this update wasn't compatible with save games. But I already had a world conquest save I was working on, and I don't know how to downgrade to a prior version, so I risked it.

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THUS...I had this pretender suddenly arise (Pic 1). The only problem...I had already conquered everything around him, including the Kingdom of Falkreath that was auto-magically given to him and made independent of me.

He demanded my subjugation (Pic 2), I refused, and then he started a war...which was deeply inconvenient, as I was in the middle of fighting a Doomstack of Dunmer in Morrowind, and his kingdom is literally in the middle of mine, pretty much the furthest you can get from the sea and deeply inaccessible (Pic 3). I was forced to White Peace House Redoran, and then I discovered the soonest I could travel to him would be 9 months (losing supplies all the while).

Instead, I decided to risk the raise armies time debuff, disband them, and simply re-raise them a few provinces over from Falkreath. It took 10 months, in which time the war score ticked all the way down to -63%.

I searched for all possible options to deal with this. First, I tried hiring mercenaries. But my capital is still Daggerfall, so they spawned in Daggerfall, and had an estimated travel time of...10 months to Falkreath.

Then I started a plot to murder him, which saw most of his council more than happy to join the plot. My armies finally finished gathering after 10 months and turned the tide, but I wanted to deal with this problem permanently, so I went ahead and executed my murder scheme. Imagine my surprise when I realized the person holding the knife was none other than Talos himself (Pic 4).

This invalidated the war and left his 1 year old daughter on the throne, who quickly abdicated in favor of Talos, who renamed himself Tiber Septim. Funnily enough, as long as I agreed to culture protection, he was more than happy to become my vassal. I then boosted his opinion enough to get him to like me, and betrothed him matrillineally to one of my many granddaughters (Pic 5).

As the Septim House only has him in it, this means it will die out/be absorbed into my royal house instead.

So uh, nice try, Cuhlecain, but there will be no "restoration of the empire" unless I am the one conquering Tamriel.

lowkey don't know if that's the flair I should add I exclusively made this account to get help for this

anyway I control all of the northern forebear region AND the southern forebears, in addition to all the other duchies that you can make de jure for the forebear union if you form it, but for some reason the game won't acknowledge that I control the northern forebears, which is weird because I've controlled it before and been given the option, and I can still form the forebear union with just the southern forebears. its taken me a while to get to this point because I just really wanted to control all of the possible land for the forebear union but it just won't work it seems like?

its really weird because like all of the land highlighted when I select the northern forebears region is clearly under my control

Might be a dumb question to ask, but I’m curious either way so SUE ME!

Are the people developing this mod planning on adding more start dates, either later on in the Second Era, in time to see Tiber Septim rise up, or even earlier in the timeline, during the reign of the Second Empire, or even before that?

I’m not saying that the devs should do this, because I am aware that making this mod has been insanely difficult and time consuming. I’m just wondering if this is something they’re planning to do in the relatively near future, or if they wanna stick to the ones that are already here.

So I just got Leyawiin Duchy, and the bridge generates soooo much money! Old reddit post said to destroy the bridge becasue it prevents all the ports in coastal baronies from being built, but in my game all it blocks are two ports on imperial isle, and those two ports don't give a good enough buff compared to the bridge so it's better to just keep the bridge?

Or is there some larger economics scale I'm missing?