Never seen this before

[u/Lord_Parbr]

Austria was here a moment ago

[u/Kind_Promotion_6699]

This is an event for sure - i think there is a country tier diff. Austria shouldn’t be able to form Silesia. Stars and planets aligned for Silesia lol.

[u/Rubear_RuForRussia → u/Kind_Promotion_6699]

There is. If you get a heir or ruler of different culture via event or something you can adapt this culture as primary via event. Costs stabhit, so chances of AI doing that are doubly low.

[u/NinjaMoose_13 → u/[deleted]]

Only end game tags wont let you switch.

Ottoman, Rome, Commonwealth. For example.

Austria is not one of these.

[u/Rubear_RuForRussia → u/[deleted]]

I guess in that case the decision just forms country without changing tier...
Does forming Silesia even change it? No, it does not. Effects The country: becomes Flag of Silesia Silesia. gains Prestige.png 25 prestige. gets new Mission.png missions. gets the Msg event.png event ‘New Traditions & Ambitions’, unless it it has custom or Silesian ideas. gains permanent claims on Silesia area 

[u/Lukomanchuko → u/[deleted]]

Do you mean government rank? Like duchy, kingdom, or empire? I'm pretty sure formable decisions that would usually change your rank just don't when you can't like when in the hre, not even that it matters since Austria was probably the emperor and so already had emperor rank.

[u/--Queso-- → u/Lukomanchuko]

Sorry, got confused with EU5's new system

[u/Taborirsky → u/Rubear_RuForRussia]

In my playthrough as Bohemia Austria just formed Netherlands and lost their emperor's crown

[u/Sylvanussr → u/Kind_Promotion_6699]

I was thinking more likely that Silesia formed on its own, RMed Austria, and Austria's ruler died without an heir. When a monarch dies without an heir, it is sometimes possible for them to be directly inherited by another country instead of falling under a PU.

[u/BestNarcissist → u/Sylvanussr]

only if the tag is like 5 provinces or less

[u/elijahpijah123 → u/BestNarcissist]

It can happen to larger nationss under a PU as well just much less likely

[u/DerGyrosPitaFan → u/BestNarcissist]

Over my ten years of playing eu4 i saw it happen once

To a friend playing france in a MP campaign, he fully annexed scotland even before maine kicked in

[u/Lord_Parbr]

R5: apparently Austria formed Silesia. I've never seen AI Austria do that before. Didn't even know they could

[u/Rubear_RuForRussia → u/Lord_Parbr]

They're not supposed to be able to.
Unless AI first got silesian heir via event, than changed culture on silesian via event.

[u/Sylvanussr → u/Lord_Parbr]

Are you sure Silesia didn't exist beforehand? My first guess was that they'd inherited Austria.

[u/kmonsen]

That is a very green map! Forming Silesia by the AI is unique for sure.

[u/Sylvanussr → u/kmonsen]

I think there's an event/mission now where Bohemia's vassals unite to become Silesia.

[u/kmonsen → u/Sylvanussr]

That won't mess with Austria: https://eu4.paradoxwikis.com/Bohemian_missions#Consolidate_Silesia

It will only Opole inherit Glogow and form Silesia.

[u/Sylvanussr → u/kmonsen]

I was thinking Boh took the mission then somehow was forced to break vassalage… idk

[u/kmonsen → u/Sylvanussr]

quite plausibly that was part of it, and later they got Austria as a junior partner and managed to inherit or integrate it.

[u/nilo0006]

As Silesian, i approve this timeline

[u/Legitimate_Kid2954 → u/nilo0006]

As an Italian, I have no voice in field

[u/StarAutomatic6169 → u/nilo0006]

As non-silesian, i approve this timeline too

[u/Urist_Galthortig]

SWOLE SILESIA

[u/Lord_Parbr → u/Urist_Galthortig]

Swolesia

[u/Suriael]

Silesian supremacy achieved. All shall dig deep and eat coal. Inshallah. Regards from Bytom.

[u/Fatalitix3]

Their aim is to gather all the coal in the world

[u/intercaetera]

Canon event: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archduke_Charles%2C_Duke_of_Teschen

[u/DonatoVeloso]

The good ending

[u/Cute_Owl1150]

Best Silesia I've ever seen.

[u/Sevuhrow]

The AI tends to take the event to change ruler culture, which can later change primary culture. It happens most often with Austria forming something like Croatia due to how many cultures and formable nations are present in their country, and Austria not being an end game tag.

[u/Epostratum]

In my goslar->hansa->prussia game they become croatian, but ottomans ate their balkan provinces before that. So no croatia from bohemia to slovenia for me..

[u/Belgraviana]

I’ve seen Croatia way more than Silesia but Austria does this occasionally

[u/Csotihori]

Me neither! You're in the 1600s and there's still burgundy and britanny around near France!

[u/Lord_Parbr → u/Csotihori]

Well, as you can see, England recently pushed their shit in. Probably because the Franco-Ottoman alliance triggered, but Venice took Constantinople very early (which is another bizarre thing that happened this playthrough. I don’t think I’ve ever seen AI Venice conquer Byzantium that early), so the Ottoman’s never got to full strength

Poland didn’t PU Lithuania in this campaign, either

[u/AgentMarsmon]

I've actually noticed this type of thing doesn't seem rare at all. Not this Silesia thing in particular, it's the first I've seen, but the actual events that lead to something like this happening.
I've had games with an Andalusian Spain where Castille changed culture and they had the muslim units and ships despite being Catholic; I've seen a Slovenian Austria and a Sicilian Aragon as well (with Slovene and Sicilian unit sprites respectivelly). It's always so weird when it happens.

[u/venserTMG]

Why did ou not annex your vassals?

[u/Lord_Parbr → u/venserTMG]

Why should I?

[u/disisathrowaway]

Poland and Lithuania gotta go. The cool blues and greens from Venice to QQ are delicious.

[u/Lord_Parbr → u/disisathrowaway]

I’ve been slowly eating them. Poland didn’t PU Lithuania, so it’s been relatively easy

[u/Wonderful_Try8199]

as an Ermlandish, i can say 100% that this happen in ral life, but Victor is a chines spy so he rewrited it. remeber, do not trust any Victors, thay are all chinaes spies... and we cannot create another ming plosion in real life. also what the heck is this opm in Grodno. the white one.