The Continuing Adventures of the Forsaken Slave Ragnarr Refr!Happy Monday, and to celebrate, I have an update of this wonderful LP for you!
(Warning, this update is a little heavy on the pictures; I’ll probably use less in future updates)
We start off with my wanting to appoint somebody other than myself as commander, as I have no heir and thus we lose if I die. But I can’t for unknown reasons, so might as well play as a Viking!
Throughout this update, our liege keeps trying to get me as his commander. I may be willing to risk my neck and our dynasty for greater glory of our family, but I’ll be damned if I’ll risk it for a liege I never wanted. His ulterior motives will be revealed in time.
I also repeatedly try to raid our neighbors, only to have to run away as they outnumber me. I can’t siege them faster than they can respond, sigh.
After getting my three concubines, I become engaged to an infant, because her father commands a vast army (relative to mine, anyways). He don’t like me enough to form an alliance, so I start saving for gold to bribe him. Marriages for "large tracts of land" will have to wait for another LP, merchant republics don't often inherit like that.
And a completely asinine event fires. Do I want to pick a trait that only hurts me, or should I pick a trait that only helps? Duh, of course I chose to become Just! Is there ever any good reason to become Arbirtary, except for the lutz?
Then I get a new courtier though event, that I fail to use in any meaningful way throughout this update. Never even bothered to look at his stats. Still, should I ever become a
duke Jarl, I’ll give the Eunuch lands, knowing he can’t have sons and thus having them revert to
me!
Yay, my concubine is pregnant! Too bad she dies shortly afterwards, before she can produce that most valuable heir.
My future father-in-law died, leaving his less-competent son in charge. But fortunately, he likes me just a bit better than his father did, and we have our ally!
I help my future brother-in-law by leading our combined armies to great victory against his foes, worthy of chronicling in the Heimskringla Saga!
Not really, I’ll be fighting several more battles, although this is the only one where I’m not purely helping myself. Obviously helping our ally win his war is still dripping with self-interest, but it does help him arguably more than me. Fun fact: Our ally was hiding his army on that island next to Uppland until I went over there with my army and set them to follow. So he would have lost without me. Guess I'm useful after all, yay!
I receive the event from our spymaster where he gives us tech points. This is vital, as it is probably the most likely way that we’ll be able to learn Town Infrastructure One, without which we can not build our city.
Our first new dynasty member, and my first opportunity to enshrine the Paradox Staff! I pick the current project lead for the CK2 expansion as detailed
here. Unfortunately, women generally can’t inherit tribes, but I think her children will be able to act as heirs. Maybe?
I attribute an upbringing of Duty, which will likely lead to her being Conscientious, noble traits in both the mother of our future dynasty and a project lead.
Our sweet sovereign, being the inheritor of our single county, has decided to try and kill us, FOR A SINGLE COUNTY! This guy, throughout this update, repeatedly subjugates everyone around him, yet out of his many, many subjects, we’re the one that must die for him to grow +1. Needless to say, I start up the Independence faction, although I’m doubtful we’ll live to see it succeed. What a dick.
Our liege then slanders us, giving his cause to arrest us. The fact that he does not in fact arrest us means I really can’t be too bitter, although it still hangs over our heads, I guess. Suffice to say, should we end up in his jail cell, we’ll soon be dead.
With all these dark clouds over our heads, it is time to act. I launch a subjugation
outside of our home kingdom, thus it is the only one we’ll be doing with this character (probably), but we need more land. Plus, it borders lands that we can Single County Conquest. Our alliance bears fruit, and we go from 1 to 3 counties!
I then do that promised Single County Conquest, and capture two children of the Chieftain. He then sues for peace, and I stupidly accept, losing the children and that sweet, sweet Wergild!
So we finally have enough territory to create a
dukedom jarldom. But we can’t, because our current liege is a Jarl. This is important, because we need to be a
duke jarl or higher in order to found a merchant republic. Oh well, its not like we could afford it anyways.
For some reason, we can’t do Single County Conquest on this Asshat, for reasons unknown to me. One of my few complaints about this gem of a game is that very few things are properly explained, such as why I can’t Single County Conquest this guy. He borders me, after all.
Well, that is enough for today, here is our current hero.
And here is the territory of our liege, the Great Jarl Sigurd Hring Af Munso. Guess who had the better run?
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