okay, got the game a couple days ago
started as count of antalos because i was feeling like not having kingly or imperative responsibility in my third game
...and then, over the course of about 30 seconds, I noticed a revolt was going on in Harer, I sent some troops to help out... and my liege duke, Amare of Damot, started a faction to set me up as king, sent out an ultimatum immediately, which the king just frigging accepted, so now I'm king of abyssinia. That's strange. I guess there's some claim there, since the king was my cousin (I think we shared a grandparent? I didn't really pay attention to the king, since I had a duke to worry about more).
also i'm slightly worried about inbreeding since my white son married a white girl who I think may be from the same dynasty as his white mother
...but they're second cousins at closest i'm pretty sure
maybe i should stop marrying princesses of the byzantine empire if i'm really worried about the possibility of inbreeding, huh
EDIT: ugh, ruler of the byzantine empire is asking me to join a holy war, which sorta sucks since literally everyone around is muslim (my borders are entirely shi'ite, except assab, which is sunni
also, he's my son's uncle... and his wife's father, oh, i guess that inbreeding's worse than i thought