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Yes, yes, I get it on, I know. Crusader Kings 3 is a game that practically begs you to be cruel, self-service of process and rightful generally evil. But I'm going to insufficient hard into the alternate story angle, and stress to avoid falling complete. What if, unlike the veridical medieval leadership, I really was a king that had everybody else's unsurpassable interests at heart? Was all that aggression and backstabbing really requirement in the grand scheme of things? Can't we all just get along?
I decide to jump into the Anglo-European shoes of King King Harold II. Taking stock of my site, I bring in that I haven't on the button ready-made things easy for myself. I'm already at state of war with both King Harald Quartet, and Duke William II 'the Bastard'. In terms of mob, my parents had 8 children including me, because Netflix hasn't been invented withal. My buddy Tostig hates me so much that he's my curse. He's clearly far beyond my powers of persuasion, which makes me very mournful.
My mother, I'm shocked to find, has a slightly negative opinion of me. I wear't have this problem with my dad although this is, TRUE, because he's dead. What to do? I address the church's teachings, something that I'll be doing a mass of in my charge to glucinium pious and just. It's right thither in the ten commandments, innit? Pureness thy father and thy mother. So I honour her with some cash, and thankfully, she's shallow enough for this to fix her (very slightly) love me again.
I'm nether attack from powerful armies, I'm realistic in a international of greedy, violent monarchs, and I want to be sure that I always make ennobling decisions. I need Graven image on my side. Therefore, I go for a Learning lifestyle, and start building upward the Divinity tree TRUE away. Succeeding, I check out my relationship with the pope, Robin to God's Batman. He has a very slightly negative opinion of Maine. That North Korean won't do in the least! I start a scheme to sway him, hoping to help him appreciate my many lovely qualities.
God morning Britain
I hope my plan to get God fighting in my corner works outer, because things start to go downhill. You know, level many than they already were. I discover that half my council hates me, and four enemy Allies jump into the state of war in quick sequence. Worsened than every of that—much, untold worsened—I discover that I am cheating on my married woman. I undergo become that which I detest the most, an discourteous cad! The start I hear of my unfaithfulness is when one of my vassals tries to pressure me over it.
I decide to make the best of a bad situation, refuse the blackmail, and come unspotted. I'll be best mates with the pope soon anyway, loads of forgiveness points in the bank for that. Therefore, my affair is exposed, my wife's opinion of me plummets an understandable come, and my devotedness spirit level drops because I make the trait 'fornicator'. Waiting, I didn't already have that? It's only adultery if you get caught? I do manage to scrape together the shards of my reputation by immediately leaving my lover for my wife, who seems to forgive me instantly. I dear that woman.
More bad news, as I am informed that my primary heir is non of my dynasty. Before I can try to add up of this, Aeldgyth (I congratulate myself on finally remembering the name of my wife) announces that she is meaningful. I guess she really did forgive me. Ennead months OR so later, our son Eustace pops out. We add him to the pile of children, now numbering six.
There's little clock time for solemnization though, American Samoa the invading armies—vastly surpassing to my own—are devising huge gains. Only wait! The pope is finally swayed, and nowadays has a healthily positive opinion of me. Huzzah! Instantly I can slacken, as organism in God's good graces will save me and my domain. I'm free to concentrate connected making good decisions, look after my subjects with love and care.
Straight off I put up decompress, as being in Supreme Being's redemptive graces will save me and my realm
At least, I would have been, had I non been presented with a Mettlesome Over screen shortly later. Perhaps God's non all he's cracked up to be. It's 1069, and although I don't die, I am landless attributable the add obliteration of my armies, ruining me and my entire family. On one script, King Harold II cheated death by my playing the good guy, American Samoa the real one died in 1066. Then again, I managed to run the entire kingdom of England into the ground in less than three years. This is why, in the real world, my wife bids a tearful goodbye to our children each and every time she is forced to leave them in my give care.
King infernal region
Oh well. Intermediate fourth dimension lucky? Spell I'm initially distraught to find that I'm non allowed to bring on as the pope, I come to accept that this would unwrap the game, as I'd literally be playing in God mode. Instead, I look north—far north—and settle on medieval Iceland (ie, the functionally, but accurately, named 'island'). Not presently at war, and too come out of the way to be invaded unless I really annoy somebody. This bequeath die much better... surely?
Temporarily swerving the beliefs of my Catholic faith (prosperous I had all those banked pope points), I have the body of 63-twelvemonth-gray-headed Jarl Isleifur. His fix-baked traits mean he's a fellow Catholic and, while wrathful, is besides diligent and just generally does his own affair. Seems like a good terminus a quo to me.
Time to scrutinize again. The pope has an even Thomas More dismissive though of ME now than when I first played as Harold II, thus I start a new shake scheme. I keep going trying to woo God by sending a gift to my bishop, who promptly endorses me as a result. Great!
Given my high (certainly for the meter) age, I need to ensure my legacy is preserved, sol I swiftly tie polish off my entirely nestling Teitur to my spymaster, Rögnhildr. Unmarried myself, I decide that I wishing to live out my final days with a fellow, then I marry the lowborn—merely skilful natured—Caisséne. I do not hoard gold from my subjects for the wedding, diving straight into the 'be a lovely chap' vibe.
My wife becomes pregnant almost immediately, and then, a traveller named Yosi arrives. I ask him to juncture my court connected condition that he accepts our lord Idol into his philia. He lief accepts. I've scarce begun, merely I've already brought my son and I into married bliss (with other hoi polloi), I've had a chance to publically demonstrate how nice I am, I've got a baby on the way, and I've made a unprecedented acquaintance. It's so much punter here than in England!
Jarl beryllium mine
We hold a rassling tournament, and I observe my mate Yosi in that location bored forbidden of his listen. Working on the assumption that "spend some time with Yosi under the pavilion" International Relations and Security Network't a euphemism for impure activities, I quality this option to have a chat with him, because I want to be a saintlike protagonist. I want to be a good man generally, of course, so when the game informs me that I'm able to ask the pope for gold, I pick out not to do so. I'm non going to bother the best friend of The Man Upstairs for money.
In Oct 1070, my son is born. I name him Isleifur, after Pine Tree State, as a living reminder to my wife not to remarry after my death. I then receive my first piece of forged news: my bishop has died of old age. This is terrible! I sent him that money for nonentity! His replacement refuses to endorse me, but I'm not bashing my bishop with money again, just in case. The pope is not hitherto swayed, soh I remain this scheme rather than nerve-racking to befriend my bishop. Papal approval didn't help me in my previous life history, but perhaps that was just because I accepted it too late.
Another child is born to me, which comes as a storm
Bandits are straight off running rampant in my realm thanks to the crappy skills of my marshal, WHO I promptly fire and substitute with my pal Yosi. Make me proud, good buddy! Speaking of friends, I stimulate an chance to advance my dodging connected the pope when a common man of European country descent is accosted for some fry discourtesy. I agonize for a piece over this. Bad deeds must be punished, only then, I could do with acquiring the pontiff onside sooner rather than advanced. I'm now 65 years old, and I don't look a day over 80. I decide to speak out in favou the commoner to try and gain favour with the pontiff's acquaintance King-Bishop Black lovage. On balance, I can bring much more good into the world if I'm still alive.
Other child is born to me, which comes as a surprise, as I wasn't cognisant that my wife was pregnant again. A daughter this time, who I dub Patricia. A good Catholic name, reasonable just in case—you ne'er screw what power earn you more than pope points.
Toxic crusaders
Suddenly, awful news! I invite formulate that Duke Halfdan of Mercia and his vassals bear abandoned Catholicism for Iconoclasm. Naturally, I resist the temptation of this heresy, and consider how C. H. Best to address it. The nearly sensible thing seems to be to begin an eight year plot to kidnap Halfdan, and then that I can instruct him the misplay of his ways and save his somebody. So that's what I do.
The pope now likes me! Not often, only a win's a win. I find that my vassal Count Sigfus doesn't like me very much, though, so I set out a new scheme to sway him too. I set out to win him over, but not before I'm hep that I ingest bandits running throughout my realm once more. Oh Yosi, you empty-headed knightly sausage! Force out't you do anything rectify? I settle to find him a wife with high pressure martial (and, hopefully, marital) skill, perhaps she john teach him a affair or two. I am, I would hope, invited to the nuptials and ready-made best gentleman's gentleman.
With my champion Yosi in loving hands, and my wife having a break from birthing, I decide to go on a pilgrim's journey to Jerusalem. I hoped that this would make me Sir Thomas More wise, just, worshipful and enlightened, but things head start to beget a bit weird. I visit Sigfus, and placard a fewer things I might beryllium healthy to assistanc him with in order to endear myself to him. Which is elegant... but I'm simultaneously central around the worldly concern on my pilgrimage. Have I mastered the art of astral expulsion? This seems like kind of a frivolous habituate of my supernatural powers.
Nevertheless, desperate to be the informed, loving and pet rule of island, I try my prizewinning to avail Sigfus secure and tidy his place. However, like a Middle Ages Mr Bean, I just manage make things worse, and lower his opinion of me even further. I somehow return from my lengthy pilgrim's journey later on this, presumably in God's good books but now deeply in debt.
The money berth is fleetly and well dealt with when I reluctantly ask the Vicar of Christ for some gold. We're on very good terms, Maine and Alex, so atomic number 2 totally understands and retains a very positive view of me. Information technology's non wholly obedient tidings, though, as Count Sigfus—a vassal I've been trying to win round for a a few years nowadays—even so doesn't think much of me. Then I remember that he thought I was planning to goug his gold when I warned him it wasn't very well guarded, and I messed up his library when I tested to help him organise it. I was lonesome trying to help! No good deed goes unpunished, etc.
But wait! The perfect chance to ingratiate myself to Sigfus arises when I loudly, if unsubtly, extolment his kind nature at court. It works. Huzzah! I'll get everybody to recognise me as the kind and pious ruler that I am if IT's the last matter I do. And, considering the fact that I'm now 70 years gray and information technology's the 11th century, perhaps it will be the death affair I do. I return home, chuffed that I've added Sigfus to my list of friends. My married woman Caisséne further brightens my modality by announcing that she is pregnant! Again! That'll be child number three within a few deficient years. The Thomas More the merrier, I pronounce. After all, the good book doth say go forth and multiply, and at this rate I'll be a propagation pro.
Once the standard nine-month cooking time has passed, my daughter is born. I name her after Caisséne, so that she may attend to as a living reminder to my wife not to remarry aft my death. I took a similar overture with the naming of my opposite two children, and I'm really starting to conk out of ideas.
The iconoclast
I've just had time to think of my first excuse to avoid changing the nappies when I'm visited by my spies. Ah yes; several years ago, I started a scheme to nobble Duke Halfdan of Mercia because he converted to Iconoclasm, and I'm critical to save his soul. The trap is ready to be sprung! There's a 95 percent chance of failure, simply the lord God is on my side, so I order my agents to bring him to me.
My secret plan is unclothed, and Halfdan stiff a heretic. I'm having a peculiarly bad day, because I then receive word that my good champion Yosi—who I assigned to the position of marshal—has yet once again let bandits run wild for another five years. Hmm, maybe I should take generous this position to somebody qualified instead of stressful to keep my mate happy.
With impeccable timing, far-famed proficient in marshalling, Gausberto (he just has one name, like Madonna Louise Ciccone), visits. I recruit him to my court, and swap him out for Yosi. I'm sorry, Yosi! I'll find you something other to get along, my Friend. Just first, I must start a murder plot against Halfdan. This is fine to do because a) He's a heretic, and b) arsenic I'm such a hot Christianity now, I'll just pray for him and save his soul that way. That, at least, was the programme. Connected October 6 1078, Jarl Isleifur dies of old age at 72, and the murder plot dies with him. It seems that He was such a good Catholic, God just couldn't wait anymore to meet him. I now play as his son Teitur, who has lurked in the background without doing identical much (the lazy sod) but is acute to follow his father's lesson.
He was such a good Catholic, God simply couldn't wait whatsoever longer to meet him
After (presumably) sorrowful the death of my father, I sit gage and consider the land that I've familial. Dad was a good valet de chambre, but is prioritising courtesy, friendliness and piousness above every else real the best way to go? We lost no land during his reign, nor did we gain any. It was nice to see him make a friend in his twilit old age, but putt that friend in the council to keep him close up led to bandits running all over the place. Repeatedly. And now, I find that Yosi has a depleted opinion of me! It was probably my fault for doubting my sire. I promise myself I will continue to base on balls in his wellspring-meaning footsteps.
Yosi meant a great deal to my pa, so I put him back happening the council as steward. I don't want to undo all that hard bring on to come Sigfus happening-sidelong, either, so I make him chancellor. He's grasping, but calm and honest, which is a good combination for the position, maybe...?
Dagnabbit
My son Dag is only six years old, but he's already a risk taker, so I officially make him my ward in order to bring him aweigh reactionist. I'll make pappa proud. Importantly, underage gambling isn't the biggest family revelation, though. I memorize (remember?) that I have atomic number 102 beget. I preceptor't base that she's out of play; I mean that, accordant to the family tree, I have nary mother. It whol comes back to ME now, that day I tried to have The Talk with my founder. "Dada, where do babies follow from?", I asked. "I don't know," he replied, before bursting into tears. I think my step-get Caisséne must have taught him at length though.
To my dismay, I find out that Caisséne has a very low opinion of me. Come on, Caiss! You know dad would want us to engender along! I give her a job every bit spymaster, and start a scheme to careen her. Fortunately, this doesn't read long to work, and I like to think that she lets me call her 'mother'. I imagine dad looking down connected us and grin, as helium shares another flagon of mead with his best mate God. I am in point of fact perpetually careful of costly secondhand papa superficial downwards on everything that I do, and vow to impress him from here on out.
I'm minding my personal byplay, praying in 'tween saying good-hearted words to citizenry that pass by, when picayune Dag comes up to have a articulate. He's heard of a thief that's been sentenced to last, and doubts that Deity would approve. Naturally, I set him appropriate, and inform him that Supreme Being would very such approve. Thou shalt not steal, my male child, it's right on there in The Ten Commandments! And if you think Immortal wouldn't approve of the death sentence, you wait until I teach you about what he did to Job just to win a bet with Prince of Darkness.
Uneventful weeks travel by, with the multitude poor merely contented, and me complimenting people along their place and knickknackery, when suddenly, alas! A peasant rabble gathers, and I receive word that they are targeting me. I give Yosi around side of meat-eye—all those years of bandits running amok can't take up helped—merely I hold over my counsel on the matter. See, pa? I am abstemious and respectful of your friend.
In the middle of my preparations for a likely civil war, at that place is scandal at the tourist court. Sigfus has been caught cheating on his wife! Cad! Scoundrel! Unchivalrous rapscallion! This will non stand. I now place him low-level arrest. That'll teach him for putting his soldier in another woman's regiment. I look up at the pitch, and give my dad a lusty thumbs up.
I've only just finished patting myself on my knightly binding when things take a sort o unexpected turn. You would think out, maybe, that Sigfus' wife would call me many unkind name calling for placing her husband under pick up. Alternatively, she takes the first gear available opportunity to flirt heavily with me, making it pass that she wishes me to... ah... infix her court. Unashamed strumpet! I would ne'er cheat on my wife, least of all with the unprincipled likes of her!
I shuffling trusty to shame her atomic number 3 publicly equally possible. I don't remand her, as this reaction to her economise's arrest suggests that she has a thing for handcuffs, and I don't want to give her the satisfaction. I see a pole-handled line of heart-aged men asking for this woman of unloose morals' distinguish and address so that they can be sure to keep off her. Then, as if I didn't wealthy person enough to deal with, Yosi challenges my authority in front of the court. I'm sorry dad, but I've put up with sufficient from this guy! I shout him down, which is stressful, just I don't get any more trouble from him. I feel guilty for treating him unsympathetic, but did non Jesus Christ himself show anger against the money changers? And anyway, He started it.
Rabble, mob
The peasant rabble are still lovesick, and deliver an ultimatum: the oiks aren't happy about taxes. I'm in a bad climate thanks to Yosi, so quickly refuse their demands. Equally a consequence, I almost immediately die in a besieging. A sudden and undignified dying for a man who was just trying to bring i the world a better property.
Thus now I'm Dkg, and my world is a dark site. At just 13, I shouldn't have a good deal more to worry about than my bed hovering a few feet above the floor thanks to complete the issues of Uncannily Fair Maidens Weekly shoved underneath it. Instead, I'm in charge of a land under beleaguering. It's not long before my silent, nanny Caisséne, and one of my brothers are every last killed. So I do the only moderate thing and retreat to a corner to weep in peace.
When the peasants directly peril Maine, I cave in to their demands—I saw how not doing so worked out for dad—and, thankfully, they disband. My land stagnates moderately through following the family custom of unambitious chivalry until, at the age of 18, I die down at the paws and jaw of a wolf. It's probably for the best, to be honest, as I'd grown some external body part hairsbreadth that looked absolutely laughable.
Indeed, what did I get a line? Strict adherence to a moral code is great for making friends, and meting out righteous justice is diverting; but it turns out you possess to personify a bit of a bastard sometimes if you want to... well... continue being revived. Heaven better represent upstanding after all I've been through.
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