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CK2 Dev Diary #72 - Reflections of a Dynasty

Hello, everyone!

I'm IsakMiller and I'm a Content Designer on CK2. While I did a brief stint on EU4's Rights of Man, I've been working on CK2 for almost two years now. Also, long time reader, first time poster (after some encouragement from my lovely team) here. Without further ado, I am here to tell you about a feature I'm really excited for you all to get your hands on: the decision to Compose a Book.

Imagine your ruler growing up, educating themselves... Learning the ways of the world, finding their own place in it -- and never being able to tell future generations about it? No more will this plague you, my friend! While it requires something of a scholarly mind, and a character’s skills will affect the topics available, owners of Jade Dragon will soon be able to invest their resources (and time!) in the creation of a literary work.
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Along the path of this endeavor, you might also be faced with a choice, such as this one:
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If all goes well, your scribes will at the end of it all present you with the finished work, which goes straight to your Treasury for safe-keeping -- this way, your descendants might also be able to draw on your experiences. Lucky bastards (maybe literally)!
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I recommend choosing a subject worthy of your dedication, as there are different outcomes and works available, depending on where your skills and interests lie -- your scribes will of course strive to meet your vision, but also to emulate your wisdom (or lack thereof). Not to mention how draining it can be to actually compose something of magnitude, and your character is likely to feel "Uninspired" for some time afterwards...
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All in all, there are almost a hundred different books you can produce. The majority of them are intended to blend in with the theme of your character (such as Speculum Regale, or the Confessions of Saint Augustine), while others might make you wonder what goes on in your character's mind when you're not looking...

On a personal note, I always want to give the artifact system more love, so I'm happy I was able to work on this -- my hope is that each book will be something of a family heirloom, for any player, in any play-through. I imagine it should go nicely next to the skull of your rival, and the Magnum Opus on Astrology that your grandfather wrote.


Thank you for your time.

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Lovely. Are the titles culturally dependent? Wouldn't make much sense to compose a Speculum Regale as a Tamil ruler... For them, a Thirukkural should be created instead. Northern Indian cultures would produce an Arthashastra. And so forth. We wouldn't like to be too Eurocentric, would we?
 
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This is nice and all, but an entire DD just for book writing seems a little bit thin. Maybe you could share more of the current change log like you've done before? A portion of the change log we haven't seen yet etc. It keeps it interesting.
 
I don't seem to fully understand this.

Is this book a simple artifact that provides bonuses, with a flavour of having your character's name as the title?
Or is it something that contains the exploits of your character as description, written in Chronicle-style?

In other words, if I click on the artifact, will it display something like:
"Duke John the Merry had an affair with Glitherhoof."
"Duke John managed to defend his realm in a war against the Welsh menace."

'cause that'd be cool
 
At this point you should consider a separate tab for books held by your dynasty. In fact I have been mulling over an idea for a tech system based on the books in your royal library instead of a linear progression.

Sort of a card system like stellaris except the cards are books which can be lost and gained and retaken, copied and so on.

A system where instead of spying with your court scholar you send them to study somewhere and while they are there they have a chance to either get to make a copy of a book there or maybe they spawn a new book to be added to both the province owner and the person sending them, so you sort of get centres of learning paces where there are a lot of knowledge gathered where a lot of scholar go to study and thus add even more to that knowledge.

Of course you could send your spymaster to try and steal a book from such a location instead.

You could also have events for real life scholars appearing in an appropriate province and writing the work they are most famous for.
 
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Are we just not getting a release date at this point?
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2079, 2300 year anniversary of the founding of the Qin Dynasty.
I hope there are some pretty special books written by lustful characters
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50 Shades of Incest

Also: Glitterhoof, How A Horse Became The Emperor's Lover, Chancellor And Heir
 
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