(Old name: Claims on Defunct Titles)
What does this mod do?
On a regular basis, any claim held by a character is converted to a weak, inheritable claim (and therefore is inherited, even if the claim currently is weak and uninheritable), as long as:
- No liege of the character holds or claims the title
- At least one of the following must be true:
- - The title has no holder
- - The character's realm contains a "foothold" title in the claimed title's de jure territory
- - The title has republican government and the claimant has feudal, tribal, or nomadic government
- - The title has theocratic government and the claimant has feudal, tribal, or nomadic government
- - The title's holder is of a different religion
- - The title's holder is a vassal (direct or indirect) of the character
(Each of these bullet points can be enabled or disabled separately, with its own game rule.)
Why is this mod cool?
Without this mod, claims matching the conditions listed above would be lost forever after just a few generations. However, this flies in the face of the many claims to European thrones that have survived even into the present day--for example, the Legitimist, Orléanist, and Bonapartist claimants to the Kingdom of France, which currently has republican government. This mod allows such situations to occur. It also allows some interesting roleplaying: "My great-great-great-great-great-grandfather was the King of Italy, before those stinking Venetians made it a republic. I'll take back the land of the Lombards myself!"
Why is this mod NOT cool?
- As the game progresses, the accumulation of claims to (1) defunct tribal titles that can't be re-created and (2) titles that are controlled by powerful rulers of other religions tends to make characters' lists of claims cluttered to the point of uselessness.
- Claims are converted on_yearly_pulse and on_new_holde*, not on_death. This means that, if several unlanded characters die in quick succession, their claims may not be inherited properly.
With which version of vanilla is this mod compatible?
Game rules were introduced in version 2.6. If you remove those, any_de_jure_vassal_title (as a condition scope, not just a command scope) was introduced in version 2.5. If you remove that, add_weak_pressed_claim was introduced in version 1.06.
Is this mod compatible with other mods?
This mod is totally self-contained, with one events file (containing one event in its own toakraka2 namespace), one on_actions file, and one game_rules file. It should be compatible with any other mod.
Do I have permission to use parts of, or the entirety of, this mod in my own mod?
Of course! Who would be mean enough to prevent others from using his work? Just don't forget to include me in the credits.
A companion mod is Claimant Reconquest, which allows county/duchy de jure claim CBs to be used even if you only claim the target title's de jure liege duchy/kingdom/empire, rather than actually holding it. (The de jure barony claim CB, and the CB to press a vassal duke's de jure claim on a county, have not been edited.)
With both Claimant Reconquest and Expanded Claim Inheritance active, the following sequence of events is possible:
1. The King of England has a weak, non-pressed claim on the Kingdom of France. He does not have a foothold in de jure French territory, so his claim will not be inherited. The King of France is powerful, so the King of England cannot successfully press his claim on the kingdom.
2. However, the Kingdom of Navarra holds some de jure French territory and is quite weak. Claimant Reconquest allows the King of England to attack Navarra for a de facto Navarran, de jure French county.
3. When the King of England dies, Expanded Claim Inheritance allows his heir to inherit his claim on the Kingdom of France, because he owns a foothold in France's de jure territory.
Additionally, in the 769 campaign start, Charlemagne, Karloman, and their descendants can use their claims on the Empire of Francia to actually make progress toward restoring that title. (Compare the HRE-unification CBs that some other mods use for a similar purpose.)
Unlike Expanded Claim Inheritance, Claimant Reconquest is not likely to be compatible with other mods or with other versions of vanilla, as it edits the vanilla casus belli files.
On a regular basis, any claim held by a character is converted to a weak, inheritable claim (and therefore is inherited, even if the claim currently is weak and uninheritable), as long as:
- No liege of the character holds or claims the title
- At least one of the following must be true:
- - The title has no holder
- - The character's realm contains a "foothold" title in the claimed title's de jure territory
- - The title has republican government and the claimant has feudal, tribal, or nomadic government
- - The title has theocratic government and the claimant has feudal, tribal, or nomadic government
- - The title's holder is of a different religion
- - The title's holder is a vassal (direct or indirect) of the character
(Each of these bullet points can be enabled or disabled separately, with its own game rule.)
Why is this mod cool?
Without this mod, claims matching the conditions listed above would be lost forever after just a few generations. However, this flies in the face of the many claims to European thrones that have survived even into the present day--for example, the Legitimist, Orléanist, and Bonapartist claimants to the Kingdom of France, which currently has republican government. This mod allows such situations to occur. It also allows some interesting roleplaying: "My great-great-great-great-great-grandfather was the King of Italy, before those stinking Venetians made it a republic. I'll take back the land of the Lombards myself!"
Why is this mod NOT cool?
- As the game progresses, the accumulation of claims to (1) defunct tribal titles that can't be re-created and (2) titles that are controlled by powerful rulers of other religions tends to make characters' lists of claims cluttered to the point of uselessness.
- Claims are converted on_yearly_pulse and on_new_holde*, not on_death. This means that, if several unlanded characters die in quick succession, their claims may not be inherited properly.
With which version of vanilla is this mod compatible?
Game rules were introduced in version 2.6. If you remove those, any_de_jure_vassal_title (as a condition scope, not just a command scope) was introduced in version 2.5. If you remove that, add_weak_pressed_claim was introduced in version 1.06.
Is this mod compatible with other mods?
This mod is totally self-contained, with one events file (containing one event in its own toakraka2 namespace), one on_actions file, and one game_rules file. It should be compatible with any other mod.
Do I have permission to use parts of, or the entirety of, this mod in my own mod?
Of course! Who would be mean enough to prevent others from using his work? Just don't forget to include me in the credits.
This is a very simple mod with a very simple purpose: to prevent hereditary claims on defunct or non-hereditary titles from expiring, regardless of how many generations have passed. (Wikipedia has a long list of such claimants--for example, the Legitimist, Orléanist, and Bonapartist claims to the Kingdom of France, which currently is a republic.) This mod detects claims on defunct, republican, and theocratic titles, and ensures that such claims will be inherited (i.e., converts them to "weak and pressed" status) via a hidden event that fires immediately before any character dies.
This has two effects:
- If a title is destroyed, or is usurped by a ruler with a republican or theocratic form of government, and is restored to a non-republican/-theocratic form of government (e.g., Feudal or Iqta) after some generations (or centuries!), it will have dozens of claimants that may fight among themselves for the throne. For example, in the screenshot above, my character, the Emperor of Italy, is one of many claimants to several defunct kingdoms, including the ones that were destroyed after being assimilated de jure into the Italian Empire.
- If a title has been defunct for several generations (or centuries!), it can be interesting to see how its claimants bred. For example, in the test game pictured above, the claimants to the Kingdom of Italy (defunct for 250 years) were mostly split between Catholic and Orthodox (with a few pagans!), while every claimant to the Kingdom of Iceland (existed from 1022 to 1088) was Catholic, and the vast majority of claimants to the Kingdom of Egypt (defunct for 250 years) were Sunni.
This mod includes only a single event (in its own namespace), plus an associated on_actions file, so it should be compatible with literally any other mod. (I devised and tested it while using the Historical Immersion Project.)
This has two effects:
- If a title is destroyed, or is usurped by a ruler with a republican or theocratic form of government, and is restored to a non-republican/-theocratic form of government (e.g., Feudal or Iqta) after some generations (or centuries!), it will have dozens of claimants that may fight among themselves for the throne. For example, in the screenshot above, my character, the Emperor of Italy, is one of many claimants to several defunct kingdoms, including the ones that were destroyed after being assimilated de jure into the Italian Empire.
- If a title has been defunct for several generations (or centuries!), it can be interesting to see how its claimants bred. For example, in the test game pictured above, the claimants to the Kingdom of Italy (defunct for 250 years) were mostly split between Catholic and Orthodox (with a few pagans!), while every claimant to the Kingdom of Iceland (existed from 1022 to 1088) was Catholic, and the vast majority of claimants to the Kingdom of Egypt (defunct for 250 years) were Sunni.
This mod includes only a single event (in its own namespace), plus an associated on_actions file, so it should be compatible with literally any other mod. (I devised and tested it while using the Historical Immersion Project.)
2016-08-16: Initial upload
2016-09-11: Changed event from 1-year MTTH to on_yearly_pulse (should improve performance)
2016-12-15: Changed event from on_yearly_pulse to on_death (should improve performance and completeness)
2017-08-12: Changed theocratic-government option to different-religion option; added de-jure-foothold option; added no-liege-with-conflicting-claim requirement
2017-09-09: Added "you keep your claim if the title is held by your vassal" portion
2019-11-11: Changed name, added game rules
2019-11-12: Added tribal and nomadic governments alongside feudal governments in disputing the legitimacy of republican and theocratic ownership of titles
2020-09-20: Reversion from on_death (which presumably was broken by a patch, since I'm pretty sure it used to work before) to on_yearly_pulse and on_startup
2022-05-30: Fixed error in code for liege-claim override that stopped the mod from working in many cases
2022-05-31: Removed on_startup and added on_new_holde*
2016-09-11: Changed event from 1-year MTTH to on_yearly_pulse (should improve performance)
2016-12-15: Changed event from on_yearly_pulse to on_death (should improve performance and completeness)
2017-08-12: Changed theocratic-government option to different-religion option; added de-jure-foothold option; added no-liege-with-conflicting-claim requirement
2017-09-09: Added "you keep your claim if the title is held by your vassal" portion
2019-11-11: Changed name, added game rules
2019-11-12: Added tribal and nomadic governments alongside feudal governments in disputing the legitimacy of republican and theocratic ownership of titles
2020-09-20: Reversion from on_death (which presumably was broken by a patch, since I'm pretty sure it used to work before) to on_yearly_pulse and on_startup
2022-05-30: Fixed error in code for liege-claim override that stopped the mod from working in many cases
2022-05-31: Removed on_startup and added on_new_holde*
A companion mod is Claimant Reconquest, which allows county/duchy de jure claim CBs to be used even if you only claim the target title's de jure liege duchy/kingdom/empire, rather than actually holding it. (The de jure barony claim CB, and the CB to press a vassal duke's de jure claim on a county, have not been edited.)
With both Claimant Reconquest and Expanded Claim Inheritance active, the following sequence of events is possible:
1. The King of England has a weak, non-pressed claim on the Kingdom of France. He does not have a foothold in de jure French territory, so his claim will not be inherited. The King of France is powerful, so the King of England cannot successfully press his claim on the kingdom.
2. However, the Kingdom of Navarra holds some de jure French territory and is quite weak. Claimant Reconquest allows the King of England to attack Navarra for a de facto Navarran, de jure French county.
3. When the King of England dies, Expanded Claim Inheritance allows his heir to inherit his claim on the Kingdom of France, because he owns a foothold in France's de jure territory.
Additionally, in the 769 campaign start, Charlemagne, Karloman, and their descendants can use their claims on the Empire of Francia to actually make progress toward restoring that title. (Compare the HRE-unification CBs that some other mods use for a similar purpose.)
Unlike Expanded Claim Inheritance, Claimant Reconquest is not likely to be compatible with other mods or with other versions of vanilla, as it edits the vanilla casus belli files.
2020-01-19: Initial upload for 3.3.0
2020-05-24: Update for vanilla 3.3.3
2020-05-24: Update for vanilla 3.3.3
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