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What are the Melitele court chaplain requirements ?

I've even a landed Melitele bishop, but for some reason I can't change him to court chaplain.
 
What's up with Skellige? Crach owns it, but I thought it was ruled by King Bran before he died.
Skellige as a whole seems rather unfinished, most canon characters especially the rulers are missing even though the clans except Tordarroch are there, with those presumably randomly generated rulers everwhere, whilst characters like Lugos, Svanrige, Bran, Donar, Udalryk, and Holger are nowhere to be found.
 
Considering I created the mod (and this region) before Witcher 3 came out, obviously no content created for that game is present. The clan names are there since there was a design document floating around that mentioned them.
 
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I would like to present the following ideas before going through the work to code the events to power all of it. First, some minor changes to better represent the situation as described on the wiki and in game;
Character Changes -
*) Give Foltest an "Unmarriable" trait. - Foltest is described as an unsuitable bachelor after his engagement to his sister, souring any potential political union. No one else wants to share his stain. However, it's very easy in game to get even Saskia, the Virgin of Vergen, to marry him. The best way to keep it accurate is to give him a trait that prevents him from marrying, like the Witcher trait does. For a fix that doesn't require the implementation of a whole new trait, you could also have a maintenance event that marries him to Meve of Lyria-Rivia. In the books, they have a respect for each other and it wouldn't be the first time that the two lines have intermarried. Her age would prevent children.

Title/Law Changes -
*) Northern Kingdoms changed to Agnatic-Cognatic Succession - Multiple of the northern realms have had Queens. Foltest's grandmother, for example. I see no reason to have the Agnatic law. Heck, even Adda and Anais are treated as possibilities, indicating that it's not impossible for females to inherit. If it's something from the books, I'd love to know, but it seems out of place currently.
*) Event to change tolerance law to Tolerant if Saskia becomes queen of either Pontar or Aedirn.

Start State -
*) Count Daniel Etcheverry involved in La Valette War - His dynasty member is involved and potentially gets shot by a ballistae by Geralt and Foltest in the siege. It'd help give the Valettes some ability to actually fight and win if they have some help.
*) Count Nymand II of Dorndal involved in La Valette - They're the only other Kreve ruler in Temeria. I know it's not much, but pretty much the same reasoning as above.

Vassal Relationships -
*) Brugge and Mahakam changed to Tributary instead of Vassal to Temeria - Brugge is described as a king vassal to Foltest. The best way to represent that is as a tributary. Mahakam kingdom title should stay with foltest, but the duchy be a tributary to better represent the inability of Foltest to control Mahakam beyond the Elder's cooperation.
*) Dol Blathanna changed to Tributary instead of Vassal to Aedirn - It's the closest we can get to the "autonomous duchy" that Dol Blathanna is.

I personally always found it weird that Dol Blathanna (who refuses to send monetary tribute and has around 2000 elves, according to Iorveth), would still send ~1000 troops to die for Stennis against Kaedwen. Similarly for the Mahakam Dwarves who aren't allowed in the Temerian Army. The above tributary relationships make it so that their soldiers can't be called as levies anymore. This leads into the idea of maybe having a provincial modifier that reduces levy recharge time in Dwarven and Elven provinces, but that's outside the scope of my current idea.

*) Ebbing, Geso, Mag Turga, Metinna, Nazair, and Toussaint changed to Tributary instead of Vassal to Nilfgaard - It's described that direct governors were only placed when the monarch wouldn't bend the knee and pay tribute. Only one kingdom (at least in the mod) doesn't have a dynasty going back centuries in the history. That would indicate that the monarchs bent the knee to the Nilfgaard empire rather than lose their crowns. It also lowers the risk of a faction destroying Nilfgaard in the first few years.

Cintra should debatably be a tributary and ally, but the relationship seems to be that Cirrila is totally a puppet to Nilfgaard. That's why I've left them out in this list.

A revised series of events for the La Valette War:
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In conjunction, a series of events for what happens if Foltest is assassinated in the AoK events.
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That kind of event chain would be fantastic, honestly. The mod is great, but I definitely feel like it lacks depth and stuff like this would be a fantastic start.
Thank you! I’d love to do it, but I didn’t want to go through the work of coding it without some amount of approval from the team. I just don’t want to infringe if they already have plans for this stuff.

EDIT: According to the wikia, the realms Nilfgaard conquered would roughly breakdown like this:
Tributaries -
  • Ebbing (Which is surprising since it's the first conquest.)
  • Metinna
    • Maecht (It's an elective monarchy that is made subject to Metinna, who is then subject to Nilfgaard.)
  • Toussaint
The others are listed as "Provinces". This is a confusing distinction, though, since ALL of them are referred to as "the provinces" in other passages. However, Nazair and Mag Turga being integrated makes some sense. They are both described as being incredibly rebellious.
 
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At least back when I set up the provinces the (two) wikis were confusing and contradictory. I ended up using the primary sources, the books, to find the scarce information that exists.
At some point in time a glossary was put online by Sapkowski. One guy, Miki, has been editing this information, that is only available via Wayback Machine, into the wiki over the last few years. I had a hard time, though to access the section about geography: http://web.archive.org/web/20000618033502/http://sapkowski.fantasy.art.pl:80/wc/index.html.po

Long text, point being: Don't fully frust the wikis.


To further illustrate my point all the information from the books about Mag Turga (only mentioned in the Tower of the Swallow). Not all too specific, actually:

'I think Your Majesty should marry the girl that we keep in Darn Rowan. We need this marriage, the legality of the sovereign lordship of Cintra, the calming of the Skellig Islands and the insurgents in Attre, Strept, and Northern Mag Turga. We need a general amnesty, peace in the hinterlands for the supply lines... We need the neutrality of Kovir's king, Esterad Thyssen.'

This was because Riedbrune lay at the mouth of the Dol Newi Valley, along the Theodula Pass that cut through the North Case of the Amell Mountains, and next to Riverdell, which associated with countries that had long been Nilfgaardian subjects – Mag Turga, Geso, Metinna, and Maecht. The town of Riedbrune, he explained, was the last city in which the settlers could still rely on something more than themselves, their wives and whatever they had in their wagons.

'The iron ore is washed here,' said Angouleme while pointing. 'Over there it is brought out in the tunnels of the mine. They feed material there, pouring it into the troughs where it is washed with water from the stream. The ore is deposited in sieves, where it is separated out. There are many such mines and filtration camps around Belhaven. But the ore is then moved into the forested valleys, like the Mag Turga, because wood is needed for the furnaces and smelters...'

'The landscape of Hundredlakes', Vysogota said, 'is now Mil Trachta. It is very broad, sliced through by the Yelena River, which cuts through lakes in the northern part of Metinna, near the border of Nazair and Mag Turga. Buyvid Backhuysen writes that they travelled south to the lake from Assengard... Today Assengard is no more, only its ruins remain and the closest town is Neunreuth.
 
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[QUOTE="JonStryker, post: 24540017, member: 466996”] snipped for conciseness .[/QUOTE]
I’m glad to get a response, but am I stepping on any team members efforts by working on the suggested AoK content? I wouldn’t want to infringe.

And, yeah, I definitely get what you mean with the weird information. Maecht is supposed to border Metinna, but doesn’t on the map CDPR uses.
 
Well, I've been working on things, and I'll give my rough changelog of what I've made. Though, I want to preface that none of this has been approved by JonStryker, so it could never see the light of day.

Changelog:
Bugfixes:
The "Create the North" decision now has a custom tooltip instead of being explained in the description.

Tributaries:
  • 5 new Tributary types to represent different situations (Tax%/Levy%).
    • Nilfgaard Province (10/10) - Represents kingdoms that were 'peacefully' subjugated and allowed to keep their monarchs.
    • Puppet (50/50) - Currently only used for Cintra. Planning to expand the functionality to all realms where a child monarch is betrothed to an adult ruler of greater power.
    • Protectorate (15/25) - More akin to vanilla tributaries. A northern exclusive option of a strong ruler protecting a smaller one.
    • Autonomous (0/0) - A sub-realm that provides no tax or soldiers, but maintains nominal lip service to a liege. This is used for Dol Blathanna and Mahakam.
    • March (0/30) - A tributary state exploited for soldiers rather than tax.
  • [WiP] CB's for All of them (Fine tuning the requirements and conditions to make each feel a bit different than just different tax and manpower rates.)
  • Behind the Scenes maintenance event chain to allow usurpers to attempt to maintain the tributaries of their predecessors. (Short of overwhelming odds, non-humans will attempt to break away from racists.)
  • Incremental control system via decisions (Currently only worked out for Nilfgaard Provinces)
Suzerain
  • Tighten the Reins - Transforms a tributary province into a direct vassal. Requires Strong or Absolute Authority and 15+ in at least 2 stats (excluding learning)*
Tributary
  • Increased Autonomy - Transforms a direct vassal into a tributary province. Requires Weak or Medium Authority and stats as above.*
  • Break Free - Makes a tributary province independent. Requires Weak or Medium Authority, stats as above, and relative strength.*
  • Nilfgaard Provinces -
    • Ebbing
    • Metinna
    • Maecht
    • Toussaint
  • Protectorates -
    • Brugge (Kingdom level title given to the prince)
  • Puppets -
    • Cintra
  • Autonomous Vassals -
    • Dol Blathanna
    • Mahakam
  • Marches -
  • 2 duchies in Angren controlled by Nilfgaard
Flavor Items:
  • Unsuitable Trait - Makes a character unable to marry and gives them +1 to all attributes (spending free time not doing things with spouse). Applied to Foltest to represent the stain of his incest with Adda (his sister, not his daughter).
Assassin of Kings Bookmark Stuff:
  • Revamped the War of La Valette Defiance chain. (All under the hood, I'm afraid. Planning to adjust some of the details, but no plans for major changes ATM.)
  • War End for Foltest reults in decision to legitimize just Bussy or both children (at reduced prestige cost)
    • Third Choice to marry Maria Louisa la Valette (further reduced prestige cost and removes the Unsuitable trait from Foltest).
  • War Victory for Arjan results in decision to give the throne to Bussy (if alive), Anais (if he isn't), Foltest's original heir (if neither is), or seize it for himself.
  • [WiP] White Peace resulting in the choices from the flowchart two posts up. Still working on the best mechanical method of having the non-dynastic heir choices work.
 
Why am I not able to fabricate claim on the Dryads, lore I guess? Is there a way to conquer their lands or I am stuck forever with them on my eastern border?
Answer from page 45:
"Brokilon should not be conquered, no. No point in holding some super-dense jungle land full of deadly green women."

It similar to real-world Amazonia.
 
@mrguymiah wow cool i didnt even know you could mod to add such specific cbs and tribute statuses. will refer to this post if you finish it for other modders. Is it possible for the ai to start factions to become autonomous from their status as direct vassals? Seems like thatd be game changing
 
Since its been bugging me for years, I've decided to go about and change the holding names in Novigrad to equivalents found in the Witcher 3. I've kept the tags but have only altered the names in English, French, German & Italian. Since the holding tags are as they were originally, this shouldn't potentially interfere with character titles.

Altered the following holding names:

Gielda is now Gildorf (EN/DE), Dornal (FR) & Borgodoro (ITA)
Barwice is now Hierarch Square (EN), Place du Hiérarque (FR), Platz des Hierarchen (DE) & Piazza del Gerarca (ITA)
Bazar Zachodni is now Harborside (EN), Quais (FR), Hafenviertel (DE) & Zona del Porto (ITA)
Teatrum is now Silverton (EN), Argentin (FR), Silberstein (DE) & Via d'Argento (ITA)
Targ Rybny is now Putrid Grove (EN), Bosquet putride (FR), Stinkende Hecke (DE) & Bosco Putrido (ITA)
Targ Drzewny is now Lacehalls (EN), Quartier de la dentelle (FR), Spitzenhall (DE) & Sale Merlettate (ITA)​

For use, download & open the .zip file and extract the "localisations" folder to your "Witcher" mod directory - overriding the y_Barony_names file when prompted.

Enjoy :D
 

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When the Novigrad parts of the map were last edited (by me) the Witcher 2 was out, the Witcher 3 was not yet. I based the baronies there on the short story "Eternal Flame" from the short story collection book "Sword of Destiny" and to also on this (probably fan made) map:
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net...st/scale-to-width-down/1280?cb=20130210120939
Also I would usually prefer Polish over other languages for Novigrad and Redania, since those places are the most directly Polish in the whole Witcher universe.

I consider Novigrad baronies less random than many, many other places that I came up with.

I mean Lyria&Rivia? After Thronebreaker those are sooo lacking of (newly established) canon locations. Aedirn/Mahakam too, of course.
 
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I did make a change to the baronies of the whole Novigrad duchy but I can't remember if it ever made it into the mod or not. It's bugged me too, man, only because the Polish book names are less relatable and less memorable than the Witcher 3 names.