My ultimate goal would be to be able to randomly select _any_ dead character, dynastic or lowborn, but from what I understand of the current scopes that is not possible. I found a somewhat functional workaround, but as I stated
here, it only works for dynasties with at least one living member.
For a haunting event I am working on, I'd _really_ love to be able to dig into ghosts from before 400 CE, but only a few of those still have surviving dynasties, so I decided on any dead character from any time.
An even more kludey option (that might even crash the game if I had tried it) was to make a static list of the approximately 2,700 dead characters in a 769 CE start and turn those into a giant random_list, but then as the game progresses and dynasties die out they are lost to the process.
EDIT: for grins, I tried this and... it didn't blow up my game but oh what a CPU spike. Worse than scope any_character ever caused me (and I run a very high end system). /laughs