Year 1101
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Let's start (probably) our last fully tribal part of this AAR. Took us a long time but being Feudal is finally on the horizon. Just need to stay put and avoid any major mistakes. For now our main objective is to stockpile prestige ASAP. Given that current Business focus can present us with "Minting coin" event I might even remain on it longer. It is good prestige boost - worth even paying 100g for 100 prestige to avoid penalty. But we start with excommunicatng single scheming vassal (Chief Gazheg of Tabagatai next to Silkroad) and then start investing in characters again. Have one of most profitable batch of investors so far. Some are somewhat problematic and may need direct banishment but it will be worth the effort.
We invited sons where needed and we even got another source of Branicki saintly bloodline 
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Forced Polish courtier to convert into Orthodoxy to activate his saintly bloodline and then marry him off to one of daughters of our kin ruling Yugra high chiefdom across Ural mountains. This should help keep the steady source of those characters even if our main project with bethrothal between court children fails. Then I also convert one of those wealthy investors, whose son is a steward in distant realm (thus won't allow himself to be invited to us).
By March all of our prestige based retinues are fully replenished, thus I expect our income of that resource to increase soon. Then as I look through list of all plots inside Permo-Siberia I spot that our Uncle Kezhay III has an assasination against our current ruler going on. Well that's definetely not nice - we are planning to give him his own kingdoms to rule. Ungrateful and impatient creature. We let him know, that we know. He follows our directive and ceases his rogueish behaviour.
Once again with advent of May we start the dance of hosting every single Summer Fair and Feast we can. This time not for prosperity itself but that prestige. Our passive prestige income gives us little less than 300/year. With current 1.554 and needing 5.000 there is hope than in maybe less than 10 years time we will accumulate as much. Doesn't take long as week after we can pick first +5 prestige option. Then our spymaster steals some technology from Thrace. This time rng lands on military category (1511 points at the moment). Little shame it wasn't economy - we have 2.200 out of 2.700 needed to push towards final level of Constructon technology (dated fo game end).
Time passes without any summer fair's popups. Takes up to June for us to be able to excommunicate our Bedouin High Almoner (that we previously converted). Soon first summer fair situation occurs. Choice between Paranoid or +5 relation wish some courtier. Picked second due to being already at trait limit (6) but maybe I should consider improving my Intrigue for stealing artifact from monastic society? It's a gamble either way. We also get informed that our freshly wed (to Kazimierz Branicki) kinwoman from Yugra was caught cheating on her husband. Never easy ay?
Emperor Vokan get's issued penance from society. I'm torn. He has no other vices so he will probably lose Ambitious. We probably won't get diligent but can expect Erudite. I think we abort this mission to avoid problems with being over the demense limit. Hope it turns correct choice. Then some Jewish Chancellor candidate arrives with 22 Diplomacy. So it is an upgrade to current holder + he will generate cultural tech points. So Vokan's friend high Chief of Zyriane gets the boot. New chancellor Azariah of Ash Shir gets to work on generating claim on Kirs bishopric (in capital Kudymkar) at once, so we can finally arrange for desired administrative setup. He has maximum 16%+ chance per year. Then we finally get around extracting money from one of new investors. Turns out we have 100% arrest chance without even using our Marshal to help. Good as he is currently supressing rebelions of heretics nearby. Thus we imprison and then banish him for sweet reward.
Only problematic inheritance was solved. Won''t fill his spot and we will patiently wait for others. With that our fortune rises to 46.270 gold coins.
As time goes on and Autumn arrives we get informed that one of our domestically grown Muhallabid girls fliped back to Sunni again. Great that I managed to fix that. Her oldest sister is also marriagable, so we find the best and most corrupt individual we can find to breed even more decadent Muhallabids. There is one problem though - Islam doesn't allow Matrilinear marriages. So we need to turn her into Orthodox character to create more descendants of her dynasty that will be converted to Islam after.
One of our vassal Priest informs us that Western Sayan converted back to Orthodox. I even missed that it flipped to some heresy! Oh wait. It was Western Sayan - single county vassal in question snatched from Mongolia that I do not wish to hold longterm. That explains a lot. Our religion Moral Authority is healing and right now stands at healthy 80%. As August progresses we get that minting event. I give up on acquiring Greedy and Deceitful for now to just make sure we don't lose even more prestige later. Moment later we get notified about getting first modifier on way toward lifestyle trait. Also up to almost 1.750 prestige. Then before end of month our Permo-Siberian Patriarch decides to canonise late father of Emperor Vokan. Setyamka Permyakid will from now on be known as Saint Setyamka "The Understanding". Now that's something I can understand
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Two out of three Orthodox Saints are characters we played. This Bloodline would come in handy earlier but it still can help our family that will rule Nenetsia.
Will have to sire many children as Emperor Vokan is the only one capable of prolonging this bloodline atm. Before I can make arrangements we get stressed trait from Business and then something not seen in ages - Orthodox Stewardship icon for +1 base stat. So it evens itself out but becomes better over long haul. Found some good Genius/Quick female candidates with even widowed Han princess among them
. All that for small price of favour inviting.
Time to prolong the bloodline. Let's hope for another intelligent descedant to take over and rest of his brothers to become skilled Bishops.
Actions doesn't slow down as #TeamPope finally decides, who will be next victim of Catholic leading realms. Turns out he designated Waldensian Duke of France. He has 46 realm size and there is also 79 Waldensian King-Bishop Sergius II "The monk" of France to help him next door. Which took over Papal theocracy of France. I think HRE+Croatia with help of holy orders will deal with them swiftly. Turns out HRE is not taking part in this Crusade though... So it might have been prudent choice to weaken enemies first. On other hand it might limit HRE expansion towards west.
Catholics should win this. With that they might no longer need our assistance. In time we will fight for their warchest though.
By perfectly timing the game on 1st of November I get the ability to host 2 feast per season IRC. Or was it only Great Hunt related? Well we will test it anyway. Then I inherit some tribe at the south-western reaches of my empire so new administrator is generated and tribe is given away. After that we benefit from having many Cookbooks to get +20 prestige at the cost of 10g spend on preparing the food for feast.
As feast starts in December, turns out at least Conjurers we hired paid off with extra 10 prestige. Then as I slowly watch the timer tick, turns out my initial assumption was correct. Feast ends on December 31 and thanks to pausing we can prepare another one. Also I realise thanks to us snatching that Han Princess we now have decision to raise Chinese Honor Guard (available when in war :]). What a good haul this year Permo-Siberia had.
Year 1102
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We start the year with over 1.950 prestige. As previous year we didn't manage to have 2 feast,s we did not got to check how much prestige is there for us to accumulate each year on average. But now we will test it
. Upon some checking turns out game had to update itself as our uncle Kezhay III also is part of double saint bloodline (Varaka+Setyamka). He actually will make great use of it as his holdings in Vladimir high chiefdom are halfway Komi'nised. Important to mention - happy father to 4 boys and 4 girls each of which is holder of all our family bloodlines
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Feast lasts till end of March. No ability to held 3rd one I'm afraid. Still it put us at 2.040 prestige currently. We get informed our Muhallabid guest became father of his first son. Now we are talking. We assign him Pride and keep him under Sunni tutor. Our Afghan investor is Slothful, Cruel, Deceitful and Humble - perfect fit. Even if things turn out not decadent enough to my liking, he still can keep impregnating more courtiers we will deliver him in order to create decadence outside of Egypt Sultan reach.
On that topic next months are spend on questioning our Greek concubine Melissa, if Vokan is the father of recently sired children in her belly. Turns out he really is as she claims and we get 20% roll for Trusting trait but don't get it. Meanwhile some nomadic raiders appear out of silkroad (300 of them) so our border guards in Saur are put into use. We also remember about Summer Fair of 1102. Before end of May our High Almoner Afghan Sunni investors dies. So now we need a replacement for Muhallabid children at our court. But more importantly his over 2.600 ducats went to his 69 year old sister abroad (the last from siblings). We invite her asap. Did not expect it as she was 2 years older than him (69 y.o right now) and outlived his younger brother.
Getting rid of that small nomad host costed us around 13 prestige, because even with just 5 men lost we pay for whole month of reinforcement :/. Then as summer is in full swing news arrive about our kinwoman from Yugra dying under "suspicious circumstances". So her marriage with Kazimierz Branicki turns out to neither be long or happy. Well we wed him to another Permyakid daughter of our vassal-kin. Then after arrranging that (our Branicki widower went pack to his original court so I had to poach him again) and shuffling tutors for Sunni children we get this
Usual choice. Worth it? I doubt it. We are writing about Learning anyway so we don't care.
Imagine now risking it for something not needed. I opt for safe choice as this book doesn't matter (next one will) and I would hate to ruin my plans just out of greed. Time passes. Our Concubine gives birth in October and turns out she was liar. This child isn't our afterall. Luckily we don't get a hit to our prestige and it is a girl so we were safe anyway even if she didn't confess. I'll keep her for now. Just as I say this, Vokan other concubine becomes pregnant (Pecheneg one).
Sadly I miss the timing on November as I wanted to check factions. Still will give us an estimate for this year prestige gain, as second feast would end in march anyway. We also get event from Saint Varaka Permyakid "the Apostle" bloodline giving us nice trait for free
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With patient we are up to 21/16/25/9/24 statline. That a lot. Now we only lack Diligent to have all +all stats traits (Genius, Ambitious, Patient)
During feast we make a new friend - chieftess Megurka of Naberezhnye. Soon also one of our advisors dies and we replace him with member of Permyakid dynasty from Ural. Nepotism at it's finest. But thanks to it we have 6 Loyalist members of council and 1 Pragmatist.
Year 1103
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One thing I spotted last year but didn't have a moment to bring up - our Polish Saint bloodline's holder somehow inherited Saint Setyamka bloodline. Some kind of bug I think? But he lacks Saint Varaka bloodline, so it still is 2 out of 3. He already impregnated Nezayka Permyakid and as they are in matrilinear marriage I should soon see, if my way of handling bloodline inheritance was correct.
In March Emperor newest friend dies due to cancer. That developed and claimed that 32 years old chieftess quickly. Did not expect that. Even worse she was pregnant :/. Some news from far West arrive - Catholic brethren have prevailed in their Crusade over heretics and now there are 2 kingdoms of France. One de jure and one Titular. One held by Basque Catholic Crusader Queen and other held by Waldensian French King-Bishop. Reminded myself that we can make non-aggresion pact with HRE and even alliance. The second option will have to wait as I don't want to ruin my current "peace" ambition.
Even more mish-mash. As Germans went into both Croatia and now Iberia, so Iberians went into France. Seems fair xD
I remember to held another Summer Fair on 1st of May =]. Two weeks later first daughter to emperor is born. Young Seyamka Permyakid reveals hints of Genius so we are up to good start
. Maybe she will be used for joining all orthodox bloodlines into single genius character? Who knows. Also as I was investigating turns out most if not all of Branicki bloodline got Setyamka's bloodline as well... Something definetely bugged out. Not that it matters a lot as we still have to connect their bloodline with our older bloodline.
In June our Greek concubine once again is pregnant... Oh boy here we go again @.@. Situation repeats itself. Then we react to some blasphemer as truly virtuous and zealous ruler, which grants us our Patriarch approval. Sadly not enough to force through with excommunications of our bishops. Then young emperor visits one of mmonastiers within his monastic society activities.
Some virtuous Deus vult'ing is always apprecieated!
After checking turns out I was right in how to transfer bloodlines - Kazimierz Branicki's daughter has both of his bloodlines yet is of our dynasty. One step closer to bloodline transfer to playable character
. We get issued another mission from society and this time it is more digestable charity to perform. It still can mess something up but hey - we have to try at some point. With that it is enough to reach 2nd rank within Community of Saint Basil.
Uff! Wasn't sure if I got it right. But the result proves the concept. So we are looking into joining all Orthodox saintly bloodlines into one family.
During Autumn as Vokan visited monks, he made another friend with whom after spending some time he lost his stressed trait (probably this won't remain true for long but hey). Once again I'm 2 days late to squeeze extra feast this season. Will have to create a habit for myself. At least our religion is doing fine - 89% MA and rising. On topic which soonish, Vokan misses company of his male monk friend. He decides to endure it and get's positivee trait instead of stressed. So a positive overall. Soon he makes another friend on feast so it is a-ok. That should relieve his boredom. Turns out feast have irregular durations. So somehow I can still click 2nd feast on 31 of december even after starting the first on 3rd of November. Don't mind if I do :3.
Year 1104
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Last year we took our "See the realm prosper" ambition. For now we are looking at 2.688 prestige associated with Vokan's name. Soon another infidelity is resolved and our Greek Concubine once again proves herself guilty without any repercussion for us. At this point I don't care - I'll keep her for prestige and in few year time will replace her with younger Permian girl that just comes out of age
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As another feast winds down by late February I think it is safe to assume to gain around 40 prestige from single one. Summer Fair's seem to bring more alonglines of 20 prestige. So all 3 decision give us extra 100 prestige a year. That's might be just enough to allow reaching 5.000 prestige within 6-7 years. Then I have an epiphany!
When starting each play session I always start with turning the notifications off. One of them is "Create the title". Why does it matter? Because creating title gives prestige. Whole +200 for single duchy. We have around 20 duchies that we held and can create titles for. That's 20x200=4.000 prestige. Which puts us at over 5.000. So we could Feudalise already! So now it is a time to start those Hillforts construction ASAP!
Burtasy already have maxed Hillfort so those 11 are upgrading. Won't probably max all of them as there are still quite a lot buildings we can buy with prestige.
Many of my vassals are more than ready to Feudalise (more than me xD) so we will probably do this during this part. There will be some administrative cleanups but hey - that's something to do after feudalising as well
. So as our building crews have something to do for once, our Patriarch informs us that our relatively brief friend Chieftess Megurka was proclaimed to be blessed. So there is chance one of our vassals becomes another Saint (I doubt it looking at her resume but hey...). Maybe that's another bloodline to include in our "MOST HOLY SIBERIAN EMPIRE".
Oh what a coincidence. Our friend might be saint too? That would be nice of our vassals to provide us with extra bloodlines
By my estimation it will or wont happen in year 1108 (4 years from now on). For now we finally finish "See the Realm Prosper" objectives on August 7th. So now I can look through vassal list once again and deal with any traitors to the interests of realm. Turns out vassals for once are behaving and instead of cloak and dagger prefer to read bible as there are quite a few that seem like promising Saint candidates
. They finally took example from our Permyakid dynasty. So there is only one schemer. So my excommunication is instead thrown at single multi-count.
In September as our level 3 hillforts are finishing we get unexpected call to arms from our mother - Queen Potyava of Nenetsia (50 y.o.). She wants to wrestle control of Novosil from Chernigov Khaganate to the south of Perm and wants our help in this task. Well I'm happy it didn't explode in my face earlier during prosperity ambition cause I completely forgot that we had military alliance xD. Good on her part to wait for her son to finish his current objectives. I will help but the fighting will done with levies to avoid prestige loss.
Once month changes to October we can order another set of hillfort upgrades in Perm itself. Calculated that with just feudalising Perm + Burtasy we can achieve what I need right now, leaving some more time to spend prestige in remaining 5 tribes (which saves us some gold in the long run and doesn't immedietely skyrockets our income meaning less gold to buy new holding slots from prosperity in near future). Then I realise nothing is preventing me from extracting Tarbagatai tribe at the same time. What's more it even allows me (being primar attacker) to raise Chinese Honor Guard that I will send against Nomads instead. Well played emperor Vokan :].
Was expecting chinese looking models but instead we got native models. It is cool anyway - some sort "But we got Chinese honor guard at home" moments.
Before end of year we get another minting event. Once again I refrain from debasing curerncy to maximize our prestige safely. At least it still counts as success and now we have Trader modifier (+2 stewardship). Meaning soon we might get to lifestyle events. It works out even better than I expected because, if we feudalise soon we can go towards Architect event chain and try to get Quarry for even more discounts on massive buildup that will follow =D. We also reach 3.000 prestige as somehow our Tarbagatai extraction crew didn't lose single man. Not complaining about that. Of course due to wars we are not throwing any feast this year. Also I realise I was mislead. We are not fighting against Chernigov Khaganate but just 2 county High Chief of Chernigov... Well that's definetely much less difficult to overcome.
Year 1105
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Seems Chiernigov Khaganate joined after all. And our Mother decided to not summon her 22.000 vassal troops so she wages this war with just 1.500 personal levies. Well seems we will have to carry the day, but we still await arrival of Permo-Siberian Levies into Burtasy tribe. We at least finish Tarbagatai extraction before end of January. We take it briefly as our demense limit allows it.
Luckily targeted Chernigov has only 2 counties thus we will make them surrender before their friends manage to do the same to our Mother. As winter is (I swear this always happens) severe we have some problems with attrition. Luckily one of my Anatolian allies got succedded by quite remarkable fellow - Suomenusko Norse that was previously Varangian and now reached the Hero status within Suomenusko Warrior Lodge. Just look at this monster:
I would hate to have to fight against him. He might know a thing or two about fighting in winter xD.
They start marching in March and arrive to greet the nomads in June. Did little tinkering around flanks - our Norse will lead Chinese Honor Guard on it's own cause with high % of Pikes and many bonuses to Defence he will shred them in melee. Our main center flank is commanded by Aggresive leader and other flank by some Cruel Commander. Overall our commanding assets are not great beside that Norse Varangian.
Fight doesn't take long enough. Even though troops entered Melee they rolled Advance thus got countered by enemy Charge. Luckily center helped them so we ended with great results nonetheless.
After winning that battle we are looking at 57% of warscore in our favour. Mother's troops are taking over Novosil tribe (ast Chernigov holding) so we will decap those tribes nomads took over in Vladimir. Meanwhile on other side of Permo-Siberia in Zaysan some nomadic raiders arrived. During all that all Stonewall Hillforts IV finished in each of High Chiefdom of Perm counties. After that grueling work, our young ruler sets aside matters of state to spend some time with his daughter. He misses on getting Kind trait but Setyamka gets +1 martial at least. Perhaps he told her about bravery of Permo-Siberian warriors defending their realm?
Meanwhile our borderguard deals with intruders in Zaysan, losing 28 men but claiming 506 riders. Then our Patriarch finally finishes converting heretics in Votyaki. Removing revolt risk and freeing Marshal to oversee our troops (-25% prestige upkeep will give us over +1 extra prestige/month)
This is important as there is requirement for having converted county to organised religion and IRC it must be your current religion to feudalise.
Our Permo-Siberian Patriarch is then sent to Slavic Ryazan to do the same with monthly 22.85% chance of success. Then on 7th of September the war is concluded. Uff - that should give me a brief period of peace. Decided to spend 300 prestige on Warrior Gathering III in recently acquired Tarbagatai so we are back to 3.113 prestige. Why? Cause it was already max upgraded when it comes to Stonewall Hillforts so it will convert upon feudalising. Unique culture exclusive buildings are the best way to spend prestige as they convert their levels in 1:1 ratio unlike others that convert every 2 levels of tribal building into 1 level of feudal building. Well it also takes time so better to start sooner than later. Week later our Cupbearer dies and we inherit his funds (I think). Not long after we get prosperity event
"Noice"!
Well that's nice and early. Now we miss only 1 holding slot and 1 province modifier to finish another county and move on. We are only missing Centre of Worship if you wondered what is missing province modifier wise.
Takes us up to October to return our levies within our borders and disband them safely. That 19.000 tribal troops surely cost. Yearly I would need over 400g to pay them.
Good rng doesn't leave us yet as we get the nickname and quite a nice sounding at that:
That's a good nickname to have. One we haven't had previously. I hate to have several characters with the same nicknames and well this AAR was more in risk of that than usual.
Out of curiosity I check history and it isn't the first Permyakid to be known for such a trait. Very first Emperor of Permo-Siberia (Kya in year 932) was also known for the same quality. Let's hope Vokan will do as many historic feats as his Ancestor!
Before November arrives quite a few things demand my attention at once and yet I do time my feast perfectly :]. First our Mother send letter accusing us of supporting some pirates that bully her coastal vassals so we deny those allegations to get +50 prestige (otherwise we would lose 50). Then Monastic group wants me to pay for charity and I happily do just that (putting us at 750 devotion with +228 devotion gain a year). Then well Feast starts. We also let curious Vokan to see how one of his Monastic friends achieved his botanical feats that gives us "Green Fingers" modifier (+1 Learning for next 10 years). As we receive Humble due to success in monastic mission I experience a little horror. Luckily enough it did not get rid of Ambitious (as Content is the opposite) but this is something to have in mind. It could well... also get rid of ambitious.
December starts with fury of Vokan's mother - Queen Potyava demands that we confess to being behind her recent trouble. We once again don't and our alliance is in tatters. But we can renew it at once - oh silly AI :>... We still are her only heir so in time we will re-unite all Komi lands to give away after clear administrative division. That reminds me - we can and should make alliance with Holy Roman Empire. Will help against Egypt even if our number of troops rapidly goes down (or will it go up? I can never tell given that Ally tribal vassal troops are not counted in ledger but instead upon becoming feudal you receive portion of them). Also CK2 giveths and CK2 takeths. This time even though I timed feast correctly it lasted just one day too long and we can't perform another x]. So I'm even and it is fair I guess.
Year 1106
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Another glorious year ahead of us. Started with another extraction war against 3 county vassal in preparation for feudalising. We still are waiting on Tarbagatai to finish it's construction (will take up to October). So for time being we might start as well our restructurisation of Permo-Siberia. I also would not loathe any claim generated Mr. Chancellor. On topic of - after so many peace years I kind of bummed out that we still didn't get books from Architecture collection in Far North Scriptorium.
Administration never truly ends when Ruling in Permo-Siberia. Thank Christ for those Excommunications as Orthodox.
As January nears the end we lose our Patriarch. Due to lack of decent replacement I generate holy men (piety no longer is an issue) and we get really skilled character - 23 Learning Mastermind Theologian + Mystic + Erudite + Zealous. Sent to Ryazan again his estimated county conversion chance is 35.54%!
After initial victorious battle against rebel troops, we experience massive pillgrimage to Saint Setyamka's grave. His son decides to converse with Pillgrims and becomes Gregarious in the process. Ideally before 30th April we are done with that revolt and Annuy chief gets executed after being stripped down of 2 out of his 3 tribes.
May starts not only with Summer Fair but also another prosperity event. The last province modifier is collected. We still have 1 more holding slot to generate here, but as those events (province modifiers and extra holding slots) can happen at the same time It would serve me better to move onto another county. Udmurts to the south is great candidate (already level 3 prosperity with 5/7 holding slots and only 1 province modifier). It is the only forest county we have and those have one unique province modifier that can lower either the construction cost and speed up construction speed.
Vokan proves again to be a skilled aministrator Even though he lacked his stewardship education
Few days later our Chinese Princess concubine becomes pregnant
. Sadly bigger nomadic incursion plagues my "over the limit" county in eastern Siberia. Over 2.200 strong host that previously helped us and chased off smaller nomads. Will have to deal with them but that will be costly in prestige (and we are at the moment at alomst 3.600).
In first week of July our Afghan sister of investor dies and our treasury baloons to 47,113 gold coins. Then one of our vassals accusess our jewish chancellor of looking at our wife with "lustful" eyes. We don't believe it. He might have plenty of enemies due to his origin and well working on generating claims as chancellor.
In October last construction finishes. We are ready to feudalise in steps. But before that I order another construction in Tarbagatai. Heard about interesting bug that let's you get extra tribal building in feudal holding if you start construction before feudalising. Let's try it
After creating just 9 duchies out of 20 we break through 5.000 needed prestige. I can now take "Forge a Bloodline" ambition and we do. Then I await for month to go over and game to update just in case. Before that we are able to reach 3rd rank within Monastic Society and well we do. Then we finally Feudalise!
Unexpectedly like 5-6 years earlier that I expected. Now we enter the final phase of this AAR! Time to start reinvesting big time into Siberian steppes
Few things happen. First of all we only get 4 free cities (Perm, Kudymkar, Udmurts and Burtasy). Second - every single tribe held by us converts :/ Meaning we are going to miss on that prestige savings. On other hand as I paused we feudalised instantly. So I can start constructions before vassals get free holdings that we will have to revoke anyway. Even though I precautiously raised levies in order to disband them, game refilled my holdings to maximum. So I can disband them now to save on gold. Also our income instantly shot up from whatever it was in last report up to +158.8! Only problem I just realised - I don't have Chinese Scholar-Bureacrat.
All heil China gold Age which doubles bonuses from him. That's a huge chunk of our bonuses.
Luckily this decision is instant and doesn't even need unpausing. Having that extra -30% Construction cost surely will help. Then I construct City in every county within realm I wish to hold, if it has 2 holding slots. Temple if there are 3 or more (as game won't allow me to spam just cities in counties with 3+ holding slots). Temples are also crucial to make first as I can't excommunicate Bishops. I can excommunicate Counts and Mayors. So need to appoint those bishops myself. So instantly close to 15.000 gold vanishes as costs vary between 200 in vassal counties down to 90 ducats in Perm duchy itself. Then I "Hospital up" duchy of Perm itself to protect prosperity (from now on we can and will generate our own epidemics). This isn't over as I can only build single holding in each county at the time. Also my micromanagment of vassals paid off. Only one vassal had building cost increasing province modifier thanks to that (that costed 350 instead of 200g to make city).
Now Crusade Kings 2 turns into proper "City Builder". This will have huge repercussions for Permo-Siberia in the future.
There are some problems - we are holding 7 duchies over the limit right now which isn't popular. Also after unpausing our vassals start feudalising too. They get free holdings but only of a type that isn't in construction. I didn't construct temple in every place that needed but I realised relatively quickly after few such provinces. So I should be ok. Had to give away our Tarbagatai castle because we are 17/11 demense limit. Then I created 16+ Stewardship nobles from decision and made them Mayors. From my theory crafting and consulting the wiki in the last few weeks that seems to be enough for each to hold 3 cities with room for stressed or depressed without penalty. Also high stewardship helps income tremendously.
I don't want to get rid of other counties as I still want to feed technology in farthest edges of empires quicker. There is one thing I can though - Given that right now our Vassal limit went down from 60+/38 to 9/49 I can increase the centralisation. With that we will be within demense limit.
Probably don't want high centralisation overall but for now it is a nice bandaid while holding 8 duchies at the same time.
As frantic work and waiting continue, our Chinese conbuine gives birth to first Prince of Feudal Permo-Siberia. Kezhevat Permyakid didn't inherit any trait at all from both of his Genius parents. Well probably will make for skilled administrator of some bishoprics. Then as we go with last (for some time) feast to commemorate our change in goverment some vassals start slowly feudalising.
How did it look in few months after fateful decision. Lightblue - feudal, darker blue - still tribal.
Year 1107
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After new year I realise I forgot about one little trick to help my finances - I should mass generate nobles before feudalising or before year changed. Cause game updated to our new income and cost of trying to generate decent steward went from 16.6g to 104.4g. Ughh and I went through all notes twice! Well will have to bite the bullet I suppose. At least this will jumpstart economy.
Days slowly pass as I diligently shape the empire - each city within de jure duchy of Perm and Bolgharia gets Mayor there and any cities outside are then given to those mentioned earlier. Sadly due to not insignificant -70 relationship penalty from too many duchies, my council no longer supports my decision in regard to distribution of power. My income also seems to be rapidly increasing as cost of new nobles increased once again to 148.7g! Upon checking - yea it sure did. Now Empire of Permo-Siberia is earning 596.83g a year! So we are already in top 5 wealthiest realms in the world and only some of our cities are constructed and those that are, don't have single building yet built xD.
Holly molly this method of distributing power is far better than I expected. Not suprised that earlier Iconoclast Sardinia also was an economic giant with such realm structure oO. Do remember that we tax 80% of our cities income while others probably tax 40% or less.
So far we constructed only 12 holdings (our realm size is at 163). Enough to exhausts our "Forge a bloodline" requirement for building 10 cities. So while waiting for notification I stockpile nobles before they become even more expensive (already down to 28.135 gold in treasury) till end of January. Not sure if I mentioned but our Nenetsian mother also has civil war against our uncle Kezhay III for the crown of Nenetsia. We have to help her but like really right now is not the time for it, as I need my attention elsewhere x]. I bribe my council a little that helps me give away some cities. Turns out I will need bribes for few months of council support or otherwise I won't be able to deal with all that. Also by accident gave away Tynea county to one new administrator so will have to revoke it soon. Oh. I Forgor that each of those Mayors will need wife if I want to manage it in longterm... So that's for now another 2.200 gold on Debutantes as I don't care for their stats.
New Basileos of ERE asks for our concubine. Well that's also something I overlooked - Vokan no longer is allowed to have concubines >D. That might seriously damage the amount of children that each character is able to sire. But now I won't give her away as current empress is mediocre and soon I will replace her. Having Chinese Princess as wife might be beneficial even only if for that +2.000 Chinese troops.
Another task fullfilled. This will increase the upper limit of what we can squeeze from those lands. Not only more % of taxes but also extra building providing inland trade modifier bonus and increasing base income of cities .
After achieving yet another historical feat, we are ready to press our Council into working diligently. Bribes did their magic. Luckily many of councillors are just courtiers thus don't cost us much. This way we can keep giving away needed holdings as well as hand off 3 over the limit duchies out of 7 to most learning inclided vassals within their de jure lands. That drops penalty to just -40. Also have to click on auto-stop plots as currently there is just too much going on for me. Soon our steward collects first extra tithe for some extra cash (+346.1g). Soon we also get first Carpenter Guild from Business focus (it requires being feudal thus, we haven't seen it before). It decreasaes City tax by 5% but reduces build time by -20% and built cost -10%. Sadly it landed on Irtysh tribe where I don't have much to build.
Days slowly tick as every 2-4 days several more holdings are finished and have to be administered. Problem being that by May I run out of direct vassals to pass cities onto. For time being I make temporal mayors that I keep excommuncatng to adjust later. Bolgharia is really bogging it out as by summer we have fully built almost all of de jure Perm duchy with cities yet Bolgharia is barely finishing first round of holdings. We are hold back by construction speed of all things... Which is the last thing I expected to happen (damn you technology spread mechanics).
By mid of June our realm size rises to 225 and yearly income to 895,74. And thats wth bunch of random not selected mayors. We have an accident o two. First somehow have 2 temples in Ashli but one of them belongs to my vassal. That might screw things a bit. On other hand when I created my blueprints I didn't included some tribal vassals constructing temples in the previous decades (which happened). So maybe it will match up? Also our spymaster died so I had to procure a new one. Decided it's a high time to get a divorce with wife found by Vokan's AI mother and instead marry 27 years old chinese princess. She has great stats and is a genius. Sadly during wedding this happens.
Let's hope that sudden charm passes. I really want some descendants and now as a Feudal we are severely limited with our children output.
Meanwhile war still rages in Nenetsia. My 12.000 retinues finally caught to bulk of uncle's Kezhay III forces. For the moment we have 10% warscore in our favour. I probably should speed things up, yet it took till now for most of my levies to arrive in Burtasy tribe. The more it takes, the more likely other neighbours might take a chunk of rebels land.
As you can see my attention is stretched beyond it's capabilities. We attacked with no commanders :/ Thus because it is poorly managed, this conflict will take longer.
As our troops bravely fight a tough battle, our young Emperor chases after the skirts. He decides to try his luck and gets Brave trait, yet his love leaves him hanging for now. We win but don't kill enough of rebels. At least it will slow their progress down as our levies roll out onto scene. Soon the year ends as we reach 248 realm size and yearly income of 1.631.61. With around 19.900 gold coins left in coffers annd still waiting on some cities to finish building. But majority (over 85% by my estimation) of holdings slots are already used.
With over 60 vassals before going Feudal we sure are getting spammed with notifications about our vassals feudalising.
Year 1108
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Year starts with chasing after survivors of Nenetsian rebels. Once we deal with their standing armies, we might siege them out at our leisure. There is some unexpected development in County of Perm. Using both currrent chaos and our lowered garrison sizes, some 800 strong nomadic host decided to try their luck and sack us. As I had to take a break from playing by end of previous year, Kolva levies were disbanded to be returned. So now those 1.700 men can deal wiith nomadic menace
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Soon we also lock ourselves onto some of Rebels in northern Nenetsia. Our troops under our most skilled Norse Hero brave the winter elements in that poorly supplied area. As they march on, I keep clicking and micromanaging. As I have mostly dealt with building now it is a time to generate even more female courtiers and marry them off to every single Mayor directly under us. Not only do they increase their stewardship for demense limit but also they might be a source of future mayor manipulations. In some cases they might even be decent to take over. There is also issue as one Bolgharian chief can't feudalise due to not having lvl 4 hillfort. So we fund him this, as we want to use that 4th province slot to build yet another city. Also being briefly over the demense limit (17/13) helped lower our income and thus get us a discount on cost of decision to generate courtiers (from 400g+ to just 80g
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Vokan's romantic adventurers continue. Our Protegee decided to try his hand as Poetry and I allow it. The penalty doesn't apply for us, as he is already stressed. Yet in return we get Poet trait. This is nice, as usually you will be getting it anyway and I hope by getting this early game might give us one of others desired events.
Multitasking at it's finest. Our character could not find worse time to be love struck.
In April we fight and win 4 different battles almost at the same time (against both Nenetsian rebels and some nomads). With that our mother's war goes towards 54% warscore for our cause but another 1.800 nomadic host shows up in Qazan. Then I spent over 6.000 worth of prestige (going from over 11.000 to around 5.400) to start upgrading buildings in any remaining tribes that doesn't seem likely to transform soon. Prioritising even levels of basic troops buildings to save on some cash in the future and bulk up our military. We did lost over half of our own personal levies (shrinked from 19.000 to 9.000) and I want to fight against Muhallabids soon. On topic of which - our cease fire vanished. Seems like 9 months ago Sultan with which we had ceasefire croaked. Which is not ideal as I preferred if he lived few years more so we can swiftly beat his realm twice in succession. What's worse he is currently suffering huge (32.000) Armenian liberation uprising. Will at least weaken him yet we want those lands ourself and with other Christians taking over, holy warring will become unavaiable). Also they will be a tougher nut to crack. Can't race them as we need to retrieve Nenetsia first.
June is marked by suicide of our Patriarch and Court Physician. We have to find a replacement and generate even better 25 Learning Holy Man. He too is Mastermind Theologian, Mystic AND Scholar + Erudite. That explains his high learning stat but also will unlock "fun" treatment options. Then our Jewish steward generates +50 economic technology points through his contacts. Then Chinese Emperor dies and is replaced by Emperor Li Muzong, who likes wealth, despises hindus and is expansionist. Good timing - we might give him Mjollnir to get him onto some Muslim realms
. Vokan lovestory continues too - he gets invited for hunting trip by his beloved husband.
We keep fighting and start assaulting tribes and our warscore soars toward 77%. Some Nomads are spotted early before entering north-eastern Cumania, thus our border guards from Irtysh are sent already. During hunting trip, there is accident. Vokan's love interest gets attacked by Wolf. I'm not risking him getting maimed so we try to shot the wolf before it can do damage to attacked woman but miss, thus she gets terribly mauled. Yikes! Thus Emperor's love story comes to an abrupt end and he gets depressed. Was it because he failed, or simply because he no longer feels attracked to crippled woman?
If only he didn't get depressed I would approve of this result. Now we will need to relieve him of both stress and depression. Time to set him on this "Sigma male grind mindset" I suppose...
At least the Nenetsian civil war is reaching it's end (99% warscore and we took their war leader capital). But that's sadly will have to wait for another part, as we just run out of time for this episode. Stay tuned when in next part I finally end organising our realm and start infrastructure buildup
. Also sadly our vassal friend did not get canonised :<.
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