The Grand Chronicle- A (Hopefully) Humorous Megacampaign ARR Pt.1: It Begins

[Sunsteel]

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By my friend @MothofSpacetime
Off in the deep primordial soup of the universe, the earth was created. Now let us fast-forward a bit to the year 1066 where Count Otger Rules over the small county of Spreewald, this is the adventure of his realm from 1066-1945

Mod List for CK3: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2928591825
DLC: All but the event pack

 

[Sunsteel]

(I'm not great at writing/humor so if someone could give me pointers that would be great)
So here is Otger in all his "glory"

and his rival

Who I have quickly disposed of

and now I have started my first conquest against the minor count of Wittenberg

And he is quickly disposed of

Or maybe I don't have to write humor, the ai just does it for me

We now have an heir, he didn't get the intellect of his father or mother though

and another son already, it's only been a year (since the last one) this is going to make succession diffcult

and through copious amounts of cash, I now have a claim on my old rival's land

Time to get somebody else's my rightful land

Not My rightfully land was obtained

anyways, bye for now

 

[Sunsteel]

(I'm not great at writing/humor so if someone could give me pointers that would be great)
Another son I guess

And after a short war, another Definitely not rightful county has been added

And with the click of a button, I can claim the dutchy of Lausitz

And after a short war

I am now the new duke of Lausitz (I need a new name for it, so someone please tell me)

My heir grew up, he is not great

and Otger has died, sadly

and that's where we will leave it for now

 

[Sunsteel]

So, my plan is that this will be a full megacampaign (1066-1945) and it might be sort of a slow burn. Though, I do want to improve a lot seeing as how I'm not great at writing.

 

[Sunsteel]

Another name you could do is Milcenia, which is probably another duchy in the game, probably named Meissen

Meissen is the one right next to it
(I'm not great at writing/humor so if someone could give me pointers that would be great)

Now it is time for the rule of Duke Laurentz
He has an heir already

And he tried to murder one of his younger brothers, so nobody likes him

And the old ruler of this land has started a liberty war oh noo

Another son now is not the time

That faction was crushed

A Crusade eh, this won't go well

Got Profagate due to stress

We lost, such a surprise, at least I got the crusader trait

Another son just great

My heir, not bad not good

So, umm let's see if I can push that later (this isn't even gamey, my ruler is greedy and ambitious, it makes perfect sense)

Another pesky child

and that's all for now.

 

[Sunsteel]

(I'm not great at writing/humor so if someone could give me pointers that would be great)
Should I diverge into a culture or should I merge with Polabian? I'm thinking diverge because of RP but Koni Raids are so good.

Ah, the HRE, a great nation and also so in debt I can take this decision (should I?)

They are also in three wars, one of them claimant

This leaves the question, should I leave and join with Poland for weaker enemies, or should I stay and try and drag the HRE out of the hole it's digging for itself

 

[Sunsteel]

sorry I didn't do anything the last few days, I was planning for the upcoming MP game on the EU4 discord and a new Vic3 open beta came out so progress may be a bit slow



(I'm not great at writing/humor so if someone could give me pointers that would be great)
Oh boy

Now this kid is my heir

and the HRE has now stabliesed

Inheritance is not great right now

A holy war for a new duchy

and another son died

and a new one to take his place

Victory!

I guess I have a vote now (IDK why, can someone explain how princely works)

and with another holy war, I should be able to form a kingdom

and just like that

and one more

and he died from illness before I can make the kingdom

Bye for now, and an overview of the world is coming soon

 

[Sunsteel]

(I'm not great at writing/humor so if someone could give me pointers that would be great)
Duke Gehrke

after a short war

I would try to quickly put my realm back together, but I didn't get claims

Not great, but ok

Forgot to tell everybody when it started

But somehow I managed to get number one contribution, which means that the most powerful member of the Renart dynasty is in Valencia so should I move over there and become a crusading house or should I stay where the plan was to be? I'm leaning towards staying, but what do you think?
(let's hold a vote or something)
Anyways, bye for now

 

[Sunsteel]

So, I'm wondering since I have a more powerful crusader kingdom than my mear duchy, should I swap to the crusader kingdom?

 

[Sunsteel]

And with the push of a button
Queen Athela of Valencia

The new realm (A new name for it perhaps?)

Though, I may have the old ruler come back...

What an unflattering nickname

A daughter and (for now) a player heir

and creating a cadet branch

finally out of Confederate Partition

Another daughter

Another bad nickname, though I guess it's better than "the fishy"

And a son

with another daughter I guess

and I die to the 6% chance hunting accident. Oh boy.

That's enough for now.

 

[Sunsteel]

The world in 1146

 

[Sunsteel]

King Guillaume

A small war for part of Sardinia

And that war was quickly won

I got a cat

Ok then

Ummm, that's a bug (I'm guessing something messed up in a RICE namelist or something like that)

So here he is, as an adult

Player heir

A crusade for Aragon which has one province owned by Muslims...

So I redirected it to Egypt because it's divided

We won

Another daughter

Daughter 3

Diverged culture (didn't do hybrid because I could only do it with Andulsians)

The Abbasids are migrating

I'm taking equal inheritance because I keep having daughters

Another daughter

and that's all for now

 

[Sunsteel]

(No like seriously, we're a little over 100 years in)
Oh boy

Oh, Francia died

Had so much stress I abdicated

Queen Addila

That's all for now

 

[Sunsteel]

That was my first time abdicating, I'm normally really good with stress management
Egypt took Jerusalem because the Muslim powers have entirely collapsed

Just because it's funny, the last landed member of the Normandie dynasty (for a little bit the kings of England were Welsh)

A person of my dynasty is the king of Norway, I don't know for how long (this is from the branch that split off when my second guy died)

On second look Norway is very weird right now, will keep updated

Oh cool, they formed Jerusalem

Let's go

A crusade for the Maghreb

Oh boy

That's another kingdom

Ummm

Cool Nickname

Just got the Bells of Santiago back

Oh my, but not my issue

Taking warriors by merit because it kind of fits with the queendom thing I roped myself into

Crusade, Andalusia

It failed, we can take the holy land but not Spain....

Status Quo

That's all for now

 

[Sunsteel]

Let's go

You know what I said about the Mongols not being my problem (their on their second leader)

I'm going to leave that alive for now because it's cool

I just don't know

Baleo-Tyrrhenia!

Ate most of Italy after eating Sicily

and that's all for now

 

[Sunsteel]

Sure, do what you want

After a bit of expansion and a rebrand

A bit of an update on Norway, it is firmly within the hold of the Renart dynasty

I found Muhammad's sword laying around

Oh, honestly I kind of feel sad about that

Kaiserin Suanhilde

She didn't last long

Kaiserin Agnes

Crusade for Africa (was Germany, but I don't want to fight the Mongols)

Not a hard crusade

and the newest queen of the dynasty

Good enough nickname

OH NO

This seems like it will work

It did

Map of the world (Golden Horde and Ilkhanate are Orthodox, White Horde and Black Horde are Ash'ari, Chagatai is Maturdi, and Mongolia is Tengri)

That's all for now

 

[Sunsteel]

Sure, why not

Big holy war

Victory

Just going to grant it independence under my dynasty

Bavaria collapsed, but so did the White Horde

Ikhante collapsed, but now we have big Serbia

One of my vassals inherited Africa

Just got most of Croatia

More Dipo vassals

Mongol Caliph, I don't know what to think of this

Crusade for Anantolia

Kaiserin Bia

We won

And a new throne for our dynasty

Another Scholar

Picking up Maritime Mecantilism

And that's all for now

 

[Sunsteel]

Cool dynasty CoA for a Swedish duke

Another death

Kaiserin Bertrada

The Hordes have colapsed

Yet another Scholar

I have taken Constantinople

Oh

My new heir

Sadly, our dynasty lost the starting place of the county of Spreewald during the Mongol invasion

Crusade for Bjarmaland

Victory and another throne for our dynasty

That's all for now

 

[Sunsteel]

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/the-grand-chronicle-a-hopefully-humorous-megacampaign-arr-pt-2-the-empire-on-the-med.1569706/ IS PART TWO
THIS IS THE LAST SECTION OF THE CK3 LEG

I'm cutting off CK3 100-odd years early because I have no more tech, not a lot will happen, and lag, here is the world as we move to EU4
Nations of the world

Faiths of the world

Cultures of the world

and dynasty stats, I would show the whole family tree but then we would be here all week getting good looks at it