To want what we have, to take what we're given

[Christensen]

January 1st 1066

Here they came, line after line of noblemen and servants riding walking and some even being carried down the old road, once laid down in order to quickly move the Kings troops around his lands. With a young nobleman, who seemed to be not more than 20 years of age, riding at the head of the column. Groups of peasants gathered in the roadsides murmuring and staring at the strange view in front of them. Who was these people? Rumours would say that the young man leading the group was in fact their new lord, the count of Jylland, and that he had come here to Skive, a small peasant village to build himself a new capital close to the fjord! “Complete craziness” the elder and more wise of the peasantry would say. Why build a new capital when the count could take residence in Viborg just 30 kilometres further south, in one of the most beautiful towns west of the Danish belts?
Put never the less it seemed as if that was the purpose of his journey.

None of them knew from where he came, or what he had done to deserve the power given to him by the good and noble King Svend. Not even the miller, who always seemed to know everything could answer their questions. But to most of them that didn't matter. They were only glad to be rid of their former master and lord, count Ulf of Viborg, a most brutal man. So it was with great enthusiasm that the local villagers started work on the new capital for their lord, who was soon to be known as Benjamin of Skive.

Work on the new capital is commensed:

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[Christensen]

This is my first ever AAR for Crusader Kings.

I'm playing with the 1.04a patch using different community graphic updates. I've added my own dynasty "The House of Skive" to the game, starting with a single character of the dynasty, who (as you probably have guessed if you've read the first post) is count of Jylland.

I must apologize for my lack in English grammer and spelling, but I hope it will not be too diffucult to read...

Please free to make comments, bring your ideas or correct my mistakes.

- Christensen

edit: oh, and btw... the first real update will come soon

 

[Veldmaarschalk]

Well, an orginal start.

Good luck with your AAR

Just wondering why you are still playing with patch 104a. And not with the latest beta ?

 

[Christensen]

Just wondering why you are still playing with patch 104a. And not with the latest beta ?

oooh... I didn't see that it was out :wacko:

 

[Veldmaarschalk]

oooh... I didn't see that it was out :wacko:

Really, the first public beta is more then a year old, and the latest betapatch was released on 15th/17th of august of this year.

Maybe still time for a restart ? The game is so much improved compared to 104a.

And the official 1.05 patch (which will be almost the same as the latest beta) will be released half december.

 

[unmerged(35395)]

cant wait to see how the AAR unfolds..

 

[Christensen]

December 1066. The town of Skive, Jylland, Denmark

It had taken all summer and a good part of the autumn too to build the new capital, but the result was worth the hard work. Peasants, workers, nobles and even the new count himself had taken part in the construction of the new town, but now it was finished, and just in time. In a few days lady Sophie von Kiel, the future wife to be of Count Benjamin would arrive, and then the wedding would be held in the old church. According to the myth the village of Skive was originally build around this church which had been build by a noble lady who, when he ship was sinking in on the Fjord, promised God, that if he brought her in land safe and sound, she would build a church to him where ever she would land. And thus Skive was created.

The town of Skive

Having never seen his future bride count Benjamin found the waiting time unbearable. This marriage was in fact not one of his wish, no.... King Svend had forced him to marry this spoiled girl of a wealthy German family in Kiel, whom he owed a lot of money. In order to please them, he had promised them that their now 24 year old daughter would be married to one of his counts, and thus the new count was an easy prey. He could not refuse the Kings order, although he wished he could.

Then, on a frosty December afternoon the delegation from Kiel arrived. They were only a few, a Lady Sophie, her two maidens, an elderly representative of the male line of the House of Kiel and a few soldiers who had been send by the Duke of Slesvig to protect them on their journey through Jutland. With them also was the Bishop of Viborg, on which house they had spent the previous night. He had followed them, in order to hold the wedding ceremony, and, Benjamin expected, to see the new capital, which had only recently taken the place of the Bishop's own town.

As he had feared his new wife was as ugly as an peasant girl. No wonder that she had not been married off earlier. But now he was stuck on her. And it was with her, that he was expected to produce a new heir to the House of Skive.

As could be expected it took it's time before Benjamin even dared visit his new wife's bed, instead he spend most of the time with his young steward, but then in the late autumn of 1067, the households chambermaid could announce that his wife was pregnant. This came at a very convenient time, as the new Pope Godfried, the former Duke of Lorraine, had called for the Christian nobility to join him in a crusade to recapture the town of Palermo from the Muslim infidel. Now, with a new heir on the way, count Benjamin could decline the Pope his support, and still keep his honour intact.

In the summer of 1068 the child was born, but to the counts grief, it turned out to be a girl. As to show his indifference with this unwanted female member of his house he decided to name her after another unwanted female of the same house, and thus the girl became known as Sophie the Younger.

To bring turn his mind to other things count Benjamin began an expansion of the farming facilities in his county. But knowing that he still needed to produce an heir he continued to visit his wife's bed. And in October he was brought the news, that she was once again pregnant. Lady Sophie the Elder went into labour on July 7th the next year, and in just two hours a new baby girl was born. The unlucky count Benjamin was so outraged that he even refused to attend the child's Baptism. Neither did he care for the girl or her younger sister, and it was only months later that it came to his attention that she had been named Dagmar.

More will follow.

 

[King of Men]

This looks quite interesting. As for your English, let me just note that I am possibly the most fanatical Grammar Communist on the forums; but you are doing a lot better than some people who ostensibly have English for a first language. I hereby make you a Hero of the Red Grammar Banner, third class. Carry on, comrade!

 

[Morpheus506]

Nice pictures of the town being built.