It’s time to hunker down for a while, though, because my vassals are pretty angry.
This is a bit like finding out that the Apostle Paul was actually a Satanist all along. So the reformed German religion was created, codified, and led by a man who secretly worshiped Hel. So I’m forced to rely on conventional assassins and bribery.Īnd the victory, combined with some older modifiers timing out, kicked me over 50%. My daughter Rögnfrið has been groomed to rule, as my only surviving child, but the electors insist on choosing someone else! I call on the dark gods to give her disease, but she only gets pneumonia and recovers quickly. Meanwhile, my efforts to secure the succession continue. The King of Germany is only 15, and busy with some other wars, so my occupation goes fairly well. I call in some tribal armies and start marching down through Denmark! So I only have to fight Germany, which owns Zeeland, and Germany is pretty splintered and weak. Unlike holy wars, pagan conquests don’t draw in neighboring co-religionists. Fortunately, as Norse, I can fight a pagan conquest not only against bordering counties but against any coastal county, so Zeeland is a fair target. Getting it back under German rule would give me +10% to moral authority. The county of Zeeland is the fifth Germanic holy site, currently under the control of Catholics. This is because other Germanic states affect it too, and they apparently aren’t doing that well. I’m making a little progress against the Finns and Estonians, but moral authority is going in the wrong direction. Ottarr still makes time for old-fashioned, non-demonic lunacy. Putting the woman I demonically possessed in charge of building me a statue? I … um, really should have seen this coming. Odin is with me! And I’m going to kill him! Fortunately I’m extra-healthy from, uh, eating my children.Ĭome to think of it, maybe that’s where food poisoning comes from? Who knows where they’ve been? It would help my succession enormously though, by getting me back into a situation with one top-level title.Īs usual, my doctors have no idea what’s going on. I get thing started by attacked the Finns to the east.Īlso on my list of goals is creating the Empire of Scandinavia, but that’s tough - it requires controlling 80% of the counties within this area, and I’m not even close. Two ways to raise it (by 1% each) are successfully taking counties by “pagan conquest” and burning infidel temples, which go nicely together. With control of three Germanic holy sites and sufficient piety, the barrier to my reforming the faith is getting moral authority over 50%.
When we left the Kingdom of Lapland, it was still under the bloodstained thumb of King Ottarr the Brute, who was fighting his way to reforming the Germanic faith with murder and black magic. Part One, Part Two, Part Three, and Part Four.