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Vampire Kingdoms 2.0

Greetings friends,

So way back in CKII 1.0..x or something, I reworked Mr. Capiatlist's mod "Glorious Knights and Terror in the Night" with some additions. Well I had some free time and have, after a long hiatus, updated my Vampire Kingdoms mod to a 2.0 version that is compatible with CKII 2.3.3 (I hope ... heh).

A link to the Paradox Forums thread can be found here:

http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?843618-Vampire-Kingdoms-2.0

Anywho, what does it do? Basically it adds a rather nice version of vampires into the game. Details are below.

* Become a vampire! There are four different types of vampire. The first three are the Tarsas (schemers and seducers), the von Tannenfels (rulers and Vlad the Impaler types) and the Haineux (warrior vampires). The fourth, the Puternic are not available to become as basically you're a nosferatu type vampire. There will be AI controlled ones though of the fourth type. You can either wait for a special event to pop up which might lead you down one of these paths (these are multi-step storylike events) or there is a Decision to become one. You start with your vampiric nature hidden (so a Tannenfels vampire will have the trait Princely rather than the Tannenfels trait), but you can choose to "come out of the coffin" so to speak. Doing so opens a whole array of further options.

* Your fertility is obviously in the crapper as a vampire (though you are technically immortal). You can spread your vampirism to courtiers or you have a choice to groome a Childe. This spawns a youth of your dynasty whom you can eventually turn into a vampire to succeed you.

* There are two mutually exclusive undead kingdoms that can be formed. The Kingdom of Morthal and the Kingdom of the Darklands are now creatable by vampires with CoA and stuff and things. You can't form both, so choose wisely. Not that there's much of a difference (at the current release).

* There are two Holy orders available and two Merc groups available (though the Merc groups won't be available if you are too far away from Eastern Europe ... I think). Once you are a King of either Morthal or the Darklands, you can also spawn zombies and skeletons. Its expensive to summon them, but they can be worthwhile (I have nerfed them since 1.0 though). As you're hated by people around you once you're a revealed vampire, expect Holy Wars, Crusades and Jihads against you. Its not easy being a bloodsucker. So the ability to raise zombie and skeleton armies to serve you in a pinch will come in handy.

* Welcome to the religion of the vampires! Would you like some cookies? The Morthali religion of the Sanguine group now has a religious head. The Dracul of the Cult of Blood is a landless, titular title based in a county in Transylvania (which one depends on the mod you're using, but it should be Feher). The Dracul *should* be able to call a crusade (called The Blackening) but I don't know how to trigger this to test to see if it works. Invasion CB and Holy War CB work fine though.

* There are lots of other scripted events and flavour stuff ... like vampiric taint spreading through you realm, instilling fear in the peasants and the like. Enjoy!

I'll post links to a dropbox download of the mod below as well as a list of things I intend on working on. As well as some bug like issues. So far, it seems to run just fine. As it doesn't replace any files, just adds to them, it should be compatible with just about any mod *crosses fingers*. It used to be compatible with Lux Invicta, Project Balance and the like, but I haven't tested it yet with the updates to all of those. So enjoy and please report to me if you find anything of note.

Enjoy!

Download Direct: https://www.dropbox.com/s/np99z4oyt7bip97/vampirekingdoms.2.0.3b.zip?dl=0