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Heroic Dynasty

The target of this mod is to give norse characters the feeling of living in a pure warrior society. This version of the mod adds an absolute cognatic spin to this society. There is also a version that focuses purely on women / shieldmaidens. https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1439110468

How does it work?

The mod allows only the absolute cognatic succession law for norse ruler (equality between females/males) and gives every norse person in the game a trait, which makes them ineligible for rulership. The only way to get rid of this trait is by gaining the traits shieldmaiden or heroic blood, which in return guarantees that only those with these traits will be able to rule. To make sure this is achievable I change several things in addition. Let's start with the traits.


NEW TRAITS:
-Nordic Person – Every norse person, who isn't a ruler with level count or higher, will receive this. It prevents one from inheriting titles. (There are some ways for new characters to be generated where they won't immediately receive the trait. For this there is a small event, which will tag them accordingly within 6 ingame days)

- Shieldmaiden (women) / Heroic Blood (men): Characters with these traits will be able to rule and inherit titles. To get them you don't need certain skills or traits anymore. You just need an appropriate amount of prestige. How do you gain this? By duelling.

- Honorseeker: Close relatives of rulers or characters with the traits, which normally allow one to become a shieldmaiden, will receive the trait honorseeker. Honorseeker will duell each other. Based on their traits and combat rating they will search for weaker, equal or stronger enemies. Depending of their targets strength they will gain an appropriate amount of prestige. At the beginning of the game you will be able to adjust the lethality of these duels via a game rule.

- Einherjar (name for the heroes residing in valhalla): Old honorseeker, who aren't close relatives of a ruler anymore, will gain this trait. They will aim for a honorable death and therefore duells between einherjar are much more lethal. If an einherjar is killed by another one, the dead one will gain the trait vallhalla bound.

- Elected: Similiar to shieldmaiden / heroic blood, but for civil rulers. Leaders of theocracies, republics of level count or patricians will gain this.


INGAME:
This mod is designed to be used together with my other mod "Attribute Succession" (focused on prestige), which works similar to nomad succession and favors the close relative of the ruler, which has the greatest amount of prestige.

So, how does it work practically? Starting rulers (counts or higher) will instantly receive the traits heroic blood or shieldmaiden. Your adult children and all other close relatives will become honor seeker and start dueling. They will continue dueling even after receiving shieldmaiden / heroic blood (becoming eligible as heirs), because only the one with the biggest amount of prestige will inherit. The only way to make them stop dueling is by giving them a title.

Should you die without an eligible heir (= a character without the trait nordic person) → game over. Please remember: Only adults can become shieldmaidens or receive heroic blood.


REFORMATION:
This mod forces you to chose Enatic Clans/Equality (depending on your version choose ENATIC or EQUALITY for the FLAVOR RULE at the beginning of the game) during reformation. To compensate for this, the perks Enatic Clans/Equality were merged with "Sons of Ragnarok", which means you will also retain your ability to use rivers & to start invasions.


REQUIREMENTS
The Mod needs the DLCs listed on the right side (Holy Fury OR the Old Gods should suffice, though both would be best). Furthermore you'll need my other mod "Attribute Successions". If you want, you can also use my Flavor mod, which makes the unreformed norse religion more matriarchal (Shieldmaiden Dynasty) / absolute cognatic (Heroic Dynasty).

IF YOU DON'T HAVE HOLY FURY you must use the Flavor mod, because it makes some necessary adjustements.


IMPORTANT
Upon starting the game for the first time, you should save it and reload it. The reason for this is that there are so many norse characters, that the mod has problems to tag all of them with the trait nordic person at once.


INCOMPABILITY
To be honest: The easiest way would be if you open zip file in 'C:\Users\[Your Username]\Documents\Paradox Interactive\Crusader Kings II\mod' and just look inside which files are listed there. Any other mod, who change the same files, will be incompatible.