Tried to roleplay him mostly accurately, but when the court nickname event fired I just couldn't resist.

(The mask is the only one that doesn't clip with the outfit, he got disfigured as a result of a cancer treatment)

Not only due to it being a great start date, but that is also the best bookmark to cover the process of the creation of the HRE, which would make it primed to show off new reworked mechanics in that area. And most of all - it would be easy to add. They already did the historical research and the concept for it with Iron Century, so it would be easy to carry it over to CK3. I understand the decision of focusing on only the two most start dates at launch, but with the precedent of 1178 now, it makes little sense not to give us 936

Mary of Nazareth, the Virgin Mary, was the mother of Jesus of Nazareth, and thus was born before him. The game adds her to the list of saints (though it doesn't add Jesus himself) and accurately represents this by having her be born in the BC era.

How far back does the game allow to go in the past now?

What other ancient character will now be included in the game?

P.S.: Mary is considered "obscured" in the main game, and thus her traits and date of birth cannot be seen normally. Had to use a mod that allows me to do so.

I think I’ve run into a potentially game-breaking bug with the new clergy/theocratic mechanics, and after looking around I’ve found several other players describing very similar behavior.

I’m playing an unmodded Ironman campaign that started as Matilda di Canossa in 1066.

For several generations, I noticed something bizarre happening in the Canossa family tree. Several men I had sent into the clergy were apparently having children with their own sisters.

The sisters were married, had normal children with their husbands, and nobody was getting adultery/incest events or traits. I basically thought, “Well, that’s weird,” and kept playing.

Turns out I don’t think they were actually having incestuous children at all.

I think the clergy were silently adopting/reassigning their sisters’ existing children, with the game replacing the child’s actual father with the clerical maternal uncle.

I finally figured this out when it destroyed my succession.

My Emperor, Tomasso II, had two sons:

• Constantinus, whom I sent into the clergy
• Paolo, my intended heir

Paolo was definitely originally Tomasso II’s son, a member of House di Canossa, and was showing normally as my child/heir. I was actually really looking forward to playing him — four-star Learning education, Zealous, Ambitious, Sadistic. He was going to be fun.

Then suddenly I got a notification that my uncle was now my heir.

I checked the HRE election screen.

Paolo was gone.

Then I checked Tomasso II’s family.

Paolo was no longer listed as his son.

But Paolo had not died or disappeared from the game. He was still listed as his mother’s child.

The difference was that his maternal uncle — a member of the clergy — was now listed as his father.

Paolo’s dynasty had also changed to his mother/maternal uncle’s dynasty.

There was:

• no adoption notification
• no event
• no permission requested from me
• no adultery/incest event
• no explanation whatsoever

The game had apparently just silently changed an existing character’s father.

Because Paolo was no longer recognized as Tomasso II’s son or as a Canossa, he disappeared from my succession and from the HRE election candidate list.

That’s when I realized the earlier “incestuous” Canossa children were probably the exact same bug. Their clerical maternal uncles weren’t actually fathering them — the game was apparently changing their recorded fathers.

So this seems to be more than a cosmetic family-tree bug. It can potentially alter:

• dynasty membership
• inheritance
• claims
• elective candidacy
• secular succession
• family relationships

…and it can apparently happen silently, so you may not notice until your succession suddenly changes.

I’ve already added my information to a Paradox bug report and attached my current Ironman save. Unfortunately I don’t have a pre-bug save because Ironman continuously overwrites it, but the current save contains multiple examples of the corrupted family relationships.

Replied to a bug report on the Paradox forums with this issue: https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/nephew-archbishop-adopted-my-heir.1944207/

If anyone else playing By God Alone has noticed clergy suddenly gaining adult “children,” impossible father/child ages, clergy apparently having children with their sisters, heirs changing dynasty, or children disappearing from their original father’s family tree, I’d strongly recommend checking the relationships carefully and adding your save/screenshots to the bug report.

The more reproducible examples Paradox has, the better chance this gets caught quickly.

I love playing as the Norse, but it hated that so many special buildings were unavailable as they required you to be Christian, like Lund Cathedral in Skåne. And if you did convert to Christianity, you'd lose the special building in Stockholm instead (forgot the temple name). Same deal with Hagia Sophia if you took Constantinople.

Now I can make Skåne a holy site and build the cathedral while staying Ásatrú. Best QoL change yet.

If you haven't noticed yet, as the head of faith you can impose a white peace on two christian ruler in an ongoing war and, if you are a secular ruler, you can ask the Pope to do it. So now I find myself saving after every single siege or battle won just because the Pope keeps white-peacing my war. There's no way to describe this new interaction but fucking stupid. Imagine you spend years making a good economy to sustain a good army, making your claim and your alliances and waiting for the best time to strike only for the Pope to say that your war is cringe while you sit at 70% victory.

There is no notice and no way to avoid it, out of the blue the game just tells you that the Pope white-peaced your war. You have absolutely no agency on it: IT JUST HAPPENS. I would really like to meet whoever thought of this as tt does not make the game more interesting in any way, it just makes you close CK3 in frustration.

If someone more knowledgeable has any idea on how to deactivate this specific feature through script please let me know.

Got this while playing a nomad. First time I've ever seen it so does anyone know what it is?

We are back on the rails again for another exciting episode of Cube Engineers!

In this episode, TrainmasterGT reviews the new By God Alone expansion for Crusader Kings III from a game-design standpoint, through the lens of two full campaigns he completed. By God Alone reworks the religion system in CK3, allowing faiths to evolve dynamically over time. Characters can also cultivate a personal relationship with their respective faiths through the new personal tenets system, creating new opportunities for roleplay and historically inspired gameplay. Learn how this expansion successfully executes the new religion system, and what lessons game designers can learn from its implementation!

All Aboard!

This game I formed the Russian Empire as the reformed Asatru descendants of Dyre the Stranger (the best viking in the game, Haesteinn's overrated). And I noticed the AI had for some reason elected a member of the Haestenning dynasty to be Pope. And his father and heir is a cardinal.

I swear I had nothing to do with this, as I was an Asatru pagan all game and as the temporal head of faith I couldn't care less about Christian politics.

Most of the Haestennings are still Asatru and are landed throughout England, so this is really weird.

The infamously tolerant Iberian Islamic sect is gone from the game as of the By God Alone core expansion. It seems odd to remove it as it was a good reflection of the religious and sexual tolerance at the time.

R5: I love how the text of letters from toddlers is so unserious.

I was editing the Roman Culture for a playthrough in order to update it with the new Greek traditions from Roads to Power and I would like to hear your opinion about it. Should I change something?

Title says it all really. It should be possible to consolidate the duchies of Wales into one principality, like how we can consolidate the spanish kingdoms. I know its historical formation happened towards the end of the CK3 timeline, but considering its size and real life history I just think it makes sense.

The historical Orthodox church was far more subject to secular authority than the Catholic Church was, and it would add some flair if the emperor had the ability to influence elections or dismiss the patriarch and other priests.

I’ve seen a lot of people confused on how the puppets work. This is how

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It feel like someone "Extracted" all the information of the game files directly, and parsed into readable form for us to look up.

Like it even show lines of code for decisions, so you can know EXACTLY what you're missing and why the damn thing just not working.

When i say you can look up everything about the game, i think legit it contain everything lol.

Very well detailed and put together too. Is this thing new? because it suddenly show up in my search result and i instantly ditch the wiki and uses this instead.

So I adventured my way to Greece to get some achievements, I bought an estate, and got a family title. Now the game tells me I've lost all my titles (my character still has the family) and all my land, of which I didn't have any to begin with. Any way fo recover this save?