Lords

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Lords are the characters that can be controlled by players and can be ordered to do a variety of actions. Lords are listed on the top of the screen, where they will have a green, yellow or red background depending on their Mood. Lords can be obtained by childbirth within the family or from freelance lords.

If a lord is unhappen they will refuse to do any tasks unless they have the "Strong will" personality trait. In addition they may experience a nervous breakdown.

However they will refuse to undertake them if they are unhappy unless they have the "Strong will" personality trait.

Characters with the age 0-13 will be children. Children start without skills but will randomly increase them every day. They can also gain positive or negative traits during their upbringing, especially the more they are educated.

Until the age 21, lords gain double experience from lessons.

Lords can visit each other's cities. Treating them well can lead to them offering to increase skills. Alternatively they may be kidnapped but this has consequences.

The relation between two kings affect diplomatic relations between their cities. Kings are also biased against women on the throne and women on the throne also cannot marry so their children will be bastards.

Sometimes freelance lords will arrive with the Holy Caravan. Freelance lords can be hired for 10 days for a price of Holy Rings.png Holy Rings that scales with the hiring lord's Persuasion.png Persuasion skill. While hired a freelance lord will function like any other lord.

Skills

Every lord has 8 skills, which determine their effectiveness when undertaking tasks and are increased by training. Children gain more experience from training.

  • Manners.png Manners provides a significant bonus to relations and interest. However, a significant difference in skill level can lead to rejection between lords. It is increased by learning Rhetoric.
  • Trade.png Trade determines the effectiveness of trading goods. When trading on the global map, each point of Trade skill difference increases or decreases prices by 3%. It is increased by learning Economy.
  • Persuasion.png Persuasion determines the effectiveness of actions related to communication and influencing other lords, including certain deep conversations. It also affects the effectiveness of sermons. It is increased by learning Rhetoric.
  • Intellect.png Intellect determines the speed of acquiring knowledge, the speed of writing books, the likelihood of insight, and the probability of winning dice games. It is increased by learning Philosophy.
  • Management.png Management determines the amount of additional production when the lord is assigned as manager. It is increased by learning Economy.
  • Teaching.png Teaching determines the amount of experience transferred during teaching. It is increased by learning Philosophy.
  • Combat.png Combat gives a chance to evade an enemy's attack based on the difference in skill level. It is increased by learning Warfare.
  • Command.png Command determines the magnitude of the mood, and thus bravery, bonus for warriors in the commanded army. It is increased by learning Warfare.

Personality traits

Every lord will have a number of personality traits, which affect how the lord behaves.

Trait Effects Reason
Unattractive -10 interest from other characters
Attractive +10 interest from other characters
Beautiful +20 interest from other characters
Difficult childbirth Increased chance of dying during childbirth Inherited
Early balding High chance of experiencing baldness earlier than usual Inherited
High fertility +30% chance of getting pregnant Inherited
Low fertility -30% chance of getting pregnant Inherited
Mental impairment Has the "Joy of foolishness" thought (+8 Mood)
-50% experience from learning
Inherited
Calm All nervous breakdowns are light Happy childhood
Courageous Higher threshold for bravery Happy childhood
Empathetic Social thoughts are enhanced Happy childhood
Monogamous Falls in love only once Happy childhood
Strong will Works when unhappy Happy childhood
Resistance to addictions Lower chance of developing dependencies Happy childhood
Cynic Social thoughts and thoughts about the death of loved ones are weaker Unhappy childhood
Envious More prone to feeling envious towards others Unhappy childhood
Gambling addiction Gives a bad thought if the lord did not play dice games in a while
Thoughts on winning and losing have greater effect on Mood
Unhappy childhood
Lustful Sex need becomes unfulfilled twice as fast Unhappy childhood
Nervous All nervous breakdowns are severe Unhappy childhood
Tendency to addiction Higher chance of developing dependencies Unhappy childhood
Anxious Always wakes up during a home invasion Experienced a home invasion or captivity
Ascetic No thoughts from lack or excess of Holy Rings Long time fanatic
Devout Always fanatic Nervous breakdown or someone close passed away
Substance aversion Hates characters with addiction Someone close has an addiction

King traits

Kings start with a trait that determines what other kings they will like and dislike.

Trait Likes Dislikes
Defender of Order Kings who destroy bandit camps Kings who tolerate bandit camps in their provinces and interact with them
Greedy Kings who have twice more Holy Rings than themselves Kings who have twice fewer Holy Rings than themselves
Liberator Kings without slaves Kings with 50% of population as slaves
Religious Religious kings Agnostic kings
Sycophant Suzerain kings Vassal kings
Supporter of Power Kings whose armies are twice bigger Kings whose armies are twice smaller
Scientist Kings with higher Intellect skill than themselves

Skill traits

Skill traits will only function after the lord raises the required skill to 15 or above.

Trait Effects Skill
Charismatic +15 interest from opposite sex characters and can freely visit enemy cities Manners.png Manners
Combat instructor Training warriors at the Training Ground gives double experience Teaching.png Teaching
Defender of the city Doubles the bravery and pain threshold of the commanded army Command.png Command
Diplomat Lord can convince enemy kings to forget all grievances and return to normal level of relations Persuasion.png Persuasion
Forecaster Every Holy Caravan arrives with a notification about upcoming prices Trade.png Trade
Head chopper Higher chance of decapitating opponents if equipped with a weapon Combat.png Combat
Sharp-tongued When in charge of the Chancellery, clerks give half of this lord's production bonus to managed buildings Management.png Management
Poisoner Can attempt to poison someone by command or own will
If successful nobody will know and if not successful the victim may engage in a fight to the death
The chance of success depends on the difference in Intellect skill between the lord and the victim
Intellect.png Intellect

Actions

Lords can undertake various actions. Actions between parents and their children will satisfy the Care need.

King

King actions can only be performed by the king on other lords.

  • Appoint as Heir.png Appoint as Heir: Makes the targeted lord the heir. The old heir will feel suppressed and develop resentment towards both the king and the new heir.
  • Reward.png Reward: Costs 5 Holy Rings and gives the targeted lord +25 Loyalty, +8 Relations with the king and the "Rewarded" thought, whose Mood bonus scales with the king's Persuasion skill, for 3 days.
  • File:Threaten.png Threaten: Gives the targeted lord "Threatened" thought (-18 Mood) for 2 days and Loyalty that scales with the king's Persuasion skill.
  • Gift to the King.png Gift to the King: Takes up to 5 Holy Rings from the targeted lord and gives it -25 Loyalty and the "Rewarded" thought, whose Mood penalty scales with the king's Persuasion skill, for 4 days.

Punish

Punish actions are unlocked by constructing a Scaffold. They will remove the thought of impunity from any of their victims. Punishing an innocent character will produce terror and give them a negative thought.

  • File:Execution.png Execution: The punished character is killed. Some criminals who witness the execution might become cutthroats.
  • Mask of shame.png Mask of shame: The punished character wears the Mask of Shame for a day and any character in a bad mood can freely beat them. If they are a simple criminal they will become a peasant after the punishment expires.
  • Homeless.png Exile: The punished character leaves the city. If they are a simple criminal they will join the forest bandits.
  • Blindness.png Blindness: The punished character's movement speed will be significantly reduced and many tasks will become unavailable to them. If they were a lord their combat skill will be reset to 0 and their attractiveness will be greatly reduced.

Learn

Learn actions increase a lord's skill. After choosing the action you must choose another lord as teacher. The effectiveness depends on the teacher's Teaching skill and each skill can only be increased up to the teacher's own skill level. The action will be performed daily as long as it is possible and decreases Rest for both lords. Each lesson provides experience points that scale with the teacher's Teaching skill.

  • Rhetoric.png Rhetoric increases Manners.png Manners and Persuasion.png Persuasion
  • Economy.png Economy increases Trade.png Trade and Management.png Management
  • Philosophy.png Philosophy increases Intellect.png Intellect and Teaching.png Teaching
  • Warfare.png Warfare increases Combat.png Combat and Command.png Command

Social

Social actions are only available with other lords.

  • Communication
    • Spend Time.png Spend Time: The lords spend time together. There will be 2 deep conversations, one started by each lord. The probability of conversations being good or bad depends on each lord's Mood.
    • Wolf Hunting.png Wolf Hunting: Only available to adult lords if there are wolves available for hunting in the forest.
    • File:Challenge to a Duel.png Challenge to a Duel: Only available to adult lords if both participants have armor and weapons. Removes the desire for the death of the enemy if any exists between the duelists. The duel continues until one of the participants dies or loses consciousness. The more pain the duelist inflicts upon their opponent, the easier the rest of the duel becomes.
    • Play Dice.png Play Dice: Only available to adult lords. Bets 5 Holy Rings. The outcome is random but partially influenced by both lords' Intellect skill.
  • Intrigue
    • Seduce.png Seduce
    • Bribe.png Bribe: Only available towards lords in another city except the king. It costs 7 Holy Rings and decreases the targeted lord's loyalty towards their king. The amount of loyalty decreased depends on the performer's Persuasion skill. If loyalty falls below 25 and the targeted lord is the heir they may raise a rebellion.

Hire a Lord

This action is only available with a freelance lord. The freelance lord will be hired and the cost will scale with the buying lord's Persuasion skill.

Capture

This action is only available with a guest and only lords with at least 75 Loyalty can attempt it. When the guest is sleeping the lord will attempt to take it prisoner. There is a 40% chance to succeed, otherwise the guest will have to be defeated before it can escape. Whether successful or not, relations between the king and the victim and neighboring kings will greatly decrease.

Exile

This action is only available with a guest. The guest will leave but relations between the king and their king will decrease.

Sex for payment

This action is only available with a peasant of opposite gender and costs 1 Holy Rings. The lord will fulfill 15% of their Sex need. The lord will gain the "Shame for sins" thought (-22 Mood) and the peasant will gain the "Was used" thought (-20 Mood) for 2 days. This can result in a pregnancy where the child who will be a bastard. This action is considered a sin.

Free

This action is only available with a slave and will turn it into a peasant. If the slave was yearning for freedom the action will also give it the "Joy of freedom" thought (+48 Mood) for 10 days.

Prisoners

Prisoners are lords that have been kidnapped. There are three ways to kidnap a lord:

  • Guests can be kidnapped via the Capture action.
  • You can order the kidnapping of a lord from a neighboring province.
  • Unconscious lords in a defeated army will be kidnapped by the victor.

Prisoners start with a loyalty of -100. If loyalty is raised to 0 they will join the city and will no longer be prisoners.

Unhappy prisoners will try to escape. This can be prevented by blinding the prisoner but this will greatly limit their capabilities.

Prisoners can be assigned to any action except military ones.

Prisoners can be returned either by paying a ransom or by defeating the kidnapper.