u/NebNay

Rule5: Context and choices below.

I started as a danish duke in 867, quickly unified denmark. Proceeded to make a fortune raiding all over europe, building up my kingdom.

Eventually, i figured i should become a respectable feudal lord when the holy roman emperor himself sent his chaplain to try and convert me.

I converted and instantly turned feudal, changed the succession to elective. I also married my daughter-heir to a son of the emperor (Karling). When she took the throne, i made a couple more mariages to emperor family and moved the capital to hamburg (the HRE capital being the next county over the river, more for RP reasons than gameplay).

My kingdom was growing in the meantime, and seing how all of those changes came from getting close to a german family, i decided to switch from norse culture to german. I spent a couple decades reorganising the kingdom, conquering pagans and giving duke titles to loyal german catholics (most of them joining my court through the special Karling bloodline).

That brings us to today. While germanisation has worked, half of de jure denmark and a third of my vassals are still norse (next to no tribal tho). The marriages with the emperor family mostly died out, except from my ruling family, and the empire elected from another dynasty anyway.

My current ruler has to be the perfect character (just look at those traits), i already won a war against poland and i'll soon take over the duchy of Kurland.

But after that, what should i do with this perfect ruler to make sure she goes down in history? I have a few ideas in mind but i'm open to suggestions.

A) I could stay on track, keep invading and feudalising pagan lands around the baltic. Eventually forming a baltic empire.

B) I could have a 'change in course', reconnect with the germans, become a vassal of the HRE and maybe let go of a few vassals as HRE princes. The point would be to focus on the western part of my kingdom, building up, taking over the western coast of the HRE. But i would also helping it become bigger in the east for no personnal gain other than roleplay as a spear of Christianity.

C) I didnt mention, but both England, Scoltand and me are descendant of Ragnar lothbrok. I could join our family or conquer my way there, to make my dynasty rule over the isles. I would let go of those titles and come back to the "what do i do with the danish kingdom" question later. I dont want a britannia run, i've done it too much in the past. But invading it to create a branching dynasty there sounds fun.

D) Become a Tyrant, and germanise by force. in this cas it would mean revoking all my norse culture vassals titles, to give them to Germans. That would definitly cause multiple revolt and civil wars, but help the german culture spread more rapidly. Then going back to "the question".

E) Do the same thing, but for the Norse Culture. But less realistic since my own land is already mostly german, even Sjaelland (the de Jure capital of Denmark)