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While the imperial surgeons in Lycaron labor in total silence to pull Empress Ira back from the brink of death after the assassination attempt, the Senate moves to seize her crown.

Archon Phadon, long the Empress's most venomous political rival in the capital, believed the throne was ripe for the taking. As the grandson of Emperor Neretzes, he viewed the imperial seat as his birthright, desperate to restore the authority of the noble oligarchy, and erase the humiliating disaster at the Battle of Pendraic that had stripped House Neretzes of the crown. He moved into the grand hall with purse-strings open, attempting to buy the palatine guards on the spot. Phadon assumed there was no one left to stop him. Ira's husband, Emperor Jon, and their son and heir, Prince Arenicos, are both trapped fighting a brutal proxy war in the frozen North, their fates completely unknown.

He failed to account for Princess Rhamira, Ira’s daughter. Standing third in line to the throne, Princess Rhamira had been dismissed by the patricians as a harmless child. But as Phadon handed out bribes, Princess Rhamira entered the hall flanked by loyalists. Seeing the treason unfolding before her, she climbed the dais and sat the throne. By Princess Rhamira's direct decree, Phadon was stripped of his authority and confined to his quarters under house arrest.

Down in the city streets, blood still darkens the paving stones where Empress Ira and her companion Alena were ambushed. Adinea the Black, the premier operative of the crown's shadow network, returned to the scene to hunt for answers. A hooded cleaner attempted to lunge at her from the dark, but Adinea put a dagger through his throat first. In his pockets, she discovered heavy gold coins stamped with the mark of House Neretzes, confirming Phadon’s hand in the attack on the Empress.

Adinea brought the coins straight to Princess Rhamira. Armed with concrete proof of the Neretzes plot, Rhamira wasted no time, stripping Phadon of his comforts and ordering him dragged from house arrest directly into the deep dungeons beneath the keep.

Next, Adinea sought out her superior, Lord Yaqus, the ex-Aserai now-Imperial Master of Whisperers trusted by Empress Ira for his vast connections. Presented with the gold, Yaqus offered only a cold dismissal. Adinea knew her mentor too well- a master spy never ignores a bloody trail. The sickening realization set in that the man who trained her was part of the conspiracy. His only response was a low, chilling warning for her to stand down and let the tide take its course.

The Master of Whisperers has turned traitor. Phadon sits caged in the black cells. And in the quiet palace chambers above, Empress Ira is about to awaken to a court built on lies.

The political crisis in Lycaron has erupted into chaos and catastrophe. Facing military collapse on the borders, Empress Ira bypassed centuries of law to declare Emergency War Powers, seizing direct control over noble tax revenues and conscription, bypassing the Senate entirely. Enraged by their lost authority, Lord Phadon and his Senate allies led the charge against Ira, and publicly whipped the capital into a frenzy. Behind the scenes, that anger was weaponized. Hired killers were paid to blend into the manufactured civil unrest, waiting to execute the Empress and clear the throne for a Senate coup. Today, that trap closed.

Earlier today, Empress Ira attempted a quiet walk along the high ramparts alongside her best friend and closest advisor, Alena, escorted only by a skeletal guard detail. As the party descended into the lower district, they were boxed in by what appeared to be an enraged mob.

The riot proved to be a cold, coordinated hit. Pulling hidden blades, the mob surged forward, swarming and slaughtering the guards in seconds.

The Empress did not yield quietly. Drawing a hidden dagger, Ira lunged into the fray and gutted two attackers on the spot. Realizing they were defenseless, Alena grabbed Ira, desperately trying to drag the Empress back toward the safety of the keep.

The escape ended in horror. An assassin's blade caught Alena, cutting her down instantly. As Alena fell, the mob overwhelmed the Empress, stabbing Ira repeatedly before she collapsed.

The alleyway is left dead silent, littered with the bodies of fallen guards and dead assailants. Empress Ira and her advisor lie bleeding side by side on the cold pavement.

With the Empress cut down in her own capital, total chaos has broken out across Lycaron! More updates to follow as the situation develops!

The Fall of Robert Stark:

To understand the war Prince Arenicos, the Rogue Prince and the son and heir of Jon and Ira, is riding into on the Northern front in my previous post, you have to look at the family fracture that broke the realm in two. This is the story of how Robert Stark fell from a hotheaded Sturgian hero to a Khuzait warlord, setting the stage for the invasion Rickon, Arenicos, and Jon must contain.

1. The Bloodline and Succession
The First Generation: The Stark siblings (Robb, Jon, Bran, and Arya) forged the modern realm. Robb died a martyr during the 1080s Sturgian Civil War, rebelling against Grand Prince Raganvad for his role in their parents' mysterious deaths. Robb's brother Jon now rules as Emperor alongside his wife, Empress Ira, at the helm of the United Empire.

The Mother: During that civil war, Robb fell in love with Mela, an ex-Khuzait healer who defected to join the Northern cause. Mela is still alive today, and before Robb’s murder she and Robb had two sons, Rickon and Robert. However, Mela's Khuzait heritage and her sons’ status as half-Khuzait cast a constant, lingering shadow over both brothers.

The Succession and Grooming: When Uncle Bran abdicated as Warden of the North in 1106, he passed the title directly to Robb’s eldest son, Rickon. Beyond just being passed over, Robert had spent years watching Rickon receive far more attention, grooming, and training to rule from Bran, Mela, and Jon, planting deep seeds of resentment.

2. Sturgian Prejudice and the Young Wolves
Twenty years prior, Monchug led a devastating Khuzait invasion through Sturgia that ended at the historic battle of Sibir, forever remembered across the realm as The Long Night. During that legendary siege, Jon and Ira, Ice and Fire, united the fractured forces to defeat Monchug's great evil, ending in Ira personally stabbing and killing the Khan amid his duel with Jon.

Because Rickon and Robert are half-Khuzait through their mother Mela, local Sturgian lords and commoners always viewed the brothers with open suspicion and prejudice due to the lingering scars of that war. Robert was notoriously hotheaded and rebellious, violently pushing back against the bigotry rather than ignoring it. On one infamous occasion, Robert literally punched a Sturgian Knyaz in the face for hurling racial insults, forcing a tense Rickon to constantly step in and scold his younger brother to keep the peace. Despite this friction, the brothers fought at the front of the Northern armies wearing matching wolf-head furs, earning renown across the realm as the Young Wolves.

3. The Ambush at the Village
In 1108, during a campaign to defend Sturgian lands, a Khuzait raiding party under Tulag Beg attacked a local village. The Young Wolves rode out to stop the massacre, but the battle turned catastrophic. Robert was stabbed and cut down directly in front of Rickon. Believing his brother was dead and facing total encirclement, a devastated Rickon was forced to order a retreat, leaving Robert's body behind in the snow.

4. Imprisonment in Makeb
Robert survived the blade. Tulag's men dragged his broken body from the field, and Khuzait healers managed to keep him alive. He was taken in chains to a dark dungeon in Makeb.

Isolated in a cell, Robert's mind began to unravel. Bortu Khan, driven by a deep desire to avenge his father Monchug's death at Ira's hands during The Long Night and completely crush the Stark clan and the United Empire, personally spoke with his new valuable prisoner Robert.

Bortu validated every grievance Robert had ever harbored, confirming that the Sturgians were fundamentally racist, hated him for his half-Khuzait blood, and would never truly accept him as one of their own no matter how many battles he won. To fill the void left by his isolation and family's favoritism, Bortu offered what the Sturgians denied: a path to his Khuzait family, heritage, culture, and lands.

5. The Defection and Invasion
Seduced by the promise of belonging and manipulated by Bortu's burning hatred for the Empire, Robert bent the knee.

To strike a devastating psychological blow against the United Empire and complete his revenge, Bortu placed Robert in command of the new northern Khuzait invasion force. He paired Robert directly with his biological uncle, the veteran Khuzait warlord Altu, who is Mela's brother. Robert shed his wolf-head furs for Khuzait silks and armor, marching back to Sturgia as a conquering warlord intent on destroying his own bloodline.

When Tyal fell, it was a warning. When Sibir collapsed, the northern territory of the United Empire was pushed to the edge of total defeat.

In the capital of Lycaron, Empress Ira fought the Senate for immediate military intervention. Losing the Sturgian North to a Khuzait invasion would prove the United Empire is weak and vulnerable. Beyond saving the realm, her husband, Emperor Jon, was already stuck in the deep snow fighting alongside his nephew Rickon "the Young Wolf”. As Warden of the North and son of Jon's late brother Robb Stark, Rickon was holding the frontline to keep the Empire whole. Trapped in the wilderness after Sibir fell, both leaders were facing annihilation.

Despite Ira's fierce push, the paranoid Senate voted against sending imperial troops.

That political refusal forced a dangerous choice for Prince Arenicos, the son of Ira and Jon. As heir to the crown of the United Empire, raising an army without Senate approval is an act of high treason that risks civil war. Ira explicitly forbade Arenicos from leaving Lycaron or amassing an army.

Arenicos chose his family and the Empire's honor over politics. The Rogue Prince commandeered four full Imperial legions and marched straight into a Sturgian blizzard. Heavy Cataphracts pushed through freezing mud to reach the first massive field battle after the fall of Sibir.

They crested the ridge right as Jon and the Young Wolf were about to be overrun by Khuzait horse archers. Imperial war horns echoed through the pass, and gilded cavalry smashed the enemy flank like an avalanche.

The heir to the throne is now a rogue commander in open defiance of the Senate, but the North holds. Sibir has fallen, but tonight the campfires burn bright for the Prince who risked the crown to save his realm.

As the second-in-line to the throne of the United Calradian Empire, young Princess Rhamira is celebrated across the provinces for her beauty, grace, and warmth toward the common folk, earning her the moniker "The Realm’s Delight”. Standing behind Prince Arenicos in the imperial succession under her mother Empress Ira, she moves through Lycaron as the beloved public face of the dynasty, using her widespread popularity and sharp mind to navigate the complex rivalries of the imperial court.

Grand Scholar Eronys rushed into the throne room to report that Bortu Khan has crossed the border with a massive army, marching into the imperial heartlands.

Realizing Monchug's son has finally returned to avenge his father, Empress Ira was struck with terror. The true war for the fate of Calradia has begun.

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Following up on my last post about the Empire's “rightful” succession, thought I’d share how the succession situation actually played out in my save, how Ira and her husband came to rule, and how Rhagaea became remembered as the “Mad Queen”.

Rhagaea orchestrated the marriage between Ira and my character, the "King in the North" Jon Snow of the Stark clan, to secure the Sturgian armies and finally find her daughter a suitable match, but it marked the beginning of her undoing.

When Monchug’s Khuzait horde threatened to destroy Sturgia on its mission to conquer the entire continent, Ira marched her legions north to join her husband at the legendary Battle of Sibir- a brutal "Long Night" slaughter where they barely held the line, and by a miracle killed Monchug and broke the horde.

Just before the battle, Jon’s brother Bran revealed in a vision that Jon was never a bastard, but the secret, legitimate son of Emperor Arenicos and Lyanna Stark, true birth name Arenicos II.

Jon broke the news to Ira after the battle. While the revelation disgusted them, they realized their combined lineage provided an unbeatable claim to the Imperial throne, and a potential end to the civil war.

When word leaked, Rhagaea’s paranoia spiraled into madness. She declared them traitors and declared war on Sturgia, viewing Ira and Jon as usurpers rather than family.

With Lucon dead of old age and the Northern Empire fractured into bickering clans, Rhagaea turned her focus to Garios and Ira. Paranoia consumed her as she felt conspirators were hiding behind every curtain in the palace, and that her own daughter was coming to take her throne. Rhagaea abandoned governing for "The Purge”, executing anyone suspected of supporting the other claimants.

When Ira and Jon finally marched on Lycaron to end the madness, Rhagaea refused to surrender. She ordered the capital set ablaze to deny them a throne, and although the city was eventually taken, the arsonists succeeded in reducing large sections of Lycaron to ruin.

Ira’s forces breached the palace where a defeated Rhagaea was cornered. The Mad Queen was thrown into the dungeons beneath the palace.

Facing the reality that the civil war would never end while her mother lived, Ira made the difficult choice to put her own mother on trial, sentence her to death, and swing the axe. With Rhagaea dead, the ashes of the civil war gave way to a new order for the Empire: a diarchy.

Jon and Ira, Ice and Fire, established a co-monarchy, ruling as Emperor and Empress from the scorched remains of Lycaron as the only two people with a legitimate claim to the Arenicos line of the throne, beginning the long road to Imperial Restoration and Reunification.

(Context: My main save is just adding the Stark clan to Sturgia and playing as Jon going from bastard soldier to Lord to Grand Prince of Sturgia to Emperor of Calradia. And Ira became a sort-of-Daenerys, but it works for her tbh. Had a lot of fun throwing the Starks into Calradia)

If the Senate just crowned Ira the moment Arenicos was murdered (totally not by Rhagaea😉) at Lycaron, the whole Calradian civil war and the entire game premise would have never happened.

By law, she is the clear heir. It is hard to blame the lords though, it’s tough to rally behind a leader who spends nearly every waking hour in the tavern buying her bros rounds of ale.

Is Rhagaea just a power-hungry widow? Should the tavern queen Ira take her throne? Or is Rhagaea and her Simpire is the only reason Calradia has not completely imploded yet?

Edit: Clear heir as in clearly the de facto heir Arenicos intended and groomed for rule. If he didn’t hesitate in officially naming her, and if the senate had actually then voted in her favor, there would be no succession crisis and the civil war would never have happened. Instead the widow rules the dynastic faction of the empire now? Ira should at least rule the southern empire at the start of the game based on Rhagaea’s own logic.

In 1102, the United Empire celebrated its Decennial. Emperor Arenicos II (formerly Jon Snow) and Empress Ira led a procession from the village of Canterion into the capital of Lycaron. The celebration featured a grand tournament to show the realm's strength, and the couple officially named their ten-year-old son, Arenicos III, as heir.

The nobility gathered in force, including the Warden of the North, Bran Stark. This marked the first reunion in years between Bran and the Emperor. Though blood cousins, the two were raised as brothers and took time during the feast to speak privately about the crushing weight of rule and the dangers lurking beyond the steppe.

Yet, the splendor hid a grim reality. To pay for massive war debts from the Western Empire, Battanian, and Vlandian conflicts, the throne had borrowed heavily from Sultan Unqid of the Aserai. This heavy reliance on the southern desert lords cast a dark shadow over the Empire's future.

Previous- https://www.reddit.com/r/Bannerlord/s/1yFhaOa2e8

The war began in the spring of 1099 after the Vlandian Baron Servic was slain during a rash cavalry charge, shattering the fragile border peace. For two years, the conflict saw no grand conquests, but rather a bitter series of trade blockades, field skirmishes, and fights over minor border castles. The Imperial legions easily overpowered and outnumbered the Vlandians in the field, yet Emperor Arenicos II held his forces back, having no desire to march deep into Vlandia only to rule over a perpetually rebellious people.

The decisive blow was struck at the Battle of Pen Cannoc Bridge. King Morcon marched his army to seize the recently conquered Battanian city of Pen Cannoc, but Emperor Arenicos and Empress Ira personally led the Imperial defense. The legionaries held the narrow river crossing against relentless Vlandian assaults until the attackers finally broke and retreated.

Defeated and exhausted, the Vlandians sought an end to the fighting. In 1101, King Morcon and Emperor Arenicos II met in the city of Pravend to sign the Accord of the Twin Crowns. The treaty formally ended the war, reopened the trade roads, and secured the Empire's new western borders.

Hey everyone! Just wanted to post a quick follow-up to my previous thread regarding finding the Imperial crown on console.
Thanks for all the advice in the comments! I finally managed to secure the bag. Turns out it's actually called an Imperial Jeweled Band. I had luck marrying a family member to an Imperial noble lady and taking it from her inventory.
Empress Ira looks fantastic in it. Appreciate the help, everyone!

The villa is officially set! Here are the four pairs starting their journey to find love:

Don Lothario & Nina Caliente

Marcus Flex & Penny Pizzazz

Akira Kibo & Dina Caliente

Lou Howell & Summer Holiday

Vote for your favorites in the comments below by upvoting or downvoting each couple's thread. Choose wisely, as the least popular couples will be up for elimination!

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Take a look at your starting eight islanders as they prepare to enter the villa.

Akira Kibo
Age: Young Adult
Job: Tech Guru
From: San Myshuno

Don Lothario
Age: Young Adult
Job: Unemployed
From: Oasis Springs

Dina Caliente
Age: Young Adult
Job: Unemployed
From: Oasis Springs

Marcus Flex
Age: Adult
Job: Personal Trainer
From: Windenburg

Summer Holiday
Age: Young Adult
Job: Chef
From: Willow Creek

Nina Caliente
Age: Young Adult
Job: Unemployed
From: Oasis Springs

Penny Pizzazz
Age: Young Adult
Job: Social Media
From: San Myshuno

Lou Howell
Age: Young Adult
Job: Artist
From: Moonwood Mill

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Bella Goth — Agent Goth: As the matriarch of the Goth estate, she hides in plain sight, leveraging the influence and resources of her family legacy. A veteran of the highest echelon of the Secret Agent career, she serves as the team’s tactical commander. She orchestrates global operations with a detached, clinical efficiency that ensures total operational security, treating hero work with the same precision used to manage her household.

Calvin Kenton — SuperSim: Calvin Kenton is a reporter for the San Myshuno Times by day, but as SuperSim, he is the Syndicate’s solar-charged powerhouse. A refugee from a doomed Sixam moon raised on a Strangerville farm, he commands the skies and unleashes focused energy blasts to defend the city. He is the only thing standing between the innocent and Malcolm Landgraab, the petty, megalomaniacal CEO of Landgraab Industries. Backed by his father's Presidency and infinite wealth, Malcolm is obsessed with systematically dismantling SuperSim, viewing the hero’s existence as the only obstacle to his total control.

Arthur Pringle — Chicken Man: San Myshuno's friendly neighborhood hero. A catastrophic lab failure during an internship in Strangerville left him with "Avian Instinct”, a hyper-sensory sixth sense that lets him dodge trouble before it arrives. He donned the Chicken Man identity to protect the city on his own terms, before Llama Man took notice of his potential. After being brought on as a sidekick, he now serves as the Syndicate's eyes and ears. He is nimble, quippy, and the first one to duck when the city's next crisis hits.

Paul Smith — Pol. Tech 9 Smith: A former Pollination Technician from Sixam who crash-landed in Strangerville. After defecting from his mission to spread alien genetics, he settled into a domestic life with Jenny Smith and their children, Johnny and Jill. He balances family life with his role as the team’s lead engineer, reverse-engineering Sixam tech to provide the Syndicate with advanced, specialized weaponry.

Greggorius Lunvik — Greg: The reclusive Alpha werewolf of Moonwood Mill. In his human form, he is a highly intelligent, well-read scholar. However, he lives in constant fear of his volatile werewolf transformation, struggling to contain the feral rage that threatens to consume his humanity. When the Syndicate requires raw physical force, he acts as the team’s ultimate muscle and their most effective deterrent against vampire incursions.

Hanae Tanaka — Unicorn Girl: A former trendsetting San Myshuno socialite. Her life changed after an accidental encounter with a unicorn on the slopes of Mt. Komorebi. Now a conduit for arcane energy, she projects indestructible deflection shields and fires radiant light blasts. She specializes in neutralizing metaphysical anomalies, using her powers to dismantle threats that defy modern science.

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Nalani Mahi'ai — Aquawoman: The sovereign Queen of the Mermaids and protector of Sulani. Wielding the legendary Deep Sea Conch, she commands the tides, weather, and aquatic life- from dolphins to sharks to creatures from the abyss- at will. Her siren songs can mesmerize foes, while her hydro-physiology grants her near-limitless stamina and regenerative power. As the Syndicate's maritime authority, she is a vigilant guardian, dedicated to protecting the world’s natural balance.

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The annexation of Battania effectively removed the regional buffer zone, drawing Vlandia into direct conflict with the United Empire. On Spring 15, 1099, in the first major engagement, Baron Servic commanded a heavy cavalry charge against the Imperial Cataphract vanguard. The Baron fell in the ensuing melee, struck down by the Emperor himself, marking the formal collapse of the ceasefire and the beginning of the Imperial-Vlandian War.

Trying to complete my Empress Ira outfit. Does anyone know if the Jeweled Imperial Crown (like the one Rhagaea wears) is obtainable in the vanilla game?
If so, how were you able to obtain it? Tournaments? High prosperity cities? Marriage?
EDIT: I’m playing vanilla base game on console (Xbox). No mods or PC cheats.