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Elder Kings Expanded: Blackdrake Update

This update for Elder Kings Expanded introduces an entirely new start date set in 2E 527, centered on Durcorach’s rise from Reach chieftain to conqueror of Cyrodiil.

Durcorach’s campaign is supported by new invasion wars, story mechanics, and the Greatest of Chieftains lifestyle trait, offering two distinct paths toward conquest. The rise and fall of the Longhouse Emperors can also unfold during earlier start dates, with Durcorach emerging around his historical date to begin his conquest of the Reach.

There are four bookmark scenarios in total: Blackdrake Rising, Mountains of Strife, Shadowed Courts, and Dimming Shores. Each focuses on a different region of Tamriel during the Blackdrake Invasion. Numerous historical characters, dynasties, houses, coats of arms, nicknames, portraits, and DNA have been added to bring the period to life.

Scalecaller Peak has also been added as a new county under Plague Concocter Nathien Mortieu. Through a new decision chain, Nathien can develop a devastating plague, gain unique regiments, and eventually awaken Zaan the Scalecaller. A player can keep her as a powerful courtier or surrender everything and continue the game as Zaan herself.

The update also adds Ogre and Gremlin cultures based on Jam’s New Culture Mod, including a unique Gremlin faith and new Men-at-Arms. The Systres’ historical setup has also been restored to better reflect established lore.

While this update greatly expands the 2E 527 start date, its foundations were already present in the Elder Kings 2 files. My sincere thanks to the Elder Kings 2 team for their original groundwork. This update builds upon their work rather than creating the setting entirely from scratch.

u/Ymeidor — 1 day ago

UI in Family and Relationship isn't showing

Does anyone know how to fix this?

u/Helga786 — 3 days ago

What are the benefits of being a champion of Molag Bal?

Hear me out, I had to kill my granddaughter and the mace I was given was badass. Now I killed her because the mace was a once in a lifetime opportunity, I mean c'mon. And I know my wife Serena was perhaps violated by the guy, but c'mon the power that comes with it? Like I'm not passing up on the opportunity, now what are the benefits? Does he give me missions later on for more artifacts?

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u/Pirate_from_hell — 4 days ago

DLC question

So i just bought All under Heaven and was wondering what does it do in Elder Kings 2 exactly? the ingame description is the vanilla one....
Also while im at it is it possible to summon some kind of crisis?

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u/Kaito199 — 3 days ago

New player here, I'm confused about the Systres

Greetings everyone !

Bit of background, I have more than 700 hours on both Skyrim and Stellaris. I picked up CK3 on sale today to play my home region of Aquitaine, AGOT with my brother who loves GOT, and EK2 because I love TES.

I recently went back into ESO and decided to play the High Isle expansion, then Firesong, and right now I'm doing the epilogue quests about the Ascendant Lord. And during these hours, I fell in love with the Systres archipelago. ESO is an uneven game, but the Legacy of the Bretons was definitely made with passion.

I downloaded the mod, looked up all the possibilities (and I'm impressed, congrats to the dev team for making such an amazing job). However, when I started a game in the Systres to see how they looked, I was confused by the names, which didn't fit at all what I saw in ESO.

Then, I looked up on Reddit and saw that about eight months ago there was some changes done to the Systres. I don't have the context, so I don't understand everything. But what I gathered, I take it that the devs don't like ESO at all ? Yet the timeline chosen for EK2 is during that era ?

I know that ESO's lore can be a bit inconsistent with the main episodes, but every single mainline game has been some sort of soft reset, so I'd say they following the tradition. Is there stuff other than the Systres that is more on the realm of fan-fiction than port of official lore ?

If I want to play the High Isle I visited in ESO, do I have to use an older version of the mod, or is there a mod for the mod ?

Thank you for anyone who took the time of reading thus far, and even bigger thanks to whoever will give me some answers and context.

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EDIT: I love both Todd Howard's silly writing and Michael Kirkbride's verbose prose, I just wasn't expecting having to install a mod for a mod to get a game closer to canon content. I feel like it's Arthmoor's situation all over again.

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u/Vaniellis — 6 days ago

I wish elective kingdoms were inherited alongside the de jure capital

Finally tried to play in skyrim and everytime one of my vassal yarls die their successor ends up losing the capital and ends up ruling from somewhere else, it's so annoying

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u/Due_Title_6982 — 6 days ago

What's your preferred starting date, 440 or 450?

Beyond just the obvious pre- and post-Potentate collapse, what's your favorite differences if any, or what keeps you sticking to one over the other?

Might not be much in the grand scheme of things but I like the fun little touches like the Reachbreaker family becoming vengeful landless adventurers in 450 after their dad gets Reach'd

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u/janboruta — 7 days ago

Liege tried revoking my title for unknown reasons

I was playing as a custom mage character who started as the viscount of delodiil. Doing the usual life extension things, planning on eventually ruling cyrodiil as an immortal emperor, that sort of thing. At one point I became a necromancer because I figured it being shunned wasnt a problem, since no religion in the region listed it as a crime.

So why did the akaviri potentate try to revoke the imperial isle (which i conquered decades ago) from me? Necromancy wasnt a crime in his religion, it was only shunned. And I didnt commit any other crimes. In fact, his revocation letter didnt even list any actual reason for it other than the standard "i have come to the conclusion you are not fit to rule the imperial isle" text.

Was it a tyrannical revocation or something?

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u/Glormm — 9 days ago

Morrowind is broken. Literally.

So what's the problem here? It's normal for the great houses to come to the defense of the Tribunal Temple right? Except for the part where House Redoran and House Indoril are my tributaries- and House Redoran is an ally that I called into my side of the war, only for it to wordlessly and instantly swap to the Temple side, which I assume is scripted.

Here's the kicker- House Redoran and House Indoril aren't even Tribunal Temple anymore, I converted them both to my own religion by demanding conversions after I became their suzerain. So why are these great houses of entirely different religions, under my suzerain hand, with +100 opinion of me, one of which with an alliance with me, fighting on the enemy side against me?

I hope to god they fix Morrowind's buggy, ridiculous gang-up mechanics because no matter what you try, it's like the Temple and the Houses just get to cheat. At this rate I'm literally going to have to conquer the rest of Tamriel just to overwhelm them.

u/thefightman1 — 14 days ago

Which DLCs are worth it for this mod?

Hey everyone! I’m new to the community and planning to pick up CK3 mainly for this mod. Are there any DLCs that are especially worth getting to enhance the experience? Thanks in advance!

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u/Caradrian14 — 11 days ago

Can Pirate governments feudalize/settle?

I've expanded into a profitable tall empire and don't really need to raid anymore, and I'm sorely missing certain features like revoking titles. I swear there used to be an option for this?

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u/clandestineVexation — 11 days ago