r/crusaderkings3

So I was just chilling, doing my William the Conqueror to learn the new faith mechanics (just got the DLC on friday), doing crusades, manipulating the pope, then out of nowhere: *BOOM* "William you are not just emperor of Britannia, but also the Holy Roman Emperor now!"

Also have some mods, but nothing big, just some flavor: Magic (adds mages, witches and demons with their own lifestyle perk tree), Personal CoA option, and colorful shield lifestyle trait icons. But these don't affect too much stuff. Probably having a ton of Prestige and piety (also Sicily, Crusader Al-Sarq, Navarra and France have relatives on the throne and a few holy roman vassals I have a marriage with)

Apologies for the X logo, I didn't want to crop OPB out of the screenshot.

Also, apologies for the double post, not sure if that's an issue. My vyvanse just kicked in and I'm locked tf in

Edit: Great video on this map here, alt history hub does great stuff!

I almost spit out my drink when I encountered this guy.

Of course, I said yes

Only slightly annoying achievement was Guido one, not because it's particularly hard but it says starting as when in fact you need to do as him. I wasted quite amount of time on my first try because of this detail.

The Father, The Son and The Holy Grandson was a bit annoying too, it's super easy but it's boring to play 3 generations. Run was almost ruined when the game decided randomly to cancel the decision to not seek the Papacy and I almost got elected. Literally 1 month after I noticed and took the decision again the Pope died.

I started a run as a clerical only (so far) dynasty. My original character, shown here, made it to pope at 28 (71 now, he's been pope 43 years, and has now survived the Black Death lmao) and almost immediately made it so the clergy could marry (so my dynasty could actually... y'know... work without me being an impious adulterer). Everything was great, I had a beautiful lustful nun wife (romanced her so it was fine, got a lot of kids out of her too), but she sadly just died of old age. So then when I look around for a woman with like, high martial or something so I can invade a Byzantine kingdom (the emperor is a muslim peasant leader so I can just do a holy war) with better stats, I notice that my daughters show up as options. I didn't do anything to consanguinity laws (also avunculate? ew, I thought it was at least cousins) but I am given the option to marry her for some reason. Utterly bizarre. I won't because I'm a holy man, the holiest man in fact, but still. I think the devs messed up how clerical marriage is calculated.

I started a run where I wanted to establish a 'papal dynasty', that being a dynasty of entirely clergy. Started as a count level 18 y/o priest, snuck my way into the cardinate within 5 years, rapidly became the most holy, and was Pope by 28. Immediately forced the religion to accept clergy marriage so I could legally marry a beautiful nun. I am so very lucky I lived long enough not only for the church seperation to trigger, but also all the way to the phase where I could do something about it. This also let me become head of faith, the supreme arbiter of what is christian and what is not. Now I just need to rig the succession for my chad of a grandson so he can become pope at like, 20 or whatever (yeah, I own this system now ;). Also planning to charge into Jerusalem, of course. But first I have to make sure the Egyptian faith factions don't eat me alive.

So, I started as lowborn county tier Prince-Bishop. Since dynasty is locked behind a decision, I had to went up ranks first, while having a few out of wedlock kids, to actually continue my lineage. Here is the thing - almost nothing with that mechanic works.

1. As soon as a woman becomes pregnant, and I declare that child is mine, nothing more happens. No Adulterer or Fornicator traits. No Incestous trait too, neither for me nor the child's mother. No loss of opinion from clergy. Nothing. The only way for me to get the Fornicator is to NOT announce that it is my child during pregnancy, but rather wait for secret to be exposed later.

2. My Cardinal character can get married. WTF? My Rite clearly forbids Clerical marriage, yet I can just get married

3. I can get married regardless of Consaguinity. My daughter was just born and I can just betroh her. Even tho my faith has Avunculate Marriage. I can do it even after I Legitimize her. I can literally say "hey, I am confirming by the law that this is my daughter", and then proceed to immediately marry her.

Should it really work this way? Or is this all one giant bug?

Just look at how well his scaly face is framed