There Will Be War: The Poison War

June 12th, 1315
Ask’s estate
The Norse Law, south of York
“Hassan, a word with you.”
The Assassin straightened from where he was showing his son how to string a bow. His name was actually Massoud, and if Ask had wanted to discuss some detail of the running of the village, he would have used that name. “Hassan” [...]

There Will Be War: The Billung Vendetta

Today we had several incidents of interest, which I relate OOC for easier understanding of the IC explanation later. First, note that the major powers are colluding to keep the Pope homeless, by attacking and annexing him wherever he pops up. As it happens, my son Guttorm was an extremely pious sort, and managed to [...]

There Will Be War: Big Picture

It may perhaps be worth recapping a little bit of diplomatic history at this point. The fifty-year Cold War between the Holy Roman Empire (Italy, Bohemia, Germany, Arabia, and briefly England before its final collapse) and the Roman Commonwealth (Georgia, Russia, Byzantium, Brittany, Serbia until its attempted betrayal and resulting annexation, England before it switched [...]

There Will Be War: Ask and you shall Receive, pt III

August 27th, 1294
Gora Dzhimara
Alania Province, Georgia
Ask blinked, more slowly than he was used to. The wine the monks had given him had been laced with something; marijuana, perhaps? Whatever it was, he ought to see if it could be imported to Norway; he felt calm and relaxed, and the sight of the stone – coffin? [...]

There Will Be War: Ask and you shall Receive, pt II

May 12th, 1294
Glory-of-the-Heavens Monastery
Derbent province, Georgia
The abbot’s office, unlike the others Ask had visited, was plain, almost shabby, except for the large golden crucifix on the wall and the well-worn praying mat beneath it. The abbot himself was a little man, thin in an ascetic fashion, with piercing gray eyes; he said nothing as Ask [...]

There Will Be War: Ask, and you shall Receive

Ask has travelled to Georgia, as he decided at the end of the last update; he has found much to mystify and little of value; he begins, now, the arc that will make Norway hated in all the world.

There Will Be War: Democracy and Disaster

Events finally forced me away from the Royal Prerogative law I had been running, and rather than continue with Feudal Contract – which I dislike, although in game terms it is probably the best law due to the vassal loyalty boost – I switched to Popular Law. Not every Yngling approves.
At this point our [...]

There Will Be War: Protest

I wasn’t the only one doing spreading of culture, of course. Germany, in particular, had settled huge amounts of his own people in what I continued to refer to as Occupied Denmark. While culture is not hugely important in Crusader Kings, it would have a large impact on revenue and revolt risk when we converted [...]

There Will Be War: Player Roster

At this point the Holy Roman Empire collapsed. The Bohemian player had been negotiating to switch sides to the Roman Commonwealth, and was found out; the Italian and formerly-Prussian, now-German (a newly-acquired title) players, annoyed, negotiated an end to the cold war by agreeing to give up land, taking compensation out of Bohemia’s domains. The [...]

There Will Be War: Geir the Settler

I was working hard, at this time, to spread Norwegian settlements into England. Herewith a story of how that could happen. The England mentioned here is the former kingdom of France; the player traded a large amount of French lands to Brittany, in exchange for that nation’s English domains, retaining only Flanders of his continental [...]