Turns out that I had, somewhere along the line, captured the heir to the caliphate, completely by chance. For some reason I got a message that the caliphate had been inherited by some dude. And then I discovered that my grandson had, for some reason, been stuck in the varangian court, and I couldn't educate him until he was 11 (which was when his father died and he reverted to my court)!Īmong those that died in the plague was the sunni caliph that I had chased for about 10 years. He managed to overcome both, though, probably thanks to a loving wife.

He had served in the Varangian Guard (in whatever's left of the Byzantine Empire.) but came home with PTSD (Stressed and Depressed).

I lost my genius son to the plague, the poor guy. The constant replacing of viceroys almost gave me the Lunatic trait. Although my Fylkir, blessed by Odin, avoided that fate. Huge swathes of my dynasty fell to the plague. The Grim Reaper was well fed for a few years there. I chased the caliph from the day he was old enough to be tutored: I found the county he was being tutored in and raided it over and over. My two options are the Eucumenical Patriarch and the Sunni Caliph, as they are the only two landed heads of religion left. I still have my eye on India, but the areas that are left have become divided into two indian superpowers, so I'm waiting for the Great Holy War cooldown before going in there again.īut yeah, I was taking great huge chunks away from the Umayyads and having a blast when I got the idea to again try to capture the head of a religion. Just to pass the decades, I've been carving out chunks from the Umayyad's lands, as well as chopping up Ruthenia (which is russian and sunni!). The new features in the coming DLC look great! Diarrhea for everyone forever!

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