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Historical Bloodlines 867

Ever get tired of how the smaller bloodlines die out in a few generations, because AI is so random? Or you simply don't want to spend time and energy hunting down all the bloodline descendants for matrilineal marriages?

This mod solves these problems. Achievement incompatible. Ironman compatible. Save game incompatible. Can't say anything about compatibility with other mods. Can say only that it replaces a few files in the history and common folder.

This mod brings all historical bloodlines from 867 to one court ruled by High Chieftess Dana of Zemigallians from the oldest surviving dynasty in the game - Alt Clut. I did not manage to integrate all historical bloodlines in one character like I did it in my "769" mod, because there were too many bloodline founders born around the same time with too few descendants suitable for this little eugenics project. Nonetheless, I managed to minimise the number of descendants that you will have to use for your breeding programme and brought them all to one location.

There are three pairs of twins that you should pay attention to:
1. Ivar Daura and his twin sister Astrid - bastard twins of Chieftess Magajiva Daura and King Harald "Fairhair" Yngling; they are carriers of both bloodlines of their parents.
2. Farkas Arpad and his twin sister Judith - bastard twins of Arpad I. They will get the Arpad bloodline, if the Hungarians succesfully invade Bulgaria (around 868).
3. Finally, Dana Alt Clut herself and her twin brother Edgar - twins of King Dyre Oskyldr of Kiev through a matrilineal marriage. They are descendants of all the other historical bloodlines.

All six twins are attractive and strong lefthanded geniuses. Having a twin allows for more marriage combinations and some back ups in case one of the twins dies prematurely or does not produce a child of the required gender. Remember that to integrate all bloodlines into one character, you will need to use matrilineal marriages. I made the Magajiva bloodline patrilineally inheritable to prevent it from being lost by the male carriers in patrilineal marriages.

From here, you have several options:

1. Keep playing as Dana, Romuvan Lettigallian tribal High Chieftess of Zemigallians. Take Ivar Daura as your matrilineal spouse. Make Farkas Arpad the matrilineal husband of your daughter and heir (eldership succession makes it easy). Alternatively, if you fail to produce female heirs, keep breeding the Arpads for integrating in your dynasty later down the line. In this second scenario, at some point, you will have to marry your kinsman/kinswoman matrilineally - three levels of separation are usually enough to avoid inbreeding (no uncles, aunts, cousins, nephews, nieces, grandsons, granddaughters).
2. Impregnate your daughter through a console command by Edgar Alt Clut and ensure that the bastard child is legitimized and becomes your heir. Proceed to integrate the Daura and Arpad bastards, as the situation allows.
3. Ensure a matrilineal marriage between your kinswoman and Edgar and hope that it produces a heir down the line. Proceed to integrate the Daura and Arpad bastards, as the situation allows.
4. Grant the title that you actually want to start with to Dana via console and, optionally, give up the chiefdom and high chiefdom of Zemigallians. Convert to whichever religion and culture you wish. Next, do the same thing as in point 1.

Useful console commands to know (press ~ to access, press Enter to execute, press ~ again to disable the console):

- charinfo: shows the character's ID or title's ID (hover with the cursor above the character or the coat of arms respectively); type charinfo again to disable;
- give_title [title ID] [character ID] - grant the specified title to the specified character;
- imprison [character ID 1][character ID 2] - imprison the specified character 1 by the specified character 2;
- age [character ID] [age in numbers] - makes the specified character older by the specified number of years;
- pollinate [female character ID] [male character ID] - makes the specified female character pregnant by the specified male character;
- yesman - makes the AI agree to anything.

Note: the square brackets are here only for demonstration purposes - they are not used in the actual console command. One space break should be used between the phrases and numbers.

Changes made to the character history:

- Birth of Basileios I Makedon moved back to the historical 811;
- Birth of Rurik moved back to the historical 824;
- Dyre Oskyldr made to be the bastard of Rurik. I think it's not that big of a deal, because little is known about the origins of Askold and Dyr anyway. It is known that they were personally acquainted with Rurik and Helgi (a.k.a. Oleg the Wise). And, if the TV Series "The Vikings" can make Askold and Dyr brothers of Helgi, and Helgi is the bastard of Rurik in the game anyway, then I don't stray too far by making Dyre the bastard brother of Helgi.
- Magajiva bloodline is changed to patrilineal inheritance (otherwise it will get lost by the male descendants in patrilineal marriages).