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Historical Bloodlines 1337

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 folder.

All historical bloodlines in one character from the oldest surviving dynasty in the game - Alt Clut.
The character - High Chief Edgar of Zemigallians, Chief of Deltuva, vassal of the Lithuanian king, has all the best congenital traits: genius, strong and attractive, as well as left-handed, which provides a personal combat bonus. He also has a claim for the county of Zemgale to reclaim his ancestral seat.

Timurid bloodline is left out, because it is created 13 years after the start of this bookmark and is event-dependent.
True Matilda's bloodline is also left out, because it can be created only by a decision in the previous major bookmark (1066), if playing as Matilda di Canossa.

From here, you have several options:

1. Keep playing as Edgar, Romuvan Lettigallian High Chief of Zemigallians.
2. Impregnate your daughter through a console command by Edgar and ensure that the bastard child is legitimized and becomes your heir.
3. Ensure a matrilineal marriage between your kinswoman and Edgar and hope that it produces a heir down the line.
4. Grant the title that you actually want to start with to Edgar via console and, optionally, give up the original titles. Convert to whichever religion and culture you wish.

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 and Arwa's bloodlines are changed to patrilineal inheritance (otherwise they would get lost by male descendants in patrilineal marriages);
- Bastard inheritance enabled for all bloodlines, all bloodlines are always active;
- Duke Boleslav Premyslid's marriage moved forward to somewhat more historical 935, which would allow for some premarital affairs resulting in fictional descendants that made this mod possible;
- Otto the Great's bloodline made active for all religions.

NB! Chola and Ghaznavid bloodlines couldn't be passed down past William the Conqueror's fictional daughter for some reason (although there was no such problem in the mod for 1066 bookmark). A workaround was implemented, and the final character still gets those bloodlines. But that's just something to keep in mind, if you decide to edit my mod.