![]() On the other hand, some characters can last years in there, despite your attempt to dispose of them without killing them. You know you will be suffering a Fate Worse than Death, and that it will kill you in a few months if you don't get rescued or ransomed. If your character already had syphilis, then the option to take care of your now sick wife reads: "Oh God, did I do this to her?" One of the options is to assume she got it from adultery and to imprison her for it (less reasonable in this game as syphilis is an airborne disease in addition to being an STD), another is to try and take care of her. There is one event where your wife catches syphilis.In large epidemics, you will even see piles of corpses on afflicted counties. Hospitals can help somewhat, but even a fully upgraded hospital is no guarantee of survival. It spreads across Europe, regularly killing those it comes across. Disease is a real horror in this game.Every time the Aztecs capture a major European City, they perform a massive human sacrifice of the civilians.The Karling Line is extinct by 1100, and even in games starting in the earliest bookmark the bloodline of Charlemagne and Charles Martel tend to go extinct on its own. The last prince of the Merovingian Dynasty is a monk and the line of Clovis will die with him if you don't intervene by pressing his claim. In the game there are several families that you get to watch die out without player intervention.It can be especially horrible if your baby dies in the oubliette, is sacrificed by pagans, or is killed during torture. Whether by disease, imprisonment, murderous peasant rebels, assassination, suicide, or accident. Parents in CKII often outlive their children.Your second husband won't believe that you got pregnant before marrying him, and he hates you for a decade. If you are a female ruler, then it counts as adultery if you find out about your first husband impregnating you after you already remarried.You might start to wonder if your children are even really yours. It is always heartbreaking when you discover that your spouse has cheated on you, and morose if you tried to make the relationship work and make your spouse love you.Imagine being a physician trying desperately to save the life of someone you respect, someone who might even be a close friend or lover, and not only do you fail but you are blamed for it and killed. A court physician can be executed for botching a treatment, even if he did his best.It only ends either when you have revoked all the titles and handed them back to new vassals, or when your family has been driven out of court. This can escalate to the point where your dynasty becomes permanently hated with no way to win back the trust of your vassals they form factions to wipe out your family, making it necessary to crush their rebellions, making them hate you more. New rulers get an opinion penalty if their predecessor is unpopular, so a ruler can start out being hated by his vassals without having done anything bad himself.It is possible for a twenty year old King with depression to go to sleep one night and never wake up again. Even if a character doesn't commit suicide, depression can still stop his heart.Holy Fury added an event where an older ruler returning from a particularly bloody Crusade can suffer from crippling Survivor's Guilt and one of the options is a heartbreaking option to kill oneself as if to expiate their sacrifice.They're always disappointed, and often the attempt leaves lasting harm to their body. ![]()
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