3? sex-related deaths, two childbirth related and one Great Pox (and it was really the treatment, not the actually disease, that killed her in the end) Most of the time they are brought low by normal things -war, pandemics, assassinations, poor health- and often live long, full lives.

Dobrava and Matilda are two of my favorite starts, and after about a dozen or so with both in the last few months, even with those times I had Matilda going seduction and sleeping with everyone in the Holy Roman Empire (plus the pope) I've had maybe. Well, except for Blackbird, but he'll be dead by then.Īs for the death by childbirth, that sounds like bad luck. Give him the ultimatum, win the war, and then imprison him tyranny-free (either by good luck or the following war against tyranny) Then, Worship your ancestors and choose the human sacrifice option as long as he's you're only prisoner, he will be the one sacrificed, and noone will care one wit about the whole thing. Then, plot to revoke one of the counties Grey Eminence makes it hard to find fellow conspirators, true, but you should have one in the priest, who will almost certainly be part of his council and therefore a massive boost to plot power. a-d all from Germanic bergaz, hill, mountain. Then, give Blackbird two counties, one of which includes the temple of your new friend/lover. blade, from Old English bld, leaf, blade, from Germanic bladaz.

First, seduce or befriend one of your temple vassals.

If you are truly worried about approval or him running, there is a step-by-step process of fixing that. Barring random events that made me friends or lovers with them, never had any first-gen vassal have an approval higher than -60, and that was often only until the bonus from subjugation wore off. An extra -20 to -100 isn't going to matter much. Click to expand.Most of your vassals those first twenty years or so will hate you anyway, from usurping their title from the subjugation war.

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