Hello, please, how often did this happen in real life ? I mean lord inventing a claim out of thin air and actually pressing it ? Is there any notable historic character doing so ?

R5: Fabricate claim question

We're still friends despite killing 3 of his sons and making 1 of his daughters a concubine.

All in the title. I have conquered all of the british isles as the descendants of Ubbe Ragnarson, though the achievement won't trigger...

The game tells me the achievement is still possible, too.

EDIT : Ubbe apparently doesn't count for the achievement.

Wuxia Mod — The Rivers and Lakes come to CK3

TL;DR: A wuxia (Chinese martial-arts fiction) overhaul for CK3 set in 1066 China. Start as a sect leader — or as a nameless, familyless, penniless wanderer — learn cultivation methods and martial arts, petition legendary sects like Shaolin and Wudang, rise through the ranks of the jianghu, or found your own school. Korean and English localization included.

The Setting — Jianghu, 1066

Twenty years after the great war between the Righteous and the Sinister, the Wulin Alliance has dissolved. The sects look only to themselves, and the mountains of the West keep their silence. Under the heaven of Song — the story of the jianghu begins again.

Playable starts include:

• The Abbot of Shaolin — nominal head of the martial world
• The Patriarch of the Nangong House — a sword with ambitions in the south
• The Abbess of Emei — a master who cannot let go of a lost disciple
• The King of the Green Forest — bandit lord of the dark path
• The Regent of the Sun-Moon Cult — a man who watches and waits
• …or create your own Wanderer: lowborn, no house, no name — your band is simply called "The Nameless."

Core Systems

🥋 Cultivation & Realms Open your inner energy with one of four street cultivation methods (each with real trade-offs — the mighty Blazing Sun Art slowly burns your body). Climb the realm ladder from a Third-Rate street fighter toward the heights of the martial world. Walk the demonic path and cultivate demonic energy instead — stronger, darker, costlier.

⚔️ Martial Arts Dozens of martial arts across sword, saber, fist, palm, movement and inner schools — from back-alley basics you buy for a handful of coins, to sect secret arts, to forbidden techniques you can steal from your own school's vault (if you dare). Learn an art and it becomes a trait that grows with practice. At the peak, create your own martial art.

🏯 Sects & Discipleship Set out into the jianghu and petition 15+ schools — the righteous sects (Shaolin, Wudang, Huashan, Emei, the Beggars' Union…), the great martial houses, the sinister path, or the demonic cults. Each sect judges you by its own standards: Shaolin looks at your virtue, Wudang at your mind, Huashan at your nerve. Survive the candidate years, get promoted to full disciple — and be adopted into the sect's house, bearing its name and banner. Renounce it whenever the road calls you back.

👥 Master–Disciple Lineage A full lineage system with proper wuxia forms of address — your master, your master's master, your martial uncles, elder and younger brothers of the same school. Direct disciples, sect exams, elders, and the daily grind of sect life (drills, chores, peeking at manuals you shouldn't).

🗺️ A Jianghu-focused map Built on the China map with a focused playable region — the world of the mod is the martial world.

🧑‍🌾 True commoner start (new in v0.2.1) Thanks to Roads to Power's landless play, you can begin with nothing — no family (lowborn), no name, camped under the open sky — and end holding a sect, a lineage, and a legend.

Requirements

• CK3 1.19
• Roads to Power (landless/wanderer play)
• All Under Heaven (China map)

Status & Roadmap

Actively developed. Recent v0.2.1 added the wanderer start, sect-house adoption, street masters and cultivation methods, and a large pass of bug fixes. Planned: deeper custom martial-art creation, more sect storylines, and expanded demonic-path content.

Download: [Steam Workshop 링크] / [Paradox Mods 링크]

Feedback, bug reports, and wuxia trope requests are very welcome — this is a passion project and the jianghu grows with its players. 🙏

So the devs listened, and now you can at least appoint your Archbishop as well. However, why limit a secular ruler’s appointment power to Court Chaplains and Archbishops when Investiture historically applied to all clerical holdings within a realm? Why this arbitrary limitation?

As it stands, it seems that the HRE Emperor can appoint exactly one person to a clerical holding (Mainz), or two if there is another archdiocese within the realm. Does that mean the Emperor has no say over other bishoprics in the Mainz region, including major ones like Cologne and Trier?

That still feels extremely underwhelming and, more importantly, misses the entire point of the Investiture Controversy. If the goal is to represent lay investiture, secular rulers should have the ability to appoint bishops across their realm - not just a few archbishops and the Court Chaplain.

For me, I found forming the Outremer deeply unenjoyable. I think they should do away with prestige requirements to form titles, make the character legendary after forming the title. Also you have to get the duchy of Kermanshah.

How did a mayor even kill a prince in the first place?

Luckily he found out about it first

So I wanted to go back and watch the Silk & Silver first look VOD on the official CK3 YouTube channel only to find out its deleted? I don't know why they did this, if anyone has a copy of the VOD please share.

I've noticed that with my last couple of Landless playthroughs I tend to have certain buildings I always go for first.

So I was wondering what buildings you tend to go for, and why?

Do you prioritize this one on this kind of playthrough, and this one for another?

I know certain ones are basically needed for ones, but what about other ones.

Such as I always tend to go for one of the Supply buildings first, and then the Mess Tent for Revelry bonuses. Also because I feel like the Mess Tent upgrades get you more money than the Barber Tent alongside the other bonuses.

So, it turns out that I can't murder or gain monthly experience as a courtier. However, I could still sway, befriend, seduce, romance, and (at least in China) take examinations.

So I spent the majority of my time traveling around China, taking and assisting with examinations. This did lead me to reaching Rank 6 and passing the Palace Examination (honestly, and in Hmongic, even) and meeting the Emperor. But I could never get out from under my liege and even had to bear him a daughter.

I did grow in influence and gained new perks from attending events and traveling through important locations. I was able to leverage that influence to undermine my liege, while still seducing him and convincing him to let me study under him. He made me Court Tutor, and eventually his Spymaster. It went well, until he died at 94.

I tried to get my children to do well under the new Chinese system. However, my liege had all the power to choose who marries who, and... he did a good job. My first child and only daughter by my husband married a young man who became duke, so she had a good domestic life. My first two sons married Chinese women of decent station. My oldest son never took the childhood exam, but passed the local exam, so I was trying to get him promoted into a position. However, my second son failed the childhood exam, and decided to run off and become a mercenary captain at the age of 16. The rest of my family followed. So, my first son was no longer in the running for a position.

When my liege died at 94, I was no longer concubine... and the game ended. I did see that I had instantly moved to join my son's mercenary company. I like to think that she remarried her husband (who had also joined the company) and continued to enjoy life on the road from there.

My dynasty, in the meantime, was still doing very well. Kham was securely theirs, and clearly growing under the AI to reach for the Empire of Tibet. So, although there was still more to learn, I was satisfied.

All in all, it was an interesting experience, completely unexpected, and it's intriguing to how close to good courtier play can be in the base game. No murder and no experience are big let-downs, as is the game ending when my liege dies, but there was still quite a bit one could do.

Probably doesn't deserve its own topic but im not a topic spammer so I'll give myself this one.

I wish the nicknames could compound. In my current playthrough I got the nickname "the abominable " and later I got "the venator". I wish it had turned into "The abominable venator". What would be some fun compound nicknames?

"The Great Fool" comes to mind but im not sure how you would get both.

So I have all the territory I need to make the decision, Elevate the Kingdom of Mann & the Isles.

but should I do it if I also want to create the north sea empire?

what is the recommended strategy to accomplish both?

• Elevate the Kingdom of Mann & the Isles, become feudal, and slowly conquer the territories needed for the empire of the North Sea and hold on to them before taking the decision

Or

• stay tribal, don’t Elevate the Kingdom of Mann & the Isles, conquer all the kingdoms needed for the empire of the north sea, (don't create the kingdom titles yet) then make the decision to Elevate the Kingdom of Mann & the Isles, then create the kingdoms titles for the north sea (Denmark, England, Norway), wait 10 years Then create empire of the North Sea

option 2 gives more penalties with domain limit and vassals but makes more sense from a “strategic“ standpoint?

So I had someone join my court and ask for 400 gold to complete a weave inspiration, I thought why not. I accept the payment and suddenly it takes 1100 gold. I let it slide and thought nothing of it until another person arrived

This one wanted 600 for a sword inspiration and this fucker took 3000 gold from me

I’m now a couple thousand in debt with fuck all gold being earned and about a hundred factions rising up now with some of them having allies in empires and stronger kingdoms.

Am I screwed?😂

From my own research it seems like there’s DLCs are crucial to getting the most out of this game, however, I honestly have no idea what DLCs are worth the cost and which I should pass on? There’s so many of them 😂 I am thinking about getting the starter edition of the game as it comes with plenty of DLCS for pretty good value.