Væringjar

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Author: ᛞᛖᛞ : ᛈᛁᚺᛏᛟ

Last revision: 5 Jul, 2025 at 03:30 UTC

File size: 19.81 MB

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Description:
Alternative history

Conquer Constantinople, Jerusalem and Rome.
Cancel Pope, get rid your lands of christians.
Recreate the Roman Empire under the rule of pagan Norsemen!

Start as young jarl close to Constantinople and make a noise in the old world.

Bookmark

Added new bookmark: Ozrik, jarl of Crimea (and his wife Runa). Adventurers tab, year 867.

Religion

Added new faith "Midgard" under Norse religion. Almost the same as Asatru, but other holy sites.

Culture

Added new culture "Varangians" with north germanic heritage and names. Has its own royal court, language.

Government

Added new government "Autocracy". The same as Feudal, but:

  • You can build estate.
  • Some changes in vassal contracts.
  • Automatically learn primogeniture on accept and makes it the only succession.

Character interactions

Added new item "Varangian witchcraft" to menu when you right click on any character (even yourself). Depending on character it has different options. Here is full list:

  • Terminate pregnancy
  • Impose childfree (makes infertile)
  • Get rid of childfree
  • Bless war (restores the ability to declare wars during life)
  • Abolish the republic (change Republic to Feudal, if you have no Autocracy)
  • Impose autocracy
  • Impose divorce
  • Discourage lovers
  • Heal
  • Forget claims
  • Correct sexuality (makes heterosexual)
  • Conceive a child from husband (makes pregnant from her husband)
  • Child gender: boy
  • Child gender: girl
  • Inspire sympathy towards me (+100)
  • Inspire hostility towards me (-100)
  • Ennoble (makes lowborn head of his house)

Buildings

Added new buildings for germanic religions:

  • Temple of Odin (Miklagard) – via decision
  • Temple of Freyja (Jorsala) – via decision
  • Mimir’s university (Cairo)
  • Tyr’s spetsnaz school (Tunis)

Other changes
  • You can restore Roman Empire even if you’re pagan norseman
  • You can forge Jomsvikings even if your faith was reformed. Removed 1066 deadline.
  • Added new holy order "Varangian Spetsnaz" (located near Miklagard, inspired by Jomsvikings)
  • Added norse cultural names: Miklagard (Constantinople), Jorsala (Jerusalem)
  • Rearranged Byzantine and Italian lands, excluded Sicily from Baleo-Tyrrhenia
  • You can create kingdoms in simple way, without decision: Canarian, Naples, Pisa, Genoa and Palestine (with Lebanon and Antioch included)

Localization

Russian and English. The rest game languages are duplicated English. If you want this mod in your language, send me proper translation, I don’t trust Google translator.

Disclaimer

I have made this mod for my own role play, cheating some game rules. Perhaps someone might like it so I published it in Steam. It might offend someone’s feelings. If so, I don’t care anyone’s opinion, but you can leave a comment anyway.