Old Valyria
None of the art is by me. If anyone wants to be credited or wants to know where something’s from, let me know and I will add it.
Has two bookmarks, one for each start. It’s the same starting location but set in separate “eras”. It’s possible to turn off my custom game rule so the British Isles stay in their default state, although I haven’t tested that for a while so not sure how well it works.
In this 867 bookmark you start as Aegon Targaryen just before the conquest. You’re the Lord of Dragonstone and next to you are 7 independent kingdoms for you to conquer.
In this 1066 bookmark you start as Rhaenyra Targaryen just as the war over the succession is about to begin, fought between Rhaenyra and her half-brother Aegon II. (Doesn’t have as many flavour events and stuff as the Conquest just yet).
- Three islands added to the south-east of England: Dragonstone, Driftmark, and Claw Isle.
- Twelve little islands added around the Isle of Man: together they make up the Kingdom of the Iron Islands (this includes the Isle of Man which has been slightly mutilated to fit into the pattern).
- With the help of two events (one for each bookmark), when the game starts the British Isles are repainted and remodeled to resemble Westeros and the seven kingdoms. To go with the map painting I’ve also added characters, cultures, faiths, titles, etc, that you would expect to find in the respective “eras”.
Separate culture for the respective kingdom (+valyrian)
Valyrian, Westerman, Northman, Reachman, Valeman, Riverlander, Stormlander, Dornish, Ironborn, Crownlander
The typical westerosi religions (+valyrian)
Valyrian, Faith of the Seven, the Old Gods, Drowned God
They all have custom unreformed and reformed icons and individual tenets etc.
867 – Aegon’s Conquest
- The initial decision is just called “Conquer the Seven Kingdoms”. Basically you press it then you unlock a custom CB called Dragon Conquest, at which point you start conquering the 7 kingdoms.
- There’s an event for each kingdom (except the Iron Islands atm) that fire when vassalized.
- When you’ve conquered all of them (sans Iron Islands) it triggers an event with two options: moves your capital to King’s Landing, a bunch of renown, and ‘the Conqueror’ nickname
or gives you the New Valyria empire title, ‘Dragonlord’ nickname, bunch of renown and destroys the Iron Throne title. - Whatever you pick triggers the next event which is just a coronation thingy, also creates the Conqueror’s Crown artifact.
1066 – Dance of Dragons
- The initial decision is just called “Dance of the Dragons”:
It puts you at war with the Iron Throne, currently occupied by your half-brother Aegon II, and spawns a host of 4700 men (4400 levies 300 dragonkeepers). That’s in addition to your default strength. I saw the AI beat the Iron Throne with this so it should make the bookmark playable.
I haven’t really started fleshing out the flavour for this bookmark quite yet
Why not both – Shared
- With the faith Bloodmagic core tenet you unlock the decision to Study Bloodmagic (4 year cooldown). It has a 74% chance to give you the Shadowbinder trait and a 26% chance to make your character go insane.
- The Shadowbinder trait unlocks another decision that will max out your murder scheme power and progress instantly, at the cost of the murderer trait. It also kills a random close family member as a blood sacrifice. (8 year cooldown)
Leaving out some decisions/events/traits because they’re all part of a special “mechanic”, and I don’t know how to showcase them separately. (see “dragon concept” below)
Traits:
Valyrian Blood : 100% chance to inherit.
Change your appearance and turns your hair white and eyes violet.
Reduces inbreeding chance by 100%.
Dragonseed : Currently only used as a custom bastard trait for Orys Baratheon for flavour.
Shadowbinder : Explained above.
Two custom MAA-regiments with custom art :
Dragon : Recruitable with the Dragon Rider trait. Incredibly overpowered for both sieges and battles. It’s capped at 1 regiment and it’s also capped at 1 unit.
Dragonkeepers : Recruitable with Valyrian culture. Very strong Heavy Infantry unit.
Three custom artifacts with custom icons :
- 867: Blackfyre is added to Aegon, Dark Sister is added to Visenya, Conqueror’s Crown is added to Aegon after the coronation event after conquering all the kingdoms.
- 1066: Blackfyre and Conqueror’s Crown is added to Aegon II, Dark Sister is added to Daemon ‘the Rogue prince’ Targaryen
Flavour titles (some work just being one of the asoiaf culture, but the named Seven Kingdom titles are only for the specific kingdoms when they have a liege):
- Lord/Lady instead of Count and Duke.
- Lord of the Tides: is the holder of the Driftmark county.
- Lord Paramount of the Stormlands: is the king of the Stormlands
- Lord Paramount of the Trident: is the king of the Riverlands
- Warden of the North: is the king in the North (or should I say the king who lost the north)
- Warden of the West: is the king of the Westerlands.
- Warden of the East: is the king of the Vale.
- Warden of the South: is the king of the Reach.
- Prince/Princess: is the ruler of Dorne
- Lord Reaper: is the ruler of the Iron Islands
- The small council titles (Hand of the King instead of Chancellor, Master of Coins over Steward etc), not 100% sure what the conditions are for these being active but it always works when you’re king of the Iron Throne. The title shows its default name when the position is empty, not sure where to change that and it doesn’t really matter since you wanna avoid having empty council seats.
Three custom buildings: Obsidian Mine for Dragonstone which gives Aegon/Rhaenyra ridiculous amounts of gold, Gold Mine for Casterly Rock which gives the Lannisters ridiculous amounts of gold. Also made a building called Dragon Pit that has no use right now. Will probably incorporate it into the “dragon concept” (see below).
Character’s with the Valyrian Blood trait have access to 2 decisions that let you claim Dragon Egg artifacts:
Decision 1 gives you an Egg as long as you don’t have one/haven’t hatched one
Decision 2 gives an Egg to each of your children as long as they don’t have one/haven’t hatched one.
I’ve made some new events for the Dragon Eggs .
Having a Dragon Egg artifact while possessing the Valyrian Blood trait equals a chance every year to hatch the egg (yearly chance to fire my new events).
When it hatches, the Dragon Egg artifact is destroyed and you gain one of three Dragon modifiers
- Agile Dragon: gives movement speed and pursue efficiency.
- War Dragon: gives faster siege phases and more siege progress.
- Aggressive Dragon: gives more enemy casualties and also a little bit more friendly casualties in battle.
Once your egg hatches and you get one of the 3 dragon modifiers the next event is triggered automatically, that event just has you "ride" your dargon and rewards the Dragon Rider trait instantly
Revisions:
Old revisions of this mod are available below. Click the link to download.
