AGOT Northern Valyrians
Hey, welcome to my first mod for CK3. It’s not exactly a lore friendly mod, but it was fun making this and I wanted to share it with anyone else who might be interested in this particular theme. I’ve developed an interest in Norse culture lately, so I wanted to spin in onto Valyrians in a Varangian Adventure type theme. Granted, the Targaryens did do something similar when they relocated to Dragonstone, but it didn’t particularly fit the idea I had. I wanted a more aggressive, explorer and reaver type culture for Valyrians. It kinda fits in with the ocean based theme of the other Valyrian offshoots on Westeros like the Westerosi Valyrians and the Velaryons. This mod has two things it adds to the game, one being a culture offshoot and the other being a faith for the Valyrian religion.
The culture is called…Northern Valyrians. Big shocker, right? (If anyone else has a better name, I’m open to suggestions). Basically, it’s meant to be an aggressive version of the Westerosi Valyrian culture to reflect how the Northern Valyrian culture came about. Due to that, I’ve structured the traditions in a way that would meld an ocean based background settling in Northern Westeros. It probably would’ve made more sense if I used the Ironborn culture instead of the First Men/Northmen for this, but I liked how some of the religious themes played into each other from the Valyrian and Old Gods faith, so I went with that instead.
That brings me to the religion portion of the mod. The new faith, called Old Gods of Valyria is a mashup between the Old Gods religion and the Valyrian religion. Since the North still believes in the Long Night and the Others (somewhat), I feel like the adaptive view of the Valyrians would’ve just meshed it with their own religion due to that instead of going the Targaryen route and adopting the Faith of the Seven with a few liberties of their own.
For compatibility, there should be no issues with most other mods. The only mods I can think of that would cause problems would be mods that specifically edit the Valyrian culture and faith. If anyone finds any bugs, be sure to post them and I’ll try fix them. I’m open to any suggestions for tweaks/variations for this mod, so feel free to drop them down below too. I’ve never actually made a mod for anything before, so if anyone has more knowledge on this that has found a way to do something better, or just has advice, feel free to share that too!
Lastly, big thanks to the team that gave us the AGOT mod. All parts of my mod are from it.
