Living Characters
It’s my pleasure to introduce Living Characters, an AI mod focused on making the heroes and rulers of the world more proactive, dramatic and interesting. In total, the mod adds over 45 new quests, challenges and ruler actions to give heroes and rulers more ways to interact with the world.
Gameplay of Thrones: Heroes and rulers have a variety of new ways to influence the world’s politics. Single characters can intermarry to bring their houses closer together, heroes who have friends in a rival house may try to get vendettas called off, and rulers may place bounties on heroes and agents who have offended them, among other things.
Duty Calls: Rulers can now hire temporary specialists to respond to crises in their lands, or just to undermine their enemies. Among others, rulers may hire Lightbringers, Exorcists or Inquisitors to fight back the forces of darkness, hire Assassins to get inconvenient rulers out of the way, and hire Doomsayers and Provocateurs to spread chaos and madness in rival kingdoms. If this is inconvenient to you, you can always kill them off for gold and items at little to no cost in profile or menace.
Darkened Souls: As characters fall to shadow, they will become more and more fascinated with random "evil" concepts, and will express that fascination in new and exciting ways. For example, mages may drive themselves mad with forbidden knowledge or try to reanimate dead loved ones as revenants, rulers may summon demons or undead armies to rampage in enemy lands, and heroes may strike bargains with the orcs and Deep Ones they were supposed to defend against.
A Wondrous Age: The world itself will also have its impact on the people living in it. Vampire covens may emerge in areas with sympathetic rulers and slowly spread their influence elsewhere, with some gaining the Hunger freely. Reckless heroes may contract the plagues you spread, and Holy Order tenets may influence the minds of their more faithful followers.
Revisions:
Old revisions of this mod are available below. Click the link to download.
