Extra Custom Strong Seeds

Uploaded · Published September 2, 2024 · Updated July 10, 2026

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Author: bardurh

Last revision: 6 Jul at 21:57 UTC (16)

File size: 15.23 MB

Description:

This mod lets a house pass down a distinctive, custom-built appearance to its descendants. The strong seed mechanic affects houses instead of dynasties — meaning a new cadet or bastard branch can have a completely different custom strong seed from the rest of your dynasty. Using the Custom Strong Seed Creator, you can define a full set of strong seeds for your house at any point during a game.

Features

Features are organised into groups you navigate through — pick a group, then a feature, then a value:

Hair — hair colour, hair type, no beard, body hair, hair aging
Body — skin tone, complexion, height, body shape, aging
Ears — size, outward, angle, plus Fantasy Ears (pointed and slightly pointed)
Eyes — eye colour, eye colour saturation, size, corner depth, fold shape, upper lid size
Eyebrows — brow curve, forward, inner and outer height, width, plus eyebrow shape and fullness
Nose — size, forward, height, length, profile, ridge angle and width, tip angle/forward/width, nostril height and width
Mouth — upper and lower lip fullness, profile and width, philtrum shape and width
Face Structure — cheek forward, height and width, jaw definition, chin forward

Colours

Hair colour is organised into colour families, each with two shade variants and ten lightness steps (1a–2j, light to dark):

Natural hair — Blonde, Gold, Bronze, Red, Auburn, Brown and Black (20 shades each)
Valyrian Coloured Hair — five silver shades
Rainbow Colours — Kissed by Fire plus 90 vivid colours

Eye colour offers 22 colour families — from natural blues, greys and browns to yellow, red, violet, purple, amethyst and more — each with 11 steps from light to dark. Skin tone uses a full colour grid, and each skin colour has an average saturation (the separate skin saturation option has been removed).

Most features use a simple value scale, where the lowest value is the most extreme in one direction and the highest the most extreme in the other. Complexion and eyebrows work in two steps — pick a template, then set its intensity — giving you fine control over things like skin detail and eyebrow thickness.

How to access the Custom Strong Seed Creator

You can open the Custom Strong Seed Creator at any point during a game using the associated decision. Opening the creator clears any custom strong seeds currently set for your house, so you always start from a clean slate.
You can also create a custom character and start the game without adding the House Customizer trait — an event window will then pop up, allowing you to set up your custom strong seed from the start.
If you do add the House Customizer trait in the ruler designer, you will experience a different event chain, which does not offer the option of creating your own custom strong seed.

Note for the no beard option: your starting character gets "no beard" as custom beard, but it won’t replace your current beard, so you will have to change that manually. Your character’s future descendants will not get beards.

Credits

The strong seed mechanic this mod is built on was created by Vierwood and Dylan. Thanks also to the A Game of Thrones team, whose work this mod builds on.

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