Simply Shattered

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# Simply Shattered

Simply Shattered fragments the world’s political map at game start,
breaking nearly every empire and kingdom into independent counts and
dukes. Religious heads survive the carnage. Then the system can be enabled for
continuous Great Holy Wars across the map, turning every
playthrough into a religious war for survival.

• Random political shatter — empires, kingdoms, and most duchies
  destroyed at game start. Counts emerge as independent rulers. Configurable
  shatter depth (Empire / Kingdom / Duchy / Full)
• Continuous Great Holy Wars — works for ALL faith types including
  shattered Catholics whose Pope title was destroyed. Rolling 10-year
  cadence per faith. Tier-agnostic target system handles dynamic kingdom
  titles
• Holy Warlords tenet system — three configurable modes
  (off / appropriate / all-warmonger) ensuring every faith can crusade
• Government rule modes — feudal / clan / tribal / culture-driven
  / random / preserve admin
• Religion shatter — overlays new faith assignments on top of
  the new political map (configurable on/off)

This release eliminated two recurring vanilla crash bugs through
defensive scripting:

• Cascade error rate reduced 99.99% from baseline
• Dominant null-character iteration cascade eliminated via accolade
  system override
• Death management vanilla bug guarded
• Targeted
  replace_path

  for tournament events, TGP DLC
  content, coronation DLC content, and death events

• Auto Shatter: Random / Vanilla De Jure / Off
• Shatter Depth: Full (county) / Duchy / Kingdom / Empire
• Government Mode: Default / All Feudal / All Clan / All Tribal /
  All Culture / All Random / All Random Empire / Admin Preserve
• Holy Warlords Tenets: Off / On (appropriate per faith) /
  Warmonger All
• Religion Shatter: On / Off
• Culture Striping: Start with no Research and no Traditions: On / Off
• Development settings: 0, 0-25, 25-50, 50-75, 75-100

• CK3 1.19.x (latest patch supported)
• All DLCs supported (RTP, ToT, FoL, EoE, AUH, RTP, etc.)
• Best for fresh games — start of campaign required for shatter to fire
• Compatible with most cosmetic / portrait mods
• Conflicts: any mod that touches
  events/activities/tournaments

  ,

  events/dlc/tgp

  ,

  events/dlc/ach

  , or

  events/death_events

  (we use

  replace_path

  for
  crash safety)

• Some vanilla AI hunt activity errors persist in shatter (engine-internal,
  not script-fixable). Cosmetic log noise only — no gameplay impact
• Japanese clan succession warnings during heavy shatter — engine handles
  gracefully
• Generated accolade knights may use simplified templates in shatter
  contexts (visual flavor only)

For your first playthrough:

• Auto Shatter: Random
• Shatter Depth: Duchy (good balance of fragmentation + structure)
• Government Mode: Default
• Holy Warlords Tenets: On
• Religion Shatter: On

When reporting crashes, please include:

• The crash dump from
  Documents/Paradox Interactive/Crusader Kings III/crashes/
• Your game rule selections
• The last few minutes of
  error.log