CK2 - Completing Conquista

[Cyneheard]

Mist:

Make sure that our dear Emir doesn't fight any battles until he's had at least one baby boy, if not two.
So wars during Regency: Awesome.
Wars at the age of 16 when childless: Not a good idea. With our luck, we'll lose our Emir the first time he steps on a battlefield. Where we outnumber the enemy 10,000 to 500.

[Jkaen]

Well, here is the tale of my (brief) reign.

I Emir Hazard



came in to power in command of the following lands:



While still of a young age I felt I was not ready for rule, so left most of the work to my trusted council



While I seeked tutoring from one of my court (Nizamaddin)



Before long I finally saw the completion of a project of one of my predecessors, and we founded the Castle of Cordoba



Meanwhile the holy war I had taken power in resolved with the addition of a city and mosque, but unfortunately our allies took the province itself.

Elsewhere rumour reached me of a new faction that had come to power



Within months of each other, we saw both a crusade and a jihad declared





And while the infidels crusade was quickly resolved I went to my grave with our jihad unresolved



My advisors then suggested that we liberate our neighbouring province of Almansa



Which was quickly resolved and allowed me to gain the Emirate of Murcia



However it seems we were not the only one who wished for that position and before long the inevitable happened



It was then that I came of age and was able to take a wife, who I later came to love



Soon the rebellion was destroyed and his lands taken back for our own. This then over I was free to go on pilgrimage. During this journey I came to be Humble, and learned more of war, but more importantly I felt more healthy than I had for a long time. Surely that would mean a long fruitful reign!



During my trip, laws were passed in my homeland, that I hoped to readdress once in command mysef



To begin with that I waged war once more, however the war went badly for me, first through the attentions of a camp follower



Then from the attentions of an enemy sword



The enemies main armies crushed I went happily to sleep dreaming of future victories to be had

[Jkaen]

Oh and The Save

[Mist]

I am, I was Selim Raq, the first of the name. I have no siblings, no one of the family that could carry the name Zirid forwards in case of my demise. And I am much to young to shoulder the burden of the crown just yet. But I had a dream. On the cold November night, when my father was dying wrecked by fits of Syphilitic fever, one of my forebears visited me in my sleep. I knew of him, family chronicles say he was a bad-ass, last of us to live to long age and prosper, so when he spoke to me I listened in awe.

"Bad times have fallen on our house. We're at war. The fools in Africa lost the Sultanate, the Almoravids from across the straits eye our lands with greed. And there's no one that can deliver us from peril but you. I am loathe to put all this on your young shoulders, but alas, there's no other way. Luke, you're our only hope."

With that, the old man vanished. Luke? Was the spirit prophetic, or just addled with age as the old men often are? Wasn't my name Slim Raq? Why would he call me otherwise? Meh. All that thinking was way too much effort and it made me drowsy. Let it be Luke.



I can't be bothered either way.

[pindicator]

Nice diplo stat already!
I really hope Luke reverses the trend of our leaders dying younger every rule...

[Sareln]

JKaen, good writeup, but I think that's the wrong save. You should have something for 1117, not 1088...

[Sareln]

JKaen, good writeup, but I think that's the wrong save. You should have something for 1117, not 1088...

Yeah, your finishing save is 1096, we're rolling backwards in time!

[Mist]

Uh, now that you mention it, seems like JKaen grabbed and played Cyneheard's save ( the deceased father of our emir is called Tamim )

I can play from yours, or we can wait for him to play the proper one this time. Both options work for me.

[pindicator]

Cyneheard's is 2 sets ago (before Sareln and me). So i'm not sure we want to go back that far.

[Sareln]

Would prefer that JKaen play the right save so he can put his mark on it. After all, there's still plenty of time left in the weekend .