You start in 1066 as any of hundreds of different counts, dukes or kings from Iceland to Acre. If politics, European history, family dynamics and grand strategic ambition interest or entertain you - and if you might like to try your hand as a fictional participant rather than merely a reader or watcher - Crusader Kings II will provide all of the storylines and drama you could ever want. In other words, it was just another Thursday night playing Crusader Kings II, the captivating new computer strategy game from Paradox Interactive. I knew that what I had done was for the good of the family. I was exposed as a kinslayer and reviled, but I went to my death soon after with a clear conscience. Only then, when I had wiped out my first son’s entire line, could I rest assured that my kingdom would pass to my second son, the brilliant and talented Duke Gilla-Comgain. Under the law of primogeniture, my bastard grandson was heir to my kingdom. With a heavy heart, I ordered him to assassinate my own beloved son.īut that was not sufficient. I called my spymaster, Mayor Constantin of Carrickfergus, to my side. My entire realm was at risk of passing outside our dynasty because my own son and successor was a fool. With disgust I realized that while I had been conquering new realms I had not paid sufficient attention to the doings under my own roof. Even worse, he had allowed his bastard - who was legally not of our house at all - to become his heir! In lust, he had sired his own first son not with his wife but with a young unmarried trollop in his own court. When I returned home from my years of campaigning I realized with horror that all I had wrought had been imperiled by the licentiousness and poor judgment of my oldest son, Prince Mael-Maedoc, Duke of Leinster and scion of the Kingdom of Ireland. I knew my remaining days above this soil were short, precious, and I looked forward to enjoying them in prosperity and peace. From my castle in County Tyrconnell - the same bastion whence my father started our family’s march to power almost a century before - I surveyed the entire emerald isle at my command. A hale and venerable 68 years of age, with nine children my issue, I surveyed my kingdom with pride. “The Great,” they called me - King Flann I, unifier of Ireland.
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