19 February 2024 Experimental Release

It's been a long time coming, and we're grateful for your patience. But it's here at last - the latest experimental release!

Featuring:

Optimisation

• Full overhaul of government potentials - many realms have different government now
• Corresponding full overhaul of succession laws
• Some fixes imported from CleanSlate
• Cleanup around job titles and some of their actions
• Retiring the 'is Muslim' trigger - the Calishite faith may play slightly more like other Faerûnian religions now

Graphics

• More than 80 new static portraits
• Diversified Dekanter, Tasloi and Batiri portraits
• New Elder Brain portrait set
• New loading screens
• Religious garb now varies by patron deity and class
• Lots of subtle adjustments to portrait rendering
• Additional death type icons
• Icons for all patron traits that lacked them
• Canon heraldry for Barze

Nicknames

• More nicknames added
• Characters who transition gender while having a gendered nickname will now get it replaced

Character history

• Lots of new characters, including dynasties for previously isolated courtiers
• Lifespan adjustments for lots of existing characters
• Historical vampire spawn now remember who spawned them
• Relatedly, Saestra Karanok now actually does the thing she's notorious for
• Aylin and Isobel's happy ending has been upgraded
• Luna's Silver Blood now has a bloodline
• Past Meisarchs of Amn get their correct titles
• More custom titles for other historical characters too

Title history

• Three more dwarfholds
• Kadar and the Nine Council use Divine Elective succession
• New history details in the Western Heartlands

Diversity

• Genies, fiends, and celestials get diverse courtiers

Gameplay

• Long-lived species have reduced disease chances
• More people can now worship the Abeiran primordials
• Some groundwork for future warlock-patron interactions
• Candidates in Nomadic Elective succession must be inside the realm
• Vendettas can only be declared within diplomatic range
• Changes to the celestial summons for some cultures
• Sahuagin CBs are now range-limited

Map

• Aerie of the Snow Eagles is now part of Angalpuk duchy
• Ibelgrak Valley split out from Angalpuk as its own duchy
• Brynwood is now a forest, as it should be
• Commonwealths are now orange

Localisation

• Government flavour updated
• Cooldown timers explained better
• No more 'semper ubi sub ubi'
• Katakoro Plateau region correctly identified
• Warnings about attacking co-religionists no longer assume your religion is a denomination of a wider faith
• Rivals will now accuse each other of being alienists, not witches
• No more references to Purgatory in the English localisation
• Hlal's aliases will work correctly

Bug fixes

• Only adults can appoint apprentices
• Barbarian Adventure CB should now work as intended, with better AI control
• Localisation broken by case-sensitivity should be fixed now
• No more name-swapped murders
• Lots of small fixes