EventAcross the pillars
A Map of Dubious Provenance
Two men present themselves at our fire with the easy confidence of practiced liars: deserters, or gamblers, or escaped convicts, for their story shifts with every retelling. What does not shift is the map they carry, a greasy square of hide crowded with golden lakes, mountains of solid silver, and cities drawn grander than any that could truly stand. They swear to every landmark upon their lives, which our sergeant observes are not worth wagering much upon. Still, it is the only map we have, and a false trail walked boldly has carried many an expedition further than an honest one refused in fear.
Fired by
Search for El DoradoExpeditionFrom on arrive to new location · right away
Trigger
- Expeditionexpedition_leader exists
- Location
- Is a land location
- Province DefinitionAny neighbor province definitionAny location in province definitionIs a land location
- ExpeditionDoes NOT have Variable: el_dorado_1
Exact conditions
Triggered by 1
- Search for El DoradoOn reaching a new location
Scripting 6
Requires 1
- el_dorado_1Trigger
Grants 2
- el_dorado_1As soon as it happens
- leads_foundOption 1
Uses 3
- change_gold_effectscale = -1.5Option 1
- seven_cities_expedition_calamity_effectOption 1
- seven_cities_expedition_stall_effectMAX = 15 · MIN = 5Option 1
type = country_event
title = d009_el_dorado_events.1.title A Map of Dubious Provenance
desc = d009_el_dorado_events.1.desc Two men present themselves at our fire with the easy confidence of practiced liars: deserters, or gamblers, or escaped convicts, for their story shifts with every retelling. What does not shift is the map they carry, a greasy square of hide crowded with golden lakes, mountains of solid silver, and cities drawn grander than any that could truly stand. They swear to every landmark upon their lives, which our sergeant observes are not worth wagering much upon. Still, it is the only map we have, and a false trail walked boldly has carried many an expedition further than an honest one refused in fear.
historical_info = d009_el_dorado_events.el_dorado_desc El Dorado, the Gilded One, began as a real ceremony among the Muisca of the Colombian highlands, in which a new ruler was coated in gold dust and rowed out onto Lake Guatavita to cast offerings of gold and emeralds into its waters. In the retelling of Spanish and later English adventurers, the gilded man swelled into a golden city, then a hidden kingdom, and at last a whole lost empire, its supposed location retreating ever deeper into the interior, from the Andes to the Orinoco to the forests of Guiana. The search consumed a generation of entradas: Jimenez de Quesada, Belalcazar, and the ruinous venture of Gonzalo Pizarro and Francisco de Orellana, which found no gold but produced the first European navigation of the Amazon. Later expeditions collapsed into mutiny, most infamously under Lope de Aguirre, while others labored to drain Lake Guatavita itself, recovering a little treasure at enormous cost. No kingdom was ever found, for none had ever existed, yet the legend outlived every man who died chasing it.
outcome = positive
location_backdrop = {
backdrop_preset = backdrop_wilderness_landing
}