EventAcross the pillars
Exactly What We Wanted to Hear
The captive is brought before Target Leader trembling, and he tells us everything we hoped to hear: yes, the golden lord is real; yes, his court lies only a few days upriver; yes, the very rooftops are sheathed in gold that is stripped and remelted with each new spring. It is a magnificent account, delivered with the wide, eager eyes of a man who has understood exactly what his questioners crossed a continent to find. Our interpreter draws Target Leader aside and murmurs a warning: a frightened man will swear the sky is green if he believes it will send armed strangers marching away from his own village. The difficulty is that every word of it is also precisely what we wished to be told.
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_3
Exact conditions
Triggered by 1
- Search for El DoradoOn reaching a new location
Scripting 6
Requires 1
- el_dorado_3Trigger
Grants 2
- el_dorado_3As soon as it happens
- leads_foundOption 1, Option 2…
Uses 1
- change_gold_effectscale = -2Option 2
References 2
- prestige_extreme_bonusOption 3
- prestige_extreme_penaltyOption 3
type = country_event
title = d009_el_dorado_events.3.title Exactly What We Wanted to Hear
desc = d009_el_dorado_events.3.desc The captive is brought before Target Leader trembling, and he tells us everything we hoped to hear: yes, the golden lord is real; yes, his court lies only a few days upriver; yes, the very rooftops are sheathed in gold that is stripped and remelted with each new spring. It is a magnificent account, delivered with the wide, eager eyes of a man who has understood exactly what his questioners crossed a continent to find. Our interpreter draws Target Leader aside and murmurs a warning: a frightened man will swear the sky is green if he believes it will send armed strangers marching away from his own village. The difficulty is that every word of it is also precisely what we wished to be told.
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
}