EventAcross the pillars
A Prize Worth the Delay
The scouts return breathless: a day's march off our line, in a valley we were never meant to enter, sits a town wealthier than anything we have seen since the coast. Terraced fields, full storehouses, worked gold glinting at the throats of its people. It is not the city we were sent to find, and turning aside for it will cost us weeks the season can ill spare. Yet the men have already seen the glint, and a column that marches past gold it can see, chasing gold it has only heard of, is a column that starts to ask hard questions of the man who leads it.
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_4
Exact conditions
Triggered by 1
- Search for El DoradoOn reaching a new location
Scripting 5
Requires 2
- el_dorado_4Trigger
- uncovered_riches_variableOption 1, Option 2
Grants 2
- el_dorado_4As soon as it happens
- uncovered_riches_variableOption 1, Option 2
Uses 1
- seven_cities_expedition_stall_effectMAX = 30 · MIN = 15 (+1)Option 1, Option 2
type = country_event
title = d009_el_dorado_events.4.title A Prize Worth the Delay
desc = d009_el_dorado_events.4.desc The scouts return breathless: a day's march off our line, in a valley we were never meant to enter, sits a town wealthier than anything we have seen since the coast. Terraced fields, full storehouses, worked gold glinting at the throats of its people. It is not the city we were sent to find, and turning aside for it will cost us weeks the season can ill spare. Yet the men have already seen the glint, and a column that marches past gold it can see, chasing gold it has only heard of, is a column that starts to ask hard questions of the man who leads it.
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
}