EventAcross the pillars
A Hoard Well Guarded
Beyond the tree line stands a place the guides will not go near: a walled sanctuary, its gateway heavy with worked gold, its parapets lined with silent, watchful men. Whatever is kept within is plainly worth killing to defend, which in the reckoning of our officers makes it plainly worth taking. Target Leader weighs the ranks of spearmen against the weight of those doors and finds the arithmetic grim. There is gold here for the taking, if we are willing to pay for it in a coin other than silver.
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_5
Exact conditions
Triggered by 1
- Search for El DoradoOn reaching a new location
Scripting 6
Requires 2
- el_dorado_5Trigger
- uncovered_riches_variableOption 1, Option 2
Grants 2
- el_dorado_5As soon as it happens
- uncovered_riches_variableOption 1, Option 2
Uses 2
- seven_cities_expedition_calamity_effectOption 1
- seven_cities_expedition_stall_effectMAX = 30 · MIN = 15Option 1
type = country_event
title = d009_el_dorado_events.5.title A Hoard Well Guarded
desc = d009_el_dorado_events.5.desc Beyond the tree line stands a place the guides will not go near: a walled sanctuary, its gateway heavy with worked gold, its parapets lined with silent, watchful men. Whatever is kept within is plainly worth killing to defend, which in the reckoning of our officers makes it plainly worth taking. Target Leader weighs the ranks of spearmen against the weight of those doors and finds the arithmetic grim. There is gold here for the taking, if we are willing to pay for it in a coin other than silver.
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 = negative
location_backdrop = {
backdrop_preset = backdrop_wilderness_landing
}