EventAcross the pillars
Ransoming the Captives
Peace with Portugal has been signed, but peace has left Country holding a great many Portuguese captives, and our Jewish merchants, who maintain trading contacts across the strait that few of our own officials can match, have offered to broker their ransom. It is, by any measure, a lucrative piece of business to hand to men whose loyalty some at Court Title still quietly question.
Historical event
- Is
Morocco - Date: 1450–1700
- Monthly chance: 5%
Trigger
Exact conditions
- Gain +10 Prestige
- change_gold_effect: Scale: 1
- +10 towards
Conciliatory 
PortugalAdd opinion: Target: Root · Modifier: Pleased (20 · Yearly decay 1)
Exact script
- change_gold_effect: Scale: 0.5
- +10 towards
Belligerent
Exact script
Requires 4
Religions
JudaismTrigger
DLCs
Across the PillarsTrigger
Grants 1
- PleasedOption 1
Changes 1
- Belligerent vs ConciliatoryOption 1, Option 2
References 3
Countries
- PortugalOption 1
Mentions 1
- JudaismDesc
Scripting 5
Uses 2
- change_gold_effectscale = 1 (+1)Option 1, Option 2
- event_illustration_estate_effectbackground = estate_type:peasants_estate · foreground = estate_type:burghers_estateAs soon as it happens
References 3
- prestige_mild_bonusOption 1
- societal_value_move_to_leftOption 2
- societal_value_move_to_rightOption 1
type = country_event
title = d009_sephardi_morocco.5.title Ransoming the Captives
desc = d009_sephardi_morocco.5.desc Peace with Portugal has been signed, but peace has left Country holding a great many Portuguese captives, and our Jewish merchants, who maintain trading contacts across the strait that few of our own officials can match, have offered to broker their ransom. It is, by any measure, a lucrative piece of business to hand to men whose loyalty some at Court Title still quietly question.
outcome = neutral
historical_info = d009_sephardi_morocco.5.historical_info After the Sa'dī victory over a Portuguese invasion force at the Battle of El-Qaṣr al-Kabir (Alcácer-Quibir) in 1578, Jewish merchants in Morocco played a documented role brokering the ransom of captured Portuguese nobles and soldiers back to Iberia, a lucrative and diplomatically delicate business given their existing trade networks on both sides of the strait.
fire_only_once = yes