Event
Pruning the Family Tree
As the legitimacy of Ruler is being challenged in some quarters, within the Interior Service, there are whispers that the security of the whole state is at risk. The eunuchs are sharpening their daggers and suggest we allow them to discreetly end the ambitions of Ambitious Brother, one of the main potential challengers to the throne.
OttomansCountrydynamic historical event.tagDefinitionin_game/events/DHE/flavor_TUR.txt:4251
4252hide_portraits = yes
4253type = country_event
4254title = flavor_tur.64.title Pruning the Family Tree
4255desc = flavor_tur.64.desc As the legitimacy of Ruler is being challenged in some quarters, within the Interior Service, there are whispers that the security of the whole state is at risk. The eunuchs are sharpening their daggers and suggest we allow them to discreetly end the ambitions of Ambitious Brother, one of the main potential challengers to the throne.
4256outcome = neutral
4258fire_only_once = yes
4259dynamic_historical_event = {
}
4266historical_info = flavor_tur.64.historical_info Like many Muslim dynasties before them, the Ottomans struggled with succession issues due to polygamy and vague inheritance laws, and civil wars between brothers were commonplace. Though this would eventually be solved by Kafes, the forced seclusion of the sultan's potential successors, in the early period, fratricide was an option, eagerly employed by Mehmet III when he had his 19 brothers killed.
4268illustration_tags = {
426910 = angry
427010 = interior
}
4273trigger = {
4274has_ruler = yes
4275any_character = {
4276is_alive = yes
4277is_sibling_of = root.ruler
4278is_female = no
4279is_ruler = no
4280is_heir = no
4281age_in_years >= 16
}
4284government_power < 80
4286has_reform = government_reform:enderun_interior_service
}
4289immediate = {
4290root.ruler = {
4290save_scope_as = target_ruler
}
4291random_character = {
4292limit = {
4293is_alive = yes
4294is_sibling_of = root.ruler
4295is_female = no
4296is_ruler = no
4297is_heir = no
4298age_in_years >= 16
}
4300save_scope_as = ambitious_brother
}
4302capital = {
4303save_scope_as = capital_location
}
}