EventAcross the pillars
The Man Who Walked
He is waiting on the quay before the last water casks are stowed: barefoot, burned brown, dressed in whatever three different ports would part with. Target Character tells his story with the air a man who has told it often. Cast away on the far shore of the western ocean years ago, he walked the length of its coast for a year or more until a fishing crew took him off a northern headland. Somewhere in the middle of that journey he passed through Norumbega, and he speaks of the pillars of crystal and silver there, of lords carried in litters hung with pearls. The pilots ask him to show them place on a chart, but he only responds that no chart has ever been right about anything.
Fired by
Search for NorumbegaExpeditionFrom on start · right away
Trigger
Expeditionexpedition_leader exists
Exact conditions
Create character: Culture: RootCulture · Religion: RootReligion · Birth location: RootCapital · Estate: 
Commoners · Create in limbo: yes
Commoners · Create in limbo: yesAge
3555
Exact script
References 1
- CommonersAs soon as it happens
Triggered by 1
- Search for NorumbegaWhen it starts
Scripting 4
Grants 3
- leads_foundOption 1
- norumbega_walker_aboardOption 1
- walker_character_varOption 1
References 1
- research_progress_weak_bonusOption 2
type = country_event
title = seven_cities_norumbega.10.title The Man Who Walked
desc = seven_cities_norumbega.10.desc He is waiting on the quay before the last water casks are stowed: barefoot, burned brown, dressed in whatever three different ports would part with. Target Character tells his story with the air a man who has told it often. Cast away on the far shore of the western ocean years ago, he walked the length of its coast for a year or more until a fishing crew took him off a northern headland. Somewhere in the middle of that journey he passed through Norumbega, and he speaks of the pillars of crystal and silver there, of lords carried in litters hung with pearls. The pilots ask him to show them place on a chart, but he only responds that no chart has ever been right about anything.
historical_info = seven_cities_norumbega.10.historical_info In 1568 the English sailor David Ingram and a hundred shipmates were put ashore near Tampico after the fight at San Juan de Ulua left John Hawkins without provisions to carry them home. Eleven months later a French ship took Ingram off the coast of Nova Scotia, which if true means he had walked some three thousand miles of native trade paths. By the time Sir Francis Walsingham's circle examined him in 1582, the walk had acquired a city called Norumbega, with pillars of silver and crystal and kings borne on ruby-studded chairs. Richard Hakluyt printed the account in 1589 and dropped it from his next edition as past believing. The walk itself may well have happened. The city grew in the telling, drawn out of a poor man by great men who asked exactly the questions they wished answered.
outcome = positive
location_backdrop = {
backdrop_preset = backdrop_home_departure
}
trigger = {
scope:expedition = {
exists = expedition_leader
}
}