EventAcross the pillars
Donnacona Was Telling Stories
After three months up the Saguenay the column has reached the country Donnacona described to Cartier sixty years ago: a country, the Stadaconan chief said, of fair-skinned men in fur cloaks, of mountains heavy with gold and rivers running silver. The actual country is rocky, wooded, and cold. There are no fair-skinned men. There is no gold in the streams. The Innu hunters the column meets are willing to trade furs and offer no theory about kingdoms further on. Target Leader is forced to conclude that Donnacona told Cartier a story that Cartier wanted to hear, in the hope that Cartier would take Donnacona to France and let him come home alive.
Fired by
Search for the Kingdom of SaguenayExpeditionFrom on arrive to waypoint · right away
Trigger
Expeditionexpedition_leader exists
Exact conditions
- Gains Decreased Morale for 3 years
Army Morale−10%
Navy Morale−10%
- Fail expedition: Expedition
Exact script
Grants 1
- Decreased MoraleOption
Triggered by 1
- Search for the Kingdom of SaguenayOn reaching a waypoint
Scripting 1
References 1
type = country_event
title = seven_cities_saguenay.1.title Donnacona Was Telling Stories
desc = seven_cities_saguenay.1.desc After three months up the Saguenay the column has reached the country Donnacona described to Cartier sixty years ago: a country, the Stadaconan chief said, of fair-skinned men in fur cloaks, of mountains heavy with gold and rivers running silver. The actual country is rocky, wooded, and cold. There are no fair-skinned men. There is no gold in the streams. The Innu hunters the column meets are willing to trade furs and offer no theory about kingdoms further on. Target Leader is forced to conclude that Donnacona told Cartier a story that Cartier wanted to hear, in the hope that Cartier would take Donnacona to France and let him come home alive.
historical_info = seven_cities_saguenay.1.historical_info Donnacona, the chief of Stadacona at the head of the Saint Lawrence, fed Cartier a steady diet of stories about a wealthy kingdom called Saguenay in the interior of New France during the winter Cartier spent at Stadacona in 1535-36. Cartier carried Donnacona back to France as a guest of the crown; Donnacona died in France without ever seeing his home again. The Saguenay legend persisted in French exploration of the interior until the late seventeenth century, by which point the actual geography of the country, lakes, rivers, and the fur trade that came out of it, had been mapped sufficiently to retire the legend.
outcome = negative
location_backdrop = {
backdrop_preset = backdrop_wilderness_landing
}
trigger = {
scope:expedition = {
exists = expedition_leader
}
}