The King Beyond the Rapids

The young man has wintered at our court since a returning voyage carried him across the ocean, and he has learned enough of our tongue to be dangerous with it. Asked about the country above the great rapids, Target Character describes the kingdom of the Saguenay: gold and red stones in the rock, men with skin as pale as ours who dress in cloth of wool, and, when his audience seems to want them, men with one leg and men who fly. The clerks note that the kingdom grows a new province for every doubt raised against it. It lies, he is careful to add, very far upriver, and no one will find it without him.

Conditions

Fired by

• Search for the Kingdom of SaguenayExpeditionFrom on start · right away

Trigger

Expedition›expedition_leader exists

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Effects

As soon as it happens

Create character: Culture: Target culture · Religion: Target religion · Birth location: Stadacona · Estate: Commoners · Create in limbo: yes

Age

• 20
• 35

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Options

AGive him his passage home, and the leader's ear with it.

• This may bring us closer to uncovering what we seek

  One of these, at random

  • 70%Expedition
    Change variable

    • Name: leads_found
    • Add: 1
  • 30%Nothing happens
• Target Character returns across the ocean as our guide and interpreter

  Expedition

  • Set variable
    • Name: saguenay_chief_aboard
    • Value: 1
  • Set variable
    • Name: saguenay_chief_character_var
    • Value: Target character

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BKeep him at court. The tale is worth more than the teller.

• Gain +5 Prestige
• Not shown in the game's tooltipTarget character dies

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Connections

References 1

• CommonersAs soon as it happens

Triggered by 1

• Search for the Kingdom of SaguenayWhen it starts

Scripting 4

Grants 3

• Lleads_foundOption 1
• Ssaguenay_chief_aboardOption 1
• Ssaguenay_chief_character_varOption 1

References 1

• Pprestige_weak_bonusOption 2

Definitionin_game/events/expeditions/d009_seven_cities_saguenay_events.txt:113

type = country_event

title = seven_cities_saguenay.10.title The King Beyond the Rapids

desc = seven_cities_saguenay.10.desc The young man has wintered at our court since a returning voyage carried him across the ocean, and he has learned enough of our tongue to be dangerous with it. Asked about the country above the great rapids, Target Character describes the kingdom of the Saguenay: gold and red stones in the rock, men with skin as pale as ours who dress in cloth of wool, and, when his audience seems to want them, men with one leg and men who fly. The clerks note that the kingdom grows a new province for every doubt raised against it. It lies, he is careful to add, very far upriver, and no one will find it without him.

historical_info = seven_cities_saguenay.10.historical_info Jacques Cartier took the sons of the Stadaconan chief Donnacona to France in 1534 and brought them home the following year; in 1536 he took Donnacona himself, who spent his remaining years telling the French court about the kingdom of the Saguenay, its gold, its white men in woolen cloth, and, as the audiences grew grander, its one-legged men and men who flew like bats. The pattern was consistent: the kingdom acquired whatever its listeners most wanted it to have, and it always lay one river further than anyone had gone. Donnacona died in France around 1539 without seeing Stadacona again. The stories outlived him by a century and a half.

outcome = positive

▾location_backdrop = {

backdrop_preset = backdrop_home_departure

}

▾trigger = {

▾scope:expedition = {

exists = expedition_leader

}

}

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