EventAcross the pillars
Silver Out of the West
He was given up for dead years ago, lost with a voyage that ended on rocks far to the south, and this morning he stands at the gate asking for the expedition by name. In his fist is a knotted kerchief, and in the kerchief is silver: a clasp and two flattened beads of worked metal, traded hand to hand, Target Character says, out of a country in the deep interior where a White King rules a mountain of it. The man cannot write his own name and has never yet been caught wrong about a coastline. The assayer bites the beads, weighs them, and hands them back without a word.
Fired by
Search for the Sierra de la PlataExpeditionFrom 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
3045
Exact script
References 1
- CommonersAs soon as it happens
Triggered by 1
- Search for the Sierra de la PlataWhen it starts
Scripting 6
Requires 1
- uncovered_riches_variableOption 2
Grants 4
Variables
- leads_foundOption 1
- plata_castaway_character_varOption 1
- plata_castaway_roadOption 1
- uncovered_riches_variableOption 2
Uses 1
- change_gold_effectscale = -1Option 2
type = country_event
title = seven_cities_sierra.10.title Silver Out of the West
desc = seven_cities_sierra.10.desc He was given up for dead years ago, lost with a voyage that ended on rocks far to the south, and this morning he stands at the gate asking for the expedition by name. In his fist is a knotted kerchief, and in the kerchief is silver: a clasp and two flattened beads of worked metal, traded hand to hand, Target Character says, out of a country in the deep interior where a White King rules a mountain of it. The man cannot write his own name and has never yet been caught wrong about a coastline. The assayer bites the beads, weighs them, and hands them back without a word.
historical_info = seven_cities_sierra.10.historical_info Aleixo Garcia, a Portuguese sailor wrecked on the island of Santa Catarina with survivors of the Solis expedition in 1516, heard from his Guarani hosts of a White King in the western mountains who ruled a country of silver. Around 1524 he followed the story inland and became the first European to touch the wealth of the Andes, returning with silver looted from the Inca frontier years before Pizarro had seen Peru. Garcia was killed on the road home, but his silver kept traveling: pieces of it reached the coast, passed into the hands of Sebastian Cabot's crews, and persuaded Cabot to abandon his voyage to the Moluccas and turn up the river he would rename the Rio de la Plata, the river of silver, after metal it never carried.
outcome = positive
location_backdrop = {
backdrop_preset = backdrop_home_departure
}
trigger = {
scope:expedition = {
exists = expedition_leader
}
}