EventAcross the pillars
A Host Without Banners
The council fires burn late, and in the morning the offer comes through the interpreters: the river peoples will march with us against the country of the White King. Not as guides and not as porters, but as an army, thousands strong, with their own reasons. Their grandfathers raided the mountain country before any of us had crossed the ocean, and they remember the roads and the fords of the thirstland between. The officers are of two minds. A host that size cannot starve on the road, says one. A host that size, says another, cannot arrive as anything but a war.
Fired by
Search for the Sierra de la PlataExpeditionFrom on monthly · right away
Trigger
Expeditionexpedition_leader exists
Exact conditions
Triggered by 1
- Search for the Sierra de la PlataEach month
Scripting 6
Requires 1
Grants 4
Variables
- chance_avoid_calamity_variableOption 2
- expedition_receives_guides_and_porters_variableOption 1
- leads_foundOption 1
- plata_host_joinedOption 1
Uses 1
- change_gold_effectscale = -1Option 2
type = country_event
title = seven_cities_sierra.11.title A Host Without Banners
desc = seven_cities_sierra.11.desc The council fires burn late, and in the morning the offer comes through the interpreters: the river peoples will march with us against the country of the White King. Not as guides and not as porters, but as an army, thousands strong, with their own reasons. Their grandfathers raided the mountain country before any of us had crossed the ocean, and they remember the roads and the fords of the thirstland between. The officers are of two minds. A host that size cannot starve on the road, says one. A host that size, says another, cannot arrive as anything but a war.
historical_info = seven_cities_sierra.11.historical_info When Aleixo Garcia went west in about 1524 he did not travel as an explorer with bearers: he marched with a Guarani war-host reckoned in the thousands, joining an expedition the Guarani were mounting for their own purposes against the Inca frontier. The combined force crossed the Chaco, the thirstland the Spanish would learn to dread, and struck the outposts of the empire deeply enough that the Inca fortified the frontier afterward. European history files the raid under exploration. From the Guarani side of the ledger, a foreign sailor with a beard had been permitted to come along on a war they were having anyway.
outcome = neutral
location_backdrop = {
backdrop_preset = backdrop_overland_caravan
}
trigger = {
scope:expedition = {
exists = expedition_leader
}
}