EventAcross the pillars
The Mountain of Silver
The country the legend described is real, and the column has found it. There is a mountain here, broken open in three places, the silver ore at the surface in seams a hand thick, the assayer reporting an ore grade above anything previously documented in the Indies. The Chicha lords who control the foothills are willing to receive an embassy; their interest is in iron tools and Spanish horses, not in being conquered. The treaty can be negotiated. The mountain is open. Target Leader sends three riders to the coast with samples sealed in lead boxes. The crown will not need much convincing.
Fired by
Search for the Sierra de la PlataExpeditionFrom on arrive to waypoint · right away
Trigger
Expeditionexpedition_leader exists
Exact conditions
- Gain +20 Prestige
- Gains Focus on Land Exploration for 5 years
- change_gold_effect: Scale: 8
- LocationGains Sierra de la Plata Discovered permanently
- grant_seven_cities_expedition_loot_effect
- IfThen
- The Expedition brought back riches:
- CapitalMarketAdd goods supply: Goods:
GoldAmount- Value: Expeditionvar:uncovered_riches_variable
- Multiply
2030
- IfExpedition
- Has Variable: expedition_receives_exotic_goods_variable
- Has Variable: last_exotic_good
Then- The porters and cargo of the Expedition brought back exotic goods:
- CapitalMarketAdd goods supply: Goods: Expedition
var:last_exotic_goodAmount- Value: Expeditionvar:expedition_receives_exotic_goods_variable
- Multiply
2030
- IfExpeditionHas Variable: expedition_receives_artifacts_as_gifts_variableThen
- The Expedition brought back gifts and artifacts:
- Add prestige: Expeditionvar:expedition_receives_artifacts_as_gifts_variableMultiply
510
- IfExpeditionThenCapitalCreate art: Type:
work_of_art_type:regalia· Artist: Target leaderQuality- Value: 50
- Add
- Value: Expeditionvar:expedition_receives_artifacts_as_gifts_variable
- Multiply
1020
- Max: 50
- IfExpeditionHas Variable: healer_locationSet by one ofThen
- A native healer joins our court when the Expedition returns
- Create character: Culture: Healer culture · Religion: Healer religion · Birth location: Expeditionvar:healer_locationAge
3560
- New healerGains Witch Doctor permanently
- End expedition: Expedition
Exact script
Grants 2
Triggered by 1
- Search for the Sierra de la PlataOn reaching a waypoint
Scripting 4
Uses 2
- change_gold_effectscale = 8Option
- grant_seven_cities_expedition_loot_effectOption
References 2
type = country_event
title = seven_cities_sierra.3.title The Mountain of Silver
desc = seven_cities_sierra.3.desc The country the legend described is real, and the column has found it. There is a mountain here, broken open in three places, the silver ore at the surface in seams a hand thick, the assayer reporting an ore grade above anything previously documented in the Indies. The Chicha lords who control the foothills are willing to receive an embassy; their interest is in iron tools and Spanish horses, not in being conquered. The treaty can be negotiated. The mountain is open. Target Leader sends three riders to the coast with samples sealed in lead boxes. The crown will not need much convincing.
historical_info = seven_cities_sierra.3.historical_info The Potosi silver mountain, the actual mountain that the Sierra de la Plata legend was conflated with in retrospect, was not discovered by a Spanish expedition acting on the legend; it was discovered in 1545 by an indigenous miner whose name varies in the sources, who reported its existence to the Spanish authorities in Cuzco. The mountain produced more silver than any other site in the world for nearly two centuries and became the bullion engine of the early modern global economy. The legend, in this sense, was true; the legend just had the geography slightly wrong.
outcome = positive
location_backdrop = {
backdrop_preset = backdrop_wilderness_landing
}
trigger = {
scope:expedition = {
exists = expedition_leader
}
}