
RULE PEASANTS (like a boss) COLLECT TAXES (like a boss) LOSE A JOUST (like a boss) GET THE POX (like a boss) They're also about to drop their third mixtape under the family motto, "No Doubt". House Lincoln, meanwhile, are currently running Essex (East Seaxe, which here also covers London, and much of modern Middlesex and Berkshire, and pronounced "east sex", to the delight of schoolkids in all three) rather than Lincoln. Also ran: “He Started It” and “It’s Not Fair” Send me an emissary, yeah? The Oyo crew will hit 'em back for you.


I take it back, that's well out of order. Their dynasty head is, unsurprisingly, a 9 year old child. House Eóganacht-Raithlind, another Irish dynasty clinging to the corner of Munster, take both the Still Bitter About It and Most Likely To Abuse A Loophole awards with their words: "None Shall Freely Attack A Disarmed Man". Remember that guy from 500 years ago? He was great. Not every starting character in CK3 is based on a real one, but an impressive number of them are. I don't know medieval Irish history remotely well enough to tell, but this looks like a reference to Énnae. Hovering over the name reveals it to mean Chieftain Énna of Leinster. Inevitably anglicised as Chinslag, they win the Actually Quite Good award for their motto, "Remember The Death Of Énna". Kicking off with the boring awards so we still get the latecomers, it's House Cheinnselaig.

And yet, they have no independent body to evaluate the best ones and give them appropriate awards. And that's when I noticed something about all the AI dynasties. Sometimes I like to pause and scroll around the world to see how it's doing while I was busy taking Yorubaland to the regionals. When you're a small realm, or one squished into a corner like Ireland or Kham, you can spend the entire game without proof that most of the world even exists. One of the strange things about Crusader Kings 3 is that the sheer size of the world means that even the mightiest empire will still operate in perhaps a quarter of the map at most.
