Crusader Kings III has always had poetry – some romantic paths would even adjust its quality to the skill of your pursuer – but the game is about to go Everything in adding it, adding it as a character trait, and even creating a generator that will write your ruler’s musings for you.
The game’s upcoming 1.3 patch will add a few new features like a more brutal and impactful winter (at least in certain regions), but this poetry stuff really captured my heart. If you get the trait of ‘poet’ as a ruler, you can create your own literary masterpieces by choosing a theme (romance, legacy, struggle, etc.) before you have any information entered into a poetry machine
Once we know the theme and topic (if any), we can input that into custom localization functions that randomize a verse. At the moment we have both intro and outro features for each theme, as well as title generation, allowing us to generate songs between two and four lines in length plus title, although I hope to expand these in the future.
The results are quite good! Here are a few examples from Paradox:
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Poetry is not only used for idle pursuits. Sometimes it can be used in … dark conditions.
The update should come soon.