Crusader Kings III is very much starting to write poetry

Crusader Kings III has always had poetry – some romantic ways would adjust its quality according to the ability of your follower – but the game is on its way all in on it, adding it as a character trait and even creating a generator that will write the leader’s meditations for you.

The next patch 1.3 of the game adds some new features, such as a more brutal and impactful winter (at least in some regions), but these things of poetry really captured my heart. If you receive the trait of “poet” as a leader, you will be able to create your own literary masterpieces, choosing a theme (romance, heritage, quarrel, etc.) before you have information. fed into a poetry apparatus:

Once we know the topic and subject (if any), we can feed it into custom location functions that randomize a couplet. We currently have both introductory and secondary functions for each theme, as well as title generation, allowing us to generate letters between two and four lines in length plus title, although I hope to expand on them in the future.

The results are pretty good! Here are some examples of paradox: