8/6/2016 9:58:39 PM by
cheesymaid
(Edited: 8/6/2016 10:41:49 PM)
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I've started a Crusader Kings 2-Game of Thrones mod game during Robert Baratheon's rebellion against the Mad King, Aerys Targaryen.
As my favored Great House, i am playing Lord Paramount Tywin Lannister of Casterly Rock. Many of the other Lords Paramount have joined in Robert's fight to unseat the Targaryens after the murder of Eddard Stark's brother Branden, and Prince Rhaegar's "kidnapping" of Lyanna Stark.
House Lannister has yet to declare a side at the start of the game. King Aerys shrewdly chose Tywin's son Jaime to serve on the Kingsguard, thus having a valuable hostage in King's Landing and messing with the Lannister inheritance. Tywin's current heir is the malformed child, Tyrion. I would like to find a different heir, perhaps even Cersei, who is 17 at the start of the game.
Near the start of the rebellion, the Mad King is slain by Lord Commander Barristan Selmy of the King's Guard! A shock! I've never seen that happen in the game before. I don't know what happened to Ser Barristan at that point... but the new commander is Gerold Hightower, a southern Reachman known as the White Bull. And of course, the new King is Rhaegar Targaryen, first of his name.
This doesn't cancel Robert's war against the Targaryens, and the Lannisters remain outside the conflict.
Lord Tywin makes a move on one of his cousins, Marissa Lannister (a younger sister of Tywin's dead wife, Joanna). It doesn't work, though. When Lord Paramount Hoster Tully asks Tywin (as head of House Lannister) to marry Marissa, of course i say "No". It would cause dangerous inheritance issues in the next generation, of course!
Then i get word that Cersei has a bastard son... with her twin brother Jaime. Damnit. I haven't even married her off yet...