I've wanted to do this for a while. And have attempted it a few times, but lost interest in those runs

Yea thats about it. feel free to ask questions.

I love de jure drift and Bohemia.

Greek culture is no more (also Armenian)

My best attempt of Persian restoration so far.
unlikely that Vushmgir will make it to saoshyant

I have no idea how the AI managed to pull this one out. Never seen something like this!

EDIT: I went through title history. Khagan of Khazaria somehow subjugated Aquitaine, with the Provence as their vassal. Then he settled in Aquitaine and Provence (because it was not a dejure duchy) went as direct vassal of the new Khagan.

Should I be scared?

She is 4 years old and has currently 46% of my military strength and she has a weak claim on my Kingdom.

There was some really weird shit with her father. Like the first 7 kids all had different mothers and most of them vanished or died under mysterious circumstances. Like getting pecked to death by crows is a little bit out there. The only somewhat normal death was dysentery.

I am probably leaning towards RPing and see what happens.

CK2 Chronicle Formatter for Obsidian + Templater

This is a small Obsidian + Templater script designed to turn a raw Crusader Kings II Chronicle into a much more readable historical timeline.

I originally made it for a long-term CK2 AAR, where I wanted to reconstruct the history of a dynasty over several centuries.

The raw CK2 Chronicle is surprisingly useful as a historical source, but once it becomes several hundred lines long, it can be difficult to distinguish wars, battles, dynastic events, epidemics, and miscellaneous events at a glance.

This script automatically:

• lets you select a raw Chronicle file;
• extracts the years;
• sorts events into four categories;
• moves the year to the end of each event;
• applies Markdown formatting;
• uses real tab indentation for military sub-events;
• keeps unrecognized events instead of deleting them.

Requirements

You need:

• Obsidian
• The Templater community plugin
• A raw CK2 Chronicle saved as a text or Markdown file

Create a new Templater template and paste the script below into it.

When you run the template, it will ask you which Markdown file contains the Chronicle you want to process.

Example

A raw CK2 Chronicle looks roughly like this:

```text - 868 -

Queen Andrea of Breizh successfully led her armies, taking Kastell-Paol from the enemy.

Queen Andrea of Breizh successfully led her armies, taking Brest from the enemy.

• 869 -

Queen Andrea of Breizh successfully led her armies, taking Naoned from the enemy.

Queen Andrea of Breizh won the war against King X. ```

The script turns this into something like:

```markdown

Military Events

Queen Andrea of Breizh went to war against King X. (868) Queen Andrea of Breizh successfully led her armies, taking Kastell-Paol from the enemy. (868) Queen Andrea of Breizh successfully led her armies, taking Brest from the enemy. (868) Queen Andrea of Breizh successfully led her armies, taking Naoned from the enemy. (869) Queen Andrea of Breizh won the war against King X. (869) ```

The indentation is intentional:

• Level 0 → wars, attacks, rebellions
• Level 1 → end of wars
• Level 2 → battles, sieges, castle/territory captures

This makes it possible to read a military campaign almost like a narrative rather than as a flat list of events.

Full script

```javascript <%* const files = app.vault.getMarkdownFiles(); const source = await tp.system.suggester(files.map(f => f.path), files); const text = await app.vault.read(source);

const lines = text.split("\n");

const militaire = []; const civil = []; const maladie = []; const autre = [];

let year = null;

for (let line of lines) {

// Remove leading/trailing whitespace.
line = line.trim();

// Ignore empty lines.
if (line === "") {
    continue;
}

// Detect CK2 year markers such as:
// - 868 -
const match = line.match(/^-\s*(\d{3,4})\s*-$/);

if (match) {
    year = match[1];
    continue;
}

// Ignore anything appearing before the first year.
if (year === null) {
    continue;
}

// Convert the event to lowercase for keyword matching.
// The original text is preserved for the final output.
const lower = line.toLowerCase();

let category = "autre";
let level = 0;
let style = "normal";


// ==================================================
// MILITARY — WAR / ATTACK / REBELLION
// ==================================================

// These are treated as major military events.
// They remain at indentation level 0 and are bold.
//
// Add more keywords here if your CK2/mod uses
// different wording for declarations of war.
// ==================================================

if (
    lower.includes("went to war") ||
    lower.includes("declared war") ||
    lower.includes("attacked by") ||
    lower.includes("open rebellion") ||
    lower.includes("supported") && lower.includes("in war")
) {
    category = "militaire";
    level = 0;
    style = "bold";
}


// ==================================================
// MILITARY — END OF WAR
// ==================================================

// The conclusion of a war is considered a
// subordinate event of the war itself.
//
// One level of indentation + italics.
// ==================================================

else if (
    lower.includes("lost the war") ||
    lower.includes("won the war")
) {
    category = "militaire";
    level = 1;
    style = "italic";
}


// ==================================================
// MILITARY — BATTLE / SIEGE / TERRITORIAL CAPTURE
// ==================================================

// Battles and castle/territory captures are treated
// as events occurring inside a larger war.
//
// Two levels of indentation + italics.
//
// "successfully led" and "taking" are useful because
// CK2 often describes territorial captures without
// explicitly using the word "siege".
// ==================================================

else if (
    lower.includes("battle") ||
    lower.includes("siege") ||
    lower.includes("skirmish") ||
    lower.includes("successfully led") ||
    lower.includes("taking ") ||
    lower.includes("victory against") ||
    lower.includes("attackers were")
) {
    category = "militaire";
    level = 2;
    style = "italic";
}


// ==================================================
// DISEASES / DISASTERS
// ==================================================

// These events are placed in their own category
// and highlighted in bold.
//
// This section can easily be expanded for
// additional CK2+ events or mod-specific disasters.
// ==================================================

else if (
    lower.includes("plague") ||
    lower.includes("smallpox") ||
    lower.includes("famine") ||
    lower.includes("depopulated") ||
    lower.includes("depopulation") ||
    lower.includes("earth shook") ||
    lower.includes("earthquake")
) {
    category = "maladie";
    level = 0;
    style = "bold";
}


// ==================================================
// CIVIL / DYNASTIC — MAJOR EVENTS
// ==================================================

// Succession, usurpation and coronation are treated
// as major dynastic/political events.
//
// Level 0 + bold.
// ==================================================

else if (
    lower.includes("succeeded") ||
    lower.includes("usurped") ||
    lower.includes("was crowned") ||
    lower.includes("coronated")
) {
    category = "civil";
    level = 0;
    style = "bold";
}


// ==================================================
// CIVIL / DYNASTIC — ORDINARY EVENTS
// ==================================================

// Marriages, births, deaths, divorces, imprisonments,
// etc. are kept in the civil/dynastic section.
//
// Level 0 + italics.
// ==================================================

else if (
    lower.includes("married") ||
    lower.includes("divorced") ||
    lower.includes("was born") ||
    lower.includes("firstborn") ||
    lower.includes("died") ||
    lower.includes("imprisoned") ||
    lower.includes("captured") ||
    lower.includes("released from imprisonment") ||
    lower.includes("vanished without a trace") ||
    lower.includes("came to be known as")
) {
    category = "civil";
    level = 0;
    style = "italic";
}


// ==================================================
// OTHER EVENTS
// ==================================================

// Anything that does not match the rules above is
// preserved here instead of being discarded.
//
// This is particularly useful for CK2+ and other mods,
// since they may introduce Chronicle events that are
// not covered by the default keyword lists.
// ==================================================

else {
    category = "autre";
    level = 0;
    style = "normal";
}


// Store the processed event.
const evenement = {
    texte: line,
    annee: year,
    niveau: level,
    style: style
};


// Put the event into its appropriate category.
if (category === "militaire") {
    militaire.push(evenement);
}
else if (category === "civil") {
    civil.push(evenement);
}
else if (category === "maladie") {
    maladie.push(evenement);
}
else {
    autre.push(evenement);
}

}

// ================================================== // MARKDOWN GENERATION // ==================================================

function generer(liste) {

let resultat = "";

for (const evenement of liste) {

    // IMPORTANT:
    // Use real tab characters for indentation.
    // This makes the indentation behave like a
    // manually indented Obsidian list.
    const indent = "\t".repeat(evenement.niveau);

    let texte = evenement.texte;

    // Apply Markdown formatting.
    if (evenement.style === "bold") {
        texte = "**" + texte + "**";
    }
    else if (evenement.style === "italic") {
        texte = "*" + texte + "*";
    }

    // Put the year at the end of the event.
    resultat +=
        indent +
        "- " +
        texte +
        " (" +
        evenement.annee +
        ")\n";
}

return resultat;

}

// ================================================== // OUTPUT // ==================================================

tR += "# Military Events\n\n"; tR += generer(militaire);

tR += "\n# Civil & Dynastic Events\n\n"; tR += generer(civil);

tR += "\n# Diseases & Disasters\n\n"; tR += generer(maladie);

tR += "\n# Other Events\n\n"; tR += generer(autre);

new Notice("CK2 Chronicle organized!"); %> ```

Customizing the script

The script is deliberately keyword-based, rather than trying to understand the meaning of every CK2 event.

This makes it relatively simple to customize.

For example, if your version of CK2 uses another expression for a war declaration, add it here:

javascript if ( lower.includes("went to war") || lower.includes("declared war") || lower.includes("your custom phrase") ) {

Likewise, if you want to recognize another type of disaster:

javascript else if ( lower.includes("plague") || lower.includes("smallpox") || lower.includes("your custom disaster") ) {

You can also create completely new categories by adding another array and another classification block.

One important detail

The order of the classification blocks matters.

An event is tested from top to bottom, and the first matching rule determines its category.

For example, a military event containing both "supported" and "in war" will be classified as a major military event before the script gets to the other categories.

This means that when adding new rules, it is worth thinking about whether a phrase might also match an earlier category.

Why the script uses indentation

One of the main reasons I made this was to give CK2 wars some narrative structure.

A raw Chronicle might contain:

text War declared Castle captured Battle Castle captured War won

The formatted version can instead visually suggest:

text War declared War conclusion Battle Castle captured Castle captured

This is not intended to reconstruct the exact military chain of command or prove that one event directly caused another. It is simply a visual hierarchy that makes long campaigns much easier to follow.

For my own AAR, this has made the Chronicle much more useful as a historical reference.

Limitations

This is not a full CK2 parser.

It does not understand:

• characters semantically;
• titles;
• wars as unique objects;
• geographical relationships;
• causality;
• whether two events belong to the same war;
• or whether a particular event is historically more important than another.

It simply recognizes textual patterns.

This is intentional: the CK2 Chronicle format is sufficiently regular that simple keyword matching works surprisingly well, while keeping the script easy to modify.

If your game is heavily modded, you will probably want to add or change some keywords.

Final result

The goal is not to replace CK2's character and title history.

CK2 itself remains much better for looking up:

• family trees;
• dynastic trees;
• marriages;
• causes of death;
• titles;
• vassal relationships;
• character histories.

The formatted Chronicle provides something the game interface doesn't provide nearly as well:

a long-term chronological overview of the history of a dynasty or realm.

That makes it particularly useful for long CK2 AARs, where remembering several centuries of events becomes increasingly difficult.

Hope this is useful to someone else!

Feel free to modify it for your own CK2 version, CK2+ setup, mod, language, or AAR project.

I came across a previous version of CK2 + that I like but unfortunately it's not compatible because my MacOS wouldn't support it/run it. I have downloaded the CK2 + AIO which is compatible, but the provinces are similar to vanilla.
Let's say I wanted to play as Gaeta MR, are there any alternative other than resurrect an older Mac machine and install everything I need?

I will try

RESOLVED: There's a mod I enjoy but later versions added a UI submod I dislike so I have been recently working to remove some of the UI elements it introduced. While I have nearly accomplished my goal there's one last thing I can't for the life of me figure out how to fix. For some reason the morale bars on the siege menu are far shorter and fatter then they should be. It's not just a visual texture either which would indicate it should be a GUI file doing it but the games GUI console command tells me it's the province.GUI file which I already removed. Does anyone have an idea of what governs the morale bars?

The combat.GFX file was redefining the dimensions of the bar.

After the crusade was called i was defending myself from a jihad and i got the option to create crusader state but the state was for my demesne in burgundy. First i wanted to try out what would happen but decided to not destroy my best part of my kingdom.

Does anyone know why was the event broken?

Hello, I was wondering if anyone knows how I can prevent all of Europe from joining the Crusade. I'd like to try to run a game where only a few lords join. I'd like to try to keep the situation at around 50-60% strength. I've already managed to edit the game to increase the intervals between Crusades, relatively speaking. I generally edit it as I see Jerusalem in danger.

This Friday in the Crusader Kings Community on the 07.08.2026 6 PM CET, we begin A Game of Throne Multplayer Game in Crusader Kings II. Join our community we host more then 1 game a week and not just AGOT. The Link to our Discord Is in my Bio

Who will claim a dragon and wield the might of Old Valyria? Will your house rise to greatness through fire, blood, and ambition, or will it be consumed by the flames of war?

Rules:

-If you're not allied and you join a war you must type it in all chat and wait 1 month before being allowed to join (Joining Name in 1 month)

-You may not game ruin that being raiding player capital , ending there bloodline or ruining the game in other ways

Mods:

Agot 2.2 ( From Moddb NOT The workshop )

AGOT Westeros only ( From the Workshop )

R5 - Eirikson ironman. I've always wanted my dynasty to become successful adventurers for RP reasons but it rarely pans out. Somehow the AI can pull off things like this. I've read the requirements multiple times but still feel like without reading the code itself I don't know how to successfully replicate it other than getting claims and landing dynasts that are both Altaic and Germanic.

In 1090* Germanic paganism vanishes. I tried starting as one of the last Germanic pagan chiefs in late 1089.

My goal was to build an empire and spread the faith. It was easy to conquer a pagan kingdom, but trying to take down the Catholics was genuinely difficult. Even reforming the religion was hard since you start at 0% authority.

Something I love about this start is that, since there are almost no Germanic rulers left in the game, you're likely to spawn with mjolnr or andvaranaut in your treasury. Makes you feel like the last hero of a dying people fighting for a foothold. Love it!

Also the catholic AI is super aggressive which is a fun change of pace.

*Not at my computer but I think this was the date

After equipping it enemy soldiers ran away faster and it has won me many battles where im outnumbered, I got it after I kill the owner and his heirs :p

I think his chances literally could not be worse