Crusader Kings III begins to write very poetically

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Crusader Kings III has always had poetry – some romances will even adjust the quality of it depending on the skill of your pursuer – but the game is about to go all in on it, add it as a character trait and even create a generator that will write your rulers’ thoughts for you.

The upcoming 1.3 patch of the game adds some new features, such as a more brutal and effective winter (at least in some regions), but this poetry really caught my heart. If you have the ‘poet’ quality as a ruler, you can create your own literary masterpieces, choose a theme (romance, legacy, strife, etc.) before you get information fed into a poetry machine:

Once we know the theme and topic (if any), we can apply it in custom location features that make a couplet random. At the moment we have both intro and outro functions for each theme, as well as title generation, which enables us to generate ditits between two and four lines plus title, although I hope to expand it in the future.

The results are pretty good! Here are some examples that Paradox provides:

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