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Elder Kings II v.0.15.0.1 "Arnand the Fox" (April 7th, 2025)

New:

Partial integration of the Alternate Arms submod:

New CoA emblems for the Nords / Akaviri / Orcs / Goblins / Nedes / Ayleids
New coats of arms for Skyrim titles (county through empire)
New generated CoA designs for Nords, Akaviri, Orcs, and Goblins
Updated colors and emblems for CoA generation for Imperials, Nords, Reachmen, Akaviri, Orcs, and Goblins
Updated coats of arms for several dynasties, houses, and titles across Tamriel

Other CoA:

New dynamic coats of arms for the kingdom of the Reach and the duchy of Silgrad

Other:

New tradition for Etarani - "Children of the King"
Added a Challenge House Head interaction for cultures and faiths that can duel for title claims
Added a few new historic and mythological mount names
One travel event related to the skeever pet story
Added new EK specific "Difficulties" listed when selecting a character at game start (like "No player heir", "Cannot have children" etc from vanilla)
MVP Russian localization compatch to EK2 0.15.1
Added Russian translation to most of the travel events

Changes

Valenwood:

Renamed Boiche to Morathi, Cyroboiche to Cyrobosmer and Salaboiche to Salabosmer
Changed ethos for bosmer cultures. Morathi (old boiche) is now communal instead of spiritual, cyrobosmer is egalitarian instead of bellicose, etarani is communal instead of courtly
Removed boiche/morathi parent from all bosmer cultures. Added new culture history for all of them, now it links to heritage.
Reworked Salabosmer culture, removed pirate tradition, replaced it with urban and maritime traditions
Reworked Cyrobosmer culture, removed urban and maritime traditions, replaced with "swords for hire"
Removed ruling caste from Etarani (replaced with core) and cutthroat politics (also replaced with core). Added new tradition - state ransoms.
Cut Bosmer heritage text in half
Valenwood terrain can now build Forest Fort buildings instead of Watchtowers
Reduced faith hostility between faiths with the Aedra and Green Pact pantheons by 15
Green Pact followers will no longer get a bad nickname because of cannibalism

Court Positions:

Added court position tasks to our court positions
Replaced the Instruct Court Mage interaction with a court position task
Clan Mother court position is now unlocked by simply being Khajiiti heritage, not by tradition
Court Mages, Royal Housecarls and Shadowscales are now considered powerful agents
Prettied up some court position requirements

Legion:

Vampires, lycans necromancers and undead can no longer join the Imperial Legion if the Legion holder sees them as criminals
Mindless characters such as undead can no longer join the Legion
Locked the Akolouthos (Grand Marshal in EK) court position behind the Imperial Legacy tradition

Admin:

Gave Alinor Limited Administration bureaucracy law and War Declaration Restricted provincial war law, curbing their world conquest a bit
Prevented some cases of AI admin realms changing all of their vassals into admin gov, regardless of their old type
Blocked demanding military order, academy and hierocracy vassals to become admin

Localisation:

Renamed "Orsimer" heritage to "Orcish"
Replaced most mentions of Orsimer with Orcs
New Orcish heritage text
New Mountain Orc text
Shortened Malapiit culture, Nord heritage and Argonian heritage descriptions
Renamed Nibenu namelist from "Old Nibenese" to "Nibenu"

Other:

Restored the old vanilla way to display the final mastery perk of lifestyle trees. This makes it so EK magic lifestyles don't only display an empty trait instead of listing its effects
Added a character flag to select characters to prevent faith conversion
Disabled Deqhan (Decentralised Taxes) tax jurisdiction
Slighty nerfed the Staff of Worms buff for the Raise Undead Horde spell
Some discriminating nicknames will be handed out more sensibly
Moved the bonemiser nickname into the special necromancy nickname event
Fornication is no longer considered by the adultery crime doctrines
Equipping a dragon priest mask now makes you wear a hood
Trinimac faiths now dislike Lorkhan

Fixes:

Fixed Blood Price event not wounding prisoners in some cases
Fixed Leki's Blade SB being completely unavailable due to no longer being a holy site. It is now valid for Yokudan religions
Fixed "low fertility" requirement in cloning decision requiring that you had less than 1000% fertility instead of 10%
Fixed inheritance of lifespan and other bloodline traits for clones
Fixed Secure the Heartlands decision also counting unlanded domiciles as holding land in the Heartlands
Fixed Khajiit II and Khajiit III ethnicities not being visible in Ruler Designer
Fixed Imga II and Imga I ethnicities being listed in the wrong order in Ruler Designer
Fixed Landless camps seeing a lot of succession types they cannot use anyway, which broke the GUI window
Fixed feudal, autocratic and admin gov not being able to hold Hist holdings
Courtiers granted Hist holdings will now become theocracies
Baron tier vassals holdings Hist holdings will now properly be theocracy gov
Fixed event chain to become a necromancer not working for landless characters
Fixed characters with infamous traits (vampire, lycan, etc.) sometime being unable to host grand activities
Fixed the AI casting "Burden" as a benevolent spell
Fixed Akolouthos (Grand Marshal) spawning Tsaesci culture Legionaires
Fixed Repurpose Knowledge decision being available when busy
Fixed Repurpose Knowledge decision not accounting for Wanderer lifestyle
Fixed Seize Realm scheme not working against autocratic realms
Fixed AI Conquerors being very unlikely to spawn (edits to their frequency/distribution in EK pending player feedback)
Fixed Glacial Tundra terrain not having any valid fort level building
Fixed game start event for Ruler Designer Dwemer not reviving them when starting as landed
Fixed applying Cultural or Religious rights for non-feudal vassals having no effect
Fixed some issues where various governments couldn't gain cultural or religious protection when swearing fealty
Fixed some issues with skeleton models
Fixed a texture issue with fur loincloth clothing used by goblins, wood elves and argonians
Fixed said contract rights not being visible when interacting with republic and theocracy vassals
Fixed Green Pact being able to build Forestry buildings after all
Plugged our AI war values into admin cbs
Fixed Coin and Sword tradition not being visible in the core traditions list
Fixed many decisions being unavailable for admin gov
Added new trigger for Cyrodilic empire, consisting out of e_tamriel, e_cyrodilic_potentate and e_cyrodiil. Previously some places were missing e_tamriel
Fixed missing pavillion art for Ilniviri and Westholder laamps
Fixed travel events being stuck for 90 days in multiplayer
Corrected governments in bookmarks
Fixed county level academies not using the academy banner shape
Disabled events with islamic references (e.g. vassal flogging)
Removed islamic references in sinful tax collector event (inshallah)
Fixed broken "Coldwind" mount name
Fixed pet skeever modifiers not being properly removed
Fixed a message claiming that a camp follower gained a new nickname when in fact they did not
Fixed the secret lycan laamp starting without a lycan secret
Alik'r Desert (vanilla Sahara) modifiers should now be applied to the whole desert, not only to the coastal regions
Fixed some missing or faulty localisation

Known Issues:

Some textures display incorrectly
Some tooltips are too large to click the button beneath them (Temporary fix: enable tooltip delay in settings)
White Gold court appears when it shouldn't

Elder Kings II v.0.15.0 "Arnand the Fox" (March 22th, 2025)

New:

-Government:

Added religious tolerance law for Administrative realms
Enabled co-emperors for Cyrodiil and Potentate, renamed co-emperor to High Chancellor
Added noble family titles for Chorak and Lex dynasties, made Potentate and Heartlands admin in history files
Imperial Legacy tradition now unlocks adopting Administrative Government as a king
Ceremoniarchy government has been replaced with Administrative. Without DLC, Alinor is now feudal
Adapted formerly Ceremoniarchy mechanics (Praxis, succession laws, various government decisions) to work alongside both Admin and Feudal, depending on DLC
Reverted Feudal government to for the most part work like in vanilla
Autocracy government is now for the most part vanilla Clan, with tax but without house unity
Added two types of cultural tax types, Moonsugar for Khajiit and Bardmont Prefects for cultures with Imperial Legacy
Added icons to our governments

-Knahaten:

Adds 1 Knahaten-related event to Black Marsh
Adds Altmeri Relief for Elsweyr eventline (4 events)
Adds 3 Knahaten-related events to Elsweyr, revolving around the Stricken
Adds the Stricken trait - survivors of the Knahaten, who aren't infectious but still marked by the disease
Adds 2 Knahaten-related events to Hammerfell (Systres & Alikr)
Adds 2 Gwylim Broadcasts, one about a race dying from the Knahaten, another about the Knahaten leaving Elsweyr after prolonged infection
Knahaten Modifier Icon, added to some Knahaten related modifiers

-Magic:

Adds the Study Self-Replication and Clone Myself decisions, allowing the creation of clones
Cloning is unlocked by the final Restoration lifestyle perk
Mage characters at game start will now start with half their magicka pool filled
Added Ward, a new tier three Alteration ritual which prevents being targeted by hostile spells
Added texticon for Warded
Added option for Repurpose Knowledge decision to simply remove a perk point
Magic and Dark Arts perks now display the effects of the spells and rituals they unlock
Added Arcane Education option for the Visit University activity, with 17 new events
Added two new magic Special Buildings: Tel Aruhn Tower and College of Sapiarchs
Added spellbook artifacts
Added four new outcomes for the Experimentalist stress relief events
Added magic-focused Admin dynasty house specialization
Added icons explaining how magical ability unlocks various event options

-Legends:

Added legends for forming important titles like Tamriel, Reach, Aldmeri Dominion etc
Added legends for following dynasties: Rielle, Deleyn, Nisewan, Brae, Camoran, Auriel, Xarxesar, Rilis, Phynastris, Syrabanis
Added holy legend for followers of Sixth House
Added holy legend for nedic-nordics with capital in Bangkorai region

-Valenwood:

Added Axes Among the Woods core cultural tradition to Wood Orcs, replacing Practiced Pirates
Added Orc Headhunter MaA for Wood Orcs
Added The Bluff and Stronghold of Barkbite special buildings
Added Graht-Manors building as a replacement for Manor Houses for Green Pact followers within Valenwood
Added Pact Provisions building as replacement for Farms & Fields for Green Pact followers within Valenwood
Added starting event for Queen Nilwen of Eldenroot
Added seven new Special Buildings: Rootwater Grove, Woodheart Sewers, Velyn Lighthouse, Gil Var Delle Ruins, Starstone Lane, Arenthia Citadel, Redfur Trading Post

-Cyrodiil:

Added nine new Special Buildings: Ontus Quarry, Weatherleah Hunting Lodge, Gottlesfont Priory, Skingrad Vineyards, Abbey Bazaar of Zenithar, Fort Redmane, Imperial Marketplace, Imperial Sewers, The Arboretum
Added new CB to dismantle the Bridges of Leyawiin, reworked related decisions some
Added new stages to Garlas Agea and Chapel of Arkay SBs Redguards:
Changed faith setup for Hammerfell. Ruptga is now the primary faith of both Crowns and Forebears. Redguard Creed is now only used in certain Cyrodiil adjacent areas and Hew's Bane
Split the Satakal faith into two: the new Satakal faith of the Alik'r and the old (renamed to) Yoku Spirits for Yokudans
Added new Satakal monolatrism for Satakal faith
Yoku pantheon now also includes Leki and HoonDing patrons (icons WIP)
Added new Ra Gada pantheon for Ruptga faith, consisting of Ruptga, Morwha, Onsi, Diagna, Leki, HoonDing, Arkay, Kynareth and Zenithar
Added new tenet "Ancestral Starstones", used by Ruptga, Satakal, Yoku, Herd-Mother and Redguard Creed
Added Oracles of Tall Papa Head of Faith to Ruptga

-Culture:

Added new core cultural tradition to Balfieri, "Adamantine Stewards", Dremora, "Daedric Oath-bonds" and Alik'r "Air and Sand"
New cultural MaA for Goblins and Imga, they now follow the same setup as Khajiit and Argonians
New culture history loc for Corelanya
One new cultural name for Kothringi, new CNs for various Valenwood titles

-Faith:

Added 22 unique formable holy orders
Added 16 generic names for Daedric holy orders
Added Ontus as new Holy Site for Iron Oaths

-Art:

Added holding illustrations for the Magyar Holding Set (used by Colovians), made by Scratch / MHG
New illustrations for Goblin MaA
Added new background illustration for Ashlanders
Becoming a lycan now gives light gold eyes and more body hair
Updated the visuals for vampiric eyes

-Coat of Arms:

Added three designs for Ayleid CoA templates
Added three designs for Dwemer CoA templates
Added Nedic CoA variants for Horwalli and Kothringi
Added three new CoA patterns, 13 new emblems
Added 23 Dwemer themed emblems
Added dynamic Dwemer CoA to high kingdoms of Skyrim and Hammerfell
Head of faith and holy order CoA now generate with appropriate emblems
Adjusted the CoAs of Summerset duchies to give each a unique color scheme, rather than inheriting the colors of their de jure kingdom
Overhauled the random colors of Altmeri and Balfieri CoA templates / added two new possible background patterns for generated Altmer CoA
Added new title CoA for counties in Yokuda and Black Marsh, as well as certain baronies across Tamriel
Added new CoA templates for Hist holdings, Altmer baronies and Divines/Tribunal temples

-Events:

Added event chain for Cazuras, heir to the Potentate, to flee Cyrodiil as a LAAMP should the Potenate start losing their war with Attrebus
Added event chain depicting the Kvatch Bread Riots
8 new travel events
2 new murder events when targeting undead targets
Added ruler designer cultural revival event for Atmoran culture
Added ruler designer cultural revival events when starting as an adventurer

-Other:

Added ~30 LAAMPs at game start, spread across the 2E 440 and 450 dates
New travel Points of Interest for intrigue, magic and dark arts, reworked some existing PoIs to use these
Negative year dates now display ME (Merethic Era)
Added decision to choose the capital of Skyrim
Added new cultural triggered desc for all de jure empire reunification events
Added new Sibyl of Dibella trait, replacing the existing modifer + devoted trait combo
Added new event from when a travelling Sibyl enters your court
Added decision to unite the Barsaebic Ayleids and form the high kingdom of Barsaebica
Added decision to restore the Nedic Confederation high kingdom
Added Lyranth as a rare summonable Dremora
Characters that revive their culture through the ruler designer start event, now gain a full court of their culture+faith
Enabled starting event for Yashnag
Court Mages are now named Clever Men for Nords
Court Mages are now named Field Mages for adventurers
Lorekeepers are now named Vateshran for Reachfolk
Edited some court position effects
Russian localization files updated
Various history additions

Changes:

-Landless:

Adapted the Crimeboss and Plunderer perk trees to work for adventuers
Allowed landless mages to cast spells
Removed our old "Abstain from Elections" decision, implemented the Gallivanter trait instead
Adventurer Contracts renamed to Quests

-Crisis Factions:

Streamlined the design of the crisis factions down to a single crisis faction, just as how vanilla has one populist faction instead of a different one for each faith/culture combo
Added crisis faction subtypes for vampires, necromancers (replacing current undead faction), lycanthropes, daedra
Added game rules to control crisis factions

-Redguards:

Replaced Maritime Mercantilism and Quarrelsome traditions with Seafarers and Martial Admiration for Forebears
Replaced Dryland Dwellers, Quarrelsome and Staunch Traditionalists traditions with City Keepers, Seafarers and Ruling Caste for Crowns
Replaced Dryland Dwellers and Forebear core with City Keepers and Crown core for Abeceans
Reworked Sword-Meeting cultural tradition, and removed it from Horsefolk and Alik'r
Way of the Sword MaA has been cut
Expanded Crown core – added legalism parameters to it
Reworked Forebear core
Switched Sentinel to Forebear culture
e_hammerfell is now called "Republic of Hammerfell" when admin government
Most description snippets related to Redguard and Yokudan culture rewritten
The Redguard Pantheon of Redguard Creed now consists of Akatosh, Arkay, Kynareth, Zenithar, Morwha, Onsi, Ruptga and Reman
Rewritten descriptions of all Redguard/Yokudan faiths, as well as Yokudan patrons
Various doctrine setup changes for Yokudan/Redguard faiths
Various edits to faith localisation
Redguard Creed and Ruptga now have Heritage Identity instead of Cultural, Yoku gains Cultural Identity
Cut Leki's Blade Holy Site, added Sutch as HS to Redguard Creed, and Mount Hattu and Asil Yelir to Yoku

-Culture:

Atmoran culture is now Migratory
AI rulers of dead cultures revivable by event who are setup using ruler designer will now always choose to revive their culture
Killed off a lot of Men-of-Kreath characters who were generated as part of Lamae Bal's court at game start. Gave Lamae a preset priest.
Cut Men-of-Karth culture, which was currently unused and impossible to revive anyway
Cut Nede culture, which was currently unused and impossible to revive anyway
Commented out Jaegi culture, which is currently unused and impossible to revive anyway
Assigned Chimer as parent culture to Dunmeri cultures, updated culture history origin loc to match this
Revived dead cultures now adopt the language of the culture that revived them (nobody just suddenly relearned the lost Rontha language after all!)
Cut some confusing tooltips from nativity region innovations, instead explaining how regions are gained and directing you to see the nativity regions map mode
Changed colours of several nativity regions to increase contrast to neighbouring ones, increasing visibility/accessibility
Combined the Tenmar and Pellitine nativity regions
Moved the duchies of Ontus and Dirich from the Gold Coast nativity region to Colovian Highlands, duchy of Shardrock to West Weald region
Streamlined scripts checking for Pariah or Daedric Race status for interactions, war and more
Reachfolk and Bosmer are now only specially tolerant of Orc heritage Pariahs, not Pariahs in general
Decision to Reintegrate Orsinium will no longer automatically assume Orsinium was founded by Mountain Orcs, instead checking the actual culture of Orsinium's holder
Simplified acceptance modifiers for activity guests in relation to Pariahs a little, as it would be too complicated to maintain
Enabled breweries for Nord cultures
Replaced Eye for an Eye and Stand and Fight traditions with Bloodport and Deep Strike for Dremora
Pellitinian is now Egalitation ethos, not Spiritual
Replaced Priest Kings and Jungle Warriors traditions with City Keepers, Jungle Dwellers and Maritime Mercantilism for Pellitinian
Reworked Moonsugar Plantations tradition
Speaker court position reworked to Clan-Mother
Cut existing Clan-Mother interaction and innovation, instead unlocking this through traditions
Killed all the camels in Anequina
Consolidated the various Isolationist cultural parameters into one to reduce parameter bloat in traditions, same with Sorcerer Kings
Added modifiers to encourage AI to learn various languages
Bjoule now speak Bretic, not Old Bretic; Salaboiche now speak Bosmeris, not Altmeris; Cyroboice now speak Cyrodilic, not Bosmeris
Edited some cultural tradition setups

-Faith:

Reviewed effects of 32 patron traits, increasing variety and balancing them better
Enabled clerical marriage for Two Moons, limited Mane marrying in a different way
High Velothi faith now use the Mummification burial doctrine
Burial doctrine now affect the background of dead characters
Replaced the faith map mode icon with the symbol of the Eight Divines
Moved Worm Cult Holy Site from Falkreath to Sancre Tor
Replaced Tax Non-Believers tenet with Prosperity Worship for Adamantine
Replaced Ascetism tenet with Exalted Heroism for Reman Mysteries
Reworked Reman Mysteries and Nord Pantheon doctrines somewhat
Rewritten Nord Pantheon description
Reworked Dawn Court faith/god loc somewhat
Yokudan religion renamed to Spirits of Yokuda

-Magic:

Mend Wound spell now heals both Brutally Mauled and the Infected Wound modifier
Mend Wound spell now cannot be cast if the target has no mendable wounds
Changed Fortify Walls spell into Fortify Buildings with more economic then martial effects
Renamed Mind Mending spell to Mind Bending
Prettied up Repurpose Knowledge decision requirements
Unleash Lesser Daedra spell renamed to Unleash Daedric Horde, now triggers a Daedric Invasion type Crisis Faction
Casting Restless Dead or Unleash Daedric Horde now also gives negative opinion with the top liege of the target county as well as the local liege
Turned Herbalist into a tiered trait that can be increased into Alchemy (later to be expanded upon)
Removed the mages/spellblades max size -2 innovations that were causing issues with hybrid cultures, and moved those MaA to cultural traditions instead
Arcane court type makes arcana education easier to access
The third Arcane Blood dynasty legacy perk now allows you to specialise your dynasty within a school of magic

-Other:

Reworked birthsign traits for greater variety and more interesting effects
Added Dwemer names for birthsigns
Furstock and birthsign traits will now be listed as such in their trait type
Enabled Hist holdings as a valid holding type for Feudal, Autocratic and Theocracy. Hist holders will by default be Theocratic.
Changed map colour of the Pellitine high kingdom
Streamlined effects to split and reunite empire tier de jure titles (Skyrim, Cyrodiil, Elsweyr)
Streamlined effects of some de jure altering decisions (Nordic Empire, Reach)
Added legitimacy to all playable EK governments
Nerfed starting legitimacy and gain rate for pirates
Halved piety gain penalty from refusing to become Sibyl
Reworked lifespan trait inheritance chances a little
Secret traits like Secret Vampire are no longer equated with its disguise trait, allowing them to stack
Created undead characters now link to their "original" character, similar to reincarnation
Relocalised Cannibal for Green Pact faiths into Meat Mandate
Disabled elderly_health as this doesn't play nice with our age setup
Made titular abbeys de jure vassals of Cyrodiilic kingdoms/high kingdoms
Empire formation decisions now copy title history from previous title
Hegemony legacy can now be unlocked after completing certain major decisions
Removed Hegemon legacy unlock from first Direnni Hegemony decision, now it's only unlocked with second one
Reduced some increased requirements for legends down closer to vanilla again
Disabled Orchards for Green Pact followers within Valenwood
Disabled Forestry for Green Pact followers within Valenwood
Disabled duchy drift decision from legend because it breaks empire reunification and great houses
Mai'q encounter is now a travel event, instead of a yearly event
Further tweaks to Knahaten spread speed & infection rate
Further tweaks to area of Elsweyr that is longer affected by the Knahaten
Removed "Organic" Knahaten/Black Death Occurence (vanilla) Game Rule, because it actually doesn't do anything
Refactored Direnni Hegemony decision a little
Changed prestige level requirements for some legends
Populist factions can no longer force a ruler to embrace a different heritage culture
Rebalanced some Valenwood SBs
Rebalanced some Cyrodiil SBs
Existing Dwemer CoA have either received an update or overhaul with the new emblems
The leader of the Aldmeri Dominion is titled Aran(a) Aldmeri, changed from Eagle Primarch
Reworked various titles for rulers and religious characters, particularly for Redguards
Rewritten some Important Character descriptions
Rewritten building descriptions for Mage Towers and various Special Buildings
Various history edits and changes

Fixes:

Fixed some patron traits following inconsistent naming conventions
Added a race compatibility check to some effects that could generate spouses for barons and courtiers
Cut various commented out and unused code
Gave Argonian cultural names to all Argonian cultures, not just Hleel
Fixed Repurpose Knowledge decision not properly removing excess Diplomacy perk points
Fixed one Repurpose Knowledge option claiming it was available due to having high Stewardship skill
Fixed broken important action notification from having available Dark Arts perk points
Fixed Academies not being upgradeable for Argonians
Fixed a crash caused by Orc succession - hopefully
Fixed Gaenor taking away non existing gold, plunging realms into serious debt
Fixed Glamour ritual not concealing Disfigured
Fixed "Integrate Systres" decision being available after forming the Kingdom of the Isles
Fixed various missing loc strings
Fixed assorted errors, typos and minor bugs

Known Issues:

Some textures display incorrectly
Some tooltips are too large to click the button beneath them (Temporary fix: enable tooltip delay in settings)

Elder Kings II v.0.14a 'The Crimson Ship'(August 4th, 2024)

Changes:

Modified the pool management effect for wanderers to include a chance that nothing happens. The higher the lifespan of a character, the higher the chance. This somewhat aligns with their reduced lifestyle XP
Capped the number of traits that can be acquired by this effect. A wandering character with 12 or more traits will no longer receive new ones
Added new traits to the effect for greater variation. Wandering characters can now become adventurers, travelers, athletic, disrupted, and skooma drinkers
Blind Argonians and Khajiit will no longer get the clipping blindfold; they get white eyes instead
Re-enabled picking the Warrior Queens tradition
Removed blocker preventing the use of non-hostile province spells without being present in the county, as this didn't work as planned
Added Cultural/Heritage identity requirement to Mystical Birthright Head of Faith (otherwise you'd get Nord Manes etc)
Removed inheritance blocker from Clan-Mother trait

Fixes:

Fixed cultures that died but were revived during the Post-Knahaten events still being considered dead
Fixed tutorial getting soft-locked when being prompted to click on your own character
Fixed wrong type of building for the tutorial
Fixed some remaining vanilla loc strings in tutorial & added EK2 specific tutorial screenshots
Fixed hunt activities invalidating in some cases. Re-enabled hunt event option disabled as a band-aid fix for 0.14
Adjusted some Elsweyr & Black Marsh duchy/county title colors to not be the same on map
Fixed the Council screen not explaining how Feudal councils work
Fixed Medium Illusion Ritual Perk giving the wrong ritual
Fixed characters killed by an elemental spell not showing a killer in the case they died instantly
Fixed Ruler Designer characters randomly gaining extra arcana and Hist faith traits at game start
Fixed missing/faulty vassal contract assigning for some historic Orsimer
Fixed vassals not having vassal contracts if they swapped government due to changing culture
Fixed vassals not having vassal contracts if they swapped government via decision while being unable to alter vassal contracts
Fixed two cases of being given Feudal Government without checking if you qualify
Fixed Magelord Elective not considering Supreme Magus magical education for candidates
Fixed Heavy Infantry being unavailable to cultures of Altmeri heritage
Fixed "Restore Kingdom of Darloc Brae" decision not recognising that you fulfill the requirements
Fixed inconsistent and wrong triggers for funeral buildings
Fixed necromancers being able to "rebuild" a defiled graveyard
Made Moon Gate of Anequina special building enabled for those who consider it holy site
Fixed Radiant Perk not giving an extra level to 'Powers of the Stars' modifier
Fixed Power of the Stars modifiers not giving arcana
Fixed Forgotten Gods referring to the Daedric Princes in singular
Fixed Cult of Meridia faith referring to Meridia as male in some situations
Fixed Power of the Stars Mage 0 giving learning 1 instead of reducing it by 1
Cut the Imperial City special building modifiers, which just further buffed the IC at a very high performance cost (~50 event calls per year)
Fixed our addition of the witch trait into the pool management effect not working
Fixed the get_random_magic_perk_effect to include rituals. It is now also used by wanderer pool management as the AI rarely uses the magic lifestyle XP they got until now
Fixed many effects being distributed into the wrong categories of the pool management effect, so they used wrong triggers
Fixed a broken culture effect for summoned skeletons
Replaced some overlooked instances of magic perk distribution in the history files with a new effect
Fixed Ghost Hist having forgiving as sin, while Ku Vastei tenet makes it a virtue
Fixed Cyrodiil being unformable by an Ilniviri Potentate who successfully defeats Attrebus and then reunites all of Cyrodiil
Fixed Hira Free Port SB not givings its bonuses to county holder
Blocked faiths that cannot use Holy Site buildings anyway from building these in the first place
Fixed Disinherit interaction saying it is blocked by the Mystical Ancestors tradition when it is blocked by Until Life Does Us part
Fixed Matriarchial tradition checking for vanilla African heritages, instead checks for Tsaesci
Fixed some Elder Council tasks for Attrebus not showing correctly in the decision list
Fixed extreme lag when using the bypass_requirementsconsole command caused by the Skull of Corruption artifact generating notifications to remind you to use it on every single character in the game
Specified in tooltips that only Argonians of a Hist faith can use the Hist Communion activity
Fixed pirates being unable to Contract Assitance (if you own Fate of Iberia)
Holy Site buildings will not state you may use them for University Visit if Wards and Wardens is not owned
Fixed Tsaescence personality event not displaying which trait you're gaining, only which you lose
Fixed Castle Wayrest starting with a tradeport while not being coastal, given farms instead
Divine Purity tenet now explains that also children of Impure parents will be considered Impure
Disabled one Wards and Wardens event that could spawn a university building slot, which are unused in EK
Fixed Quarrelsome tradition not properly reducing control growth
Fixed Wild Magic tradition not being available when Witchcraft it Virtuous to your faith
Fixed important action about holding too many duchies showing when at 3 (in EK the limit is 3, not 2)
Fixed the Witchmother's Bargain travel event letting you attempt to become vampire or lycan when you were immune to it
Fixed Restore Mane decision not forming a new HoF for custom faiths
Fixed various missing loc strings
Fixed assorted errors, typos and minor bugs

Known Issues:

Mac and Linux players experience problems playing the mod
Some animations may not play or display incorrectly
Curse of Undead spell does not work when used on a county held by a vassal ruler
Some tooltips are too large to click the button beneath them (Temporary fix: enable tooltip delay in settings)
Crown Authority effects of other rulers than yourself don't display properly

Elder Kings II v.0.14.0 'The Crimson Ship'(July 28th, 2024)

EK2 updated to CK3 1.12.5 New:

THE KNAHATEN FLU:

Added (one of) the most dangerous epidemic in Tamrielic history, starting in 2E 560: the Knahaten Flu!
The Knahaten Flu may wipe out non-Argonian counties in Black Marsh, swapping them to a nearby argonian culture. They can even go extinct as they did historically (changeable via game rule)
Modelled historic spread of the Knahaten Flu (especially for Elsweyr)
Added 3 Knahaten events to Elsweyr
Added 3 Post-Knahaten events to Black Marsh
Added Gwylim Popular Press newsletters when the Knahaten infected most of a province (ported announcement events from EK1)
Added a custom trait & epidemic icon for the Knahaten
Added 'Knahaten Flu Deadliness' Game Rule, to control if non-Argonian cultures in Black Marsh may lose counties. Settings are: historical, no county loss, no extinction

DISEASE AND EPIDEMICS:

Added 20 new TES themed epidemic events
Added new crisis faction type: Peryite Cultists, that can spawn during or after an epidemic
Added new Cultist MaA used by Peryite Cultist factions and some events
Added two new epidemics: Chrondiasis that only affects mages, and Peryite's Affliction that may be spawned by Peryite Cultists
Added custom descriptions to most disease events if you're a disease worshipper
Added decision unlocked by the Veneration of Diseases tenet to infect yourself (and potentially trigger an epidemic!) in exchange for piety
Added Peryite styled modifier icons to appropriate modifiers
Added an option to spread the disease, instead of imposing a quarantine, if your non-Peryite worshipping Court Physician proposes one and you are worshipping Peryite
Added three new epidemic related nicknames

HIST HOLDINGS:

Added new holding type: Hist
Added four new building types available in Hist holdings: Minding Grove, Hatching Pools, Invocation School, Speaker Hunter
Hist holding distributed around Black Marsh, replacing Argonian held temples. 11 of these are of the unique level 5 version of the holding
Added interaction for non-Argonian rulers to turn Hist holdings into temples

CULTURE:

Dwemer:

Dwemer culture split into three: Amz-Vtharden, Amz-Vtholften and Amz-Kagren
Amz-Vtharden is native to Vvardenfell, Velothis, Solstheim, East Ghost and Dark Water, representing the "main" Dwemer culture in Morrowind and nearby areas
Amz-Vtholften is native to Alikr, Abecee and Bangkorai, representing the Rourken Clan
Amz-Kagren is native to Karth, Craglorn and Bangkorai, representing the Kragen Clan
When one Dwemer culture is revived through the Ruler Designer, the other cultures lose Extinct Race and gain Dead Culture - meaning they may be revived as normal

Cantemirics:

Added formable e_cantemir for Cantemiric culture rulers who hold all of Thorn, Archon (and Arnesia, if formed). Can also drift Tearmarsh into it if fully controlled
Added decision to drift Tearmarsh back into Morrowind
Added Padomaic Temple HoF title for Cantemiric Sect
Added history origin loc for Cantemiric
Added proper description to Recreate the Lost Kingdom of Arnesia event
Prettied up and edited requirements for Arnesia decision a bit
Rewrote description for Cantemiric Sect faith
Removed Cantemiris as cultural name for Black Marsh due to above additions, defaulting to Argonia for all Elves instead

Other:

Added new cultural tradition: Imperial Scions
Reworked Imperial Legacy and Coin and Sword traditions - the former now deals with Imperial institutions while the latter is more strictly about Cyrodiilic culture
Added Imperial Scions to Cyroboiche and Ojel, replacing Xenophilic
Two new cultural traditions for Lilmothiit: Worm-Walk Cavalry and Until Life Does Us Part, replacing Seafarers and Concubines
Added Core cultural tradition type. Core traditions are culture or heritage unique, separating them from Regional ones
Added full set of cultural MaA to Argonians, unlocked through four new innovations - mirroring the Khajiit setup
Preset some historical cultural acceptances
Added cultural acceptance baseline for cultures with majority faiths with low hostility (ex: Imperial Cult and Nordic Pantheon)
Added cultural acceptance baseline for Pariah cultures with each other
Added Kronka-Thatith as Argonian cultural name for Black Marsh
Added Dutodrena as Khajiit cultural name for Valenwood
Added Ra-Keptu as default cultural name for a Ket-Keptu + Yokudan heritage hybrid
Added Blackmarcher as divergence name for Atmoran heritage cultures in Black Marsh
Added new default cultural names for Khajiit cultures diverging in Cyrodiil, Morrowind, Skyrim, Valenwood, Summerset and Yokuda

FAITH:

Hist related:

Added new Hist Communion activity for Argonians with a Hist faith, replacing the pilgrimage activity and replacing the old Commune with the Hist decision
Added Sun Hist faith
Added two new Hist tenets: Vakka Bok and Soul Stealing
Reworked Amber Plasm tenet
Amber Plasm gives prowess per stress level and piety for finished castle constructions
Sun Blessed gives health per level of devotion, access to sun trials and extra piety for feasts in the summer
Soul Stealing gives access to a new CB and character interaction: Clutch Raid and Adopt Hatchling
Added four new traits, gained from Hist Communion: Argonian Behemoth, Amber Blessed, Sun Blessed and Ghost Scale
Added new Hist Syncretism tenet (triggered names: Living Law and Hist Meditations)
Added Hist Syncretism to Living Law, replacing Ritual Celebrations, and Cantemiric Sect, replacing Inner Journey
This tenet unlocks holding but not building Hist holdings and reduces hostility with Hist faiths
Reworked heresy setup for Hist faiths

Other:

Added Blood Cat faith, Khajiit heritage Sanguine faith
Added The Natural Order, Peryite faith
Order of the Black Worm HoF title will now be destroyed at the death of Mannimarco, though it can be restored by a powerful Worm Cult faith necromancer
Added three new funeral doctrines: Grave-stake burial for Hist faiths, Meat Mandate for Green Pact faiths and Cannibalism for faiths with the Ritual Cannibalism tenet
Added six new funeral events related to these doctrines
Added two new holy sites to Living Law
Added Gil-Var-Delle holy site to Cult of Molag Bal, replacing Ramimilk
Added Hissmir holy site to Hist and Ghost-Hist, replacing Helstrom, and to Cantemiric Sect, replacing Necrom
Added Riverhold holy site to Baandari Code
Added Deep Graves as holy site to Ideal Masters
Added Archon as holy site to Cantemiric Sect, replacing Red Mountain
Added Khajiiti themed names and patron descriptions for most Daedric Princes
Added Baan Dar to Riddle'thar pantheon
Baandari pantheon now gets reduced faith hostility with the Riddle'thar and Khajiiti pantheons
New Moon Dance now uses the Hierocracy HoF doctrine
Added HoF titles for New Moon Dance and Many Paths (formable by decision)

ELSWEYR:

Elsweyr will now split into Anequina and Pellitine if the Mane does not control at least 75% of Elsweyr by 2E 490, or if Elsweyr has not existed for 20 years
Integrated and expanded upon Anequina Decisions submod by tvsmsa, including:
15 new decisions related to the formation of Anequina and Pellitine, the expansion of Elsweyr into parts of Leyawiin and Arenthia, returning Torval to the Mane, forming new kingdom titles, restoring the pre-Riddle'thar Mane and more
Some new Khajiiti flavour events
Overhauled Elsweyr character and title history, fleshing out both current rulers and historical ones. Most characters now have ancestors and children
Increased the number of counties and rulers of Many-Paths faith
Replaced placeholder icon for the Third Moon in the astronomy GUI window

SPECIAL BUILDINGS:

Added 17 new special buildings:

Moonmirth Plantations
White Walls of Alabaster
Predator Mesa
Rithana-di-Renada
Orcrest Bazar
Lucky Cat’s Port
Beela Kars Laboratory
Path of the Lily
Sithis Teeth
Xi-Tsei Xanmeer
Shrine of the Oracle
Deep Graves
Stormhold Canals
Barrowbough
Caverns of Abamath
Falkreath Graveyard
Motalion Necropolis
Added seven new decisions related to and unlocked by holding special buildings
Added Pride of Alkosh MaA, unlocked by Prideholm Temple
Added some new nicknames related to building certain special buildings
Added Sulfur Mine to Darkpool in Elsweyr

ETHNICITIES:

Added the snakelike Naga ethnicity, used by Naga culture
Added the feathered Sarpa ethncity, used by Sarpa culture
Added the toadlike Paatru ethnicity, used by Paatru culture
Adjustments/improvements to Argonian textures, making them less shiny among other things. Horn base now matches skin colour
Combined scale decal and head shape genes to improve appearance of Argonian mixes (incidentally this also means no more skingonians, but appearance of human-argonian mixes will still obviously not look good)
New posture animation for digitigrade characters
Fixed weird skin colors on Kothringi mixes by adding a new Kothringi skin gene
Normalised values of various skin genes to further reduce weird skin colours in mixed children

MAP MODELS:

Added Argonian tribal holding and Hist holding GFX, by kefir
Retexture of Mesoamerican holdings, by kefir
Imperial Chapel SB GFX, by kefir
Integrated Kefir's Magyar holdings for Colovians (Slavic holdings are now only used by Cyro-Nords)
Integrated Kefir's Guinean holdings for Ket-Keptu
Integrated Kefir's retextured Guinean holdings for Black Marsh Nedes
Integrated Kefir's Sahelian holdings for Yokudans
Integrated Kefir's Japanese holdings for Ilniviri

ART:

Integrated MHG Holding Illustration for Kefir's holdings + Matt's Slavic Holdings
Added MaA illustrations for Khajiit
Added MaA illustrations for Imga
Added MaA illustrations for Shellback Phalanx and Winged Avengers
Added eight new Special Building icons
Added new art to the Recruit Court Mage decision
Added new art to Veneration of Diseases tenet
Added new tribal holding backgrounds for Ashlands and Black Marsh terrain
Added new tenet art used for Mastery of Undeath and the new Soul Stealing tenet

LOADING SCREENS:

Added three new loading screens, courtesy of Eric He and Dominik Zdenković
Edited altmer_book loading screen to fix some anatomical errors
Cut dunmer_street, skyrim_warrior, skyrim_swamp and red_mountain loading screens
Reduced resolution of loading screens to reduce file size
Shrunk the black bars in the loading screen

COAT OF ARMS:

Added Falmer, Maormer, Orma and Yespest CoA templates
Reworked Nord CoA templates a bit, gave them more template designs
Added one additional CoA template design for Bretons
Added many new preset title names for mercenaries and holy orders, added CoA for the majority of unique ones
Added many new CoA emblems, some imported from EK1
Added the missing Dwemer and Dovah letter emblems
Split EK CoA emblems into 16 separate categories
Faction revolts will now use more culturally/religiously relevant CoA emblems
Added dynamic CoA for Cyrodiilic kingdoms and empire for Ayleids
Added dynamic CoA for Dwemer or Sixth House Vvardenfell
17 new CoAs for Black Marsh dynasties, replacing all of the placeholder designs
Added five new community CoA
Minors edits to some CoA

ASSORTED HISTORY:

Overhauled character history for Bosmer. Most characters now have ancestors and children, rework of some map setup, adding several new rulers
Expanded character history for most Ayleids, connecting them to realms in Cyrodiil
Added several ancient lore characters in Cyrodiil, Ayleid and otherwise
Many new cultural title names for Ayleids
Reworked Auri-El character history, moving the LotR reference elves to Cloudrest
Added Knahaten Flu death reason to characters in (future) history
Gulum-Ei, ancient high king of Black Marsh, demoted to king of Helstrom. Given a fancy new nickname in return
Many other additions and edits to assorted character and title history

LEGENDS:

Added five EK Legends
Reduced chance to convert county faith with legend to 20% from the vanilla 50%
Gaining claims on titles is now restricted to Mythical level legends
Disabled kingdom de jure drift decision from legends until we figure out how to handle them

SCHEMES:

Added two new general TES themed ongoing hostile scheme events
Added two new Argonian themed ongoing hostile scheme events
Added two new general TES themed murder methods

OTHER:

Added new Crimeboss intrigue lifestyle, with 8 perks and 31 lifestyle events. Also includes a new court position: Enforcer
Added decision to drift the Systres into High Rock/Hammerfell/Summerset/Cyrodiil
Added decision to drift Solstheim into Morrowind or Skyrim/Eastern Skyrim
Added innovation era modifier for the Spellblade and Mage Accolade MaA
Replaced the vanilla Commission Artifact decision with our own Commission Banner one, to make it clear that EK only includes commissionable banners
Added new Repurpose Knowledge decision, allowing you to convert surplus perk points into other bonuses
Picking a Daedric Worshipper trait in Ruler Designer will now trigger an event at game start letting you start with a secret Daedric faith
All traits (vampire, lycanthrope, pirate, necromancer) that trigger events at game start after using Ruler Designer now explain this in their descriptions
Traits that make the character be considered mindless now explain this, also with a cute icon (Undead, the third tier of the new Argonian Behemoth)
Adapted the vanilla CK3 tutorial to work in EK2, featuring Queen Donella of Daggerfall in 2E 450
Players will now be notified if another culture reforms their military, losing Disorganized Military
Added Blackcaster Mages Guild titular title for Felix "Blackcaster"
Blackcaster Mages Guild given Magocratic succession
Added seven new memories: became lich, became disrupted, created a thrall, became a thrall, adopted someone, was adopted and recieved a Hist blessing
Added new character and dynasty names for goblinken cultures
Added new dynasty names for Khajiit cultures
Added many new house mottos

Changes:

MAGIC:

Spellbook related:

Added tooltips on hovering over spell names in the spellbook, explaining their effect
Adjusted placement of hostile/province spell icon in spellbook, making it easier to hover over to read
Tooltips about hostile/province spells now explain better how these work
Added new icon for secret spells - hostile spells that the target won't know were cast
General improvement of magic related tooltips, including: adding game concepts, rewording, typos, cutting redundancy
Spells that will have no effect - such as attempting to Banish a non-Daedra, now cannot be cast instead of just having a tooltip explain the spell won't have any effect
Added opinion malus from casting hostile spells on someone's county
Changing rituals no longer impose a cooldown
Fixed being able to cast non-hostile province spells on counties you do not own without being present there

Spell functionality related:

Spell modifiers with tiers (Petty to Grand) now include this in their modifier name
Added new destruction spell Display of Might, increasing county control in owned county
Added new illusion spell Mass Frenzy, increasing travel danger and reducing popular opinion, county control and development growth in target county
Burden spell now also lowers target Prowess
Fortify Walls spell now also adds a small bonus to defender advantage
Feather, Oakflesh, Empower Magic rituals buffed
Unleash Lesser Daedra spell buffed
Dremora MaA summoned with the Summon Daedric Army spell slightly buffed
Detract Magicka spell now also adds as much stress to the target as magicka removed
Inflict Wounds spell now also adds a negative modifier based on the elemental damage applied
Cut Aggravated Vulnerability ritual that buffed Inflict Wounds
Destroy Walls now also lowers garrison size
Flamecloak spell is now a ritual. Instad of giving dread it now reduces risk when leading armies
Arcane Outlet ritual now also adds some prowess per stress level
Hostile illusion spells are now cast in secret, meaning the target will not know who cast it, so opinion maluses etc won't apply
Charm spell no longer applies a modifier but instead insantly increases target's opinion of you
Calm spell now also applies a modifier reducing stress gain
Cut blocker preventing stacking the Calm spell
Conceal ritual now also increases personal scheme success chance
Invisibility ritual now increases hostile scheme resistance, while no longer increasing personal scheme success chance
Swapped around Exuberance and Resilience. Resilience is now a spell that greatly increases health resistance on target. Exuberance is now a ritual that boosts health and fertility
Cure Disease and Remedy Illness combined into one spell that cures all diseases - except Knahaten. Updated related game concept to explain this
Spread Vitality now also adds epidemic resistance
Buffed undead knights from Raise Skeletal Knight
Raise Undead Horde now summons levies instead of MaA. Their number scales with your capital levy size, and may be further increased by artifacts and special buildings
The Unhallowed Earth ritual now automatically raises every fallen knight as an undead thrall
Cut Exasperate spell which increased stress
Banish Daedra success chance now scales depending on the Arcana of both the caster and the target
Fixed Banish Daedra not being considered a Hostile spell
Fixed Dispel not removing the negative modifier from surviving Turn Undead as a lich

Other:

Added new level 5 magical education trait. Currently only available in history and in Ruler Designer
Rebalanced arcana values for some traits
Genetic magic traits now also give increased or decreased magicka generation, losing the health resistance effect

CULTURE:

Coin and Sword added to Nibenu
Imperial Legacy added to Heartlander, replacing Loyal Soldiers
Imperial Legacy added to Colovian, replacing Malleable Invaders
Imperial Legacy added to Strident, replacing Industrious
Imperial Legacy added to Nibenese, replacing Philosopher Culture
Imperial Legacy added to Rimmenese, replacing Highland Warriors
Removed Imperial Legacy from Rim-Men
Lilmothiit given Marshlanders tradition, replacing Wetlanders
Bosmer no longer suffer health penalties from cannibalism
Bosmer no longer gain Dread from being cannibals
Reduced Same Trait opinion of Cannibal from 35 to 10
Cut the Bear Cavalry MaA and the related innovation
Pursuit of Wealth tradition now makes Charming more common, Rowdy less common (formerly Bossy and Pensive)
Deshaan Agronomy tradition now makes Bossy more common, Curious less common (formerly Curious and Rowdy)
Lingua Tamrielis innovation is now inactive in 450
Ket-Keptu now also gain access to camels
Tweaked triggers, prestige costs and ai_chance for various traditions
Yagrum Bagarn's nickname and Last of His Kind trait description will now reflect whether the Dwemer have been revived or not
Yagrum Bagarn may no longer be landed if Dwemeri cultures are extinct
Yagrum Bagarn Learning education increased from 4 to 5
The Neius house, ruling five Naga culture counties, made Naga (formerly Agaceph)

FAITH:

Moved special doctrines like Cyrodiilic Cult and Spirits of the Reach to its own line in the faith GUI
Renamed Vinedusk Exemptions to Pact Exemptions, representing a more general abandonment of cannibalism and Green Pact restrictions than a specific militant group
Pact Exemptions Vinedusk holy site replaced with Treehenge
Pact Exemptions tenets and sins/virtues reworked to fit new depiction
Green Pact counties and some characters in Cyro- and Salaboiche areas made Pact Exemptions
Green Pact pantheon no longer allows cannibalism - the Green Pact tenet still unlocks this
Reduced the bonus per prowess to levy size, levy reinforcement race and MaA maintenance from the Contempt for the Weak tenet, from +2% to +0.5%
Reworked faith conversion parameter of Heartland High Elves tradition, now it instead makes heresies started by characters of this faith stronger
Added missing virtue/sin checks for some EK tenets
Moon Worship tenet is now only available to faiths with the Ahnurr and Fadomai special doctrine
Nerfed impact of Moon Worship virtues a bit
Ku-Vastei tenet is now only available to Hist pantheon faiths
Amber Hist tenet is now only available to Hist pantheon faiths
Cut Amber Hist as a distinct pantheon doctrine, replacing it with the base Hist one
Labyrinthine Canon tenet is now only available to The One pantheon faiths
Reman Legacy tenet is now only available to Reman worshipping faiths
Green Pact tenet is now only available to Green Pact pantheon faiths
Buffed impact of Veneration of Witches virtue
Added warnings to certain tenets that the content they describe isn't actually in the mod yet
Dwemer Ancestors pantheon now reduces hostility with Dwemer faiths
Replaced Hunter's Glade HS for Hircine Cult with Predator Mesa
Replaced Moon Worship with Esotericism, Inner Journey with Mastery over Undeath for Order of the Hidden Moon
Order of the Hidden Moon given Ahnurr and Fadomai doctrine
Deviancy is now Virtuous to Sanguine Cult
Replaced vanilla Crypto-Religion secret icon with our own Daedric themed one
Moongrave Fang and its Hollowfang ruler is now openly Many-Paths rather than Sanguine Cult, secretly Blood Cat
c_solvjord in Solstheim is now secretly Woodland Man faith
Added Moon-Gate as holy site to Order of the Hidden Moon
Added Necrom as holy site to Ideal Masters
Added Tenmar as holy site to Baandari Code
Added Sunspire as holy site to New Moon Order, replacing Dov Vahl
Added Pridehome as holy site to Dark-Moon Dance, replacing Deepland, and Ashen Scar
Added Tomb of the Snow Prince as Holy Site to Chantry Auri-El, replacing Moesring
Renamed Gloomreach, Snowhawk, Raldbthar and Mzark holy sites for Temple of Xrib to Southern, Northern, Eastern and Central Blackreach
Golden Tones identity changed from Strong Cultural to Strong Heritage
Dark-Moon Dance now accept necromancy
Two-Moons Dance now see the Missing God as Forbidden
Many-Paths Dance now see the Missing God as Respected
Reworked sins/virtues of Amber Hist
Removed the vanilla Sun Worship tenet
Cult of Mehrunes Dagon added as possible heresy to Xanmeer
The Celestial Serpent pantheon now requires priests and court chaplains be born under the Serpent.
New decision to get a court chaplain for rulers without any Serpent courtiers
Celestial Serpent faith now has temporal clerical appointment

Reworked the Tsaescence Consume interaction:

It can no longer be used on undead or after reaching the fourth levels
Success chance is now displayed in the interaction window
Success chance increased if victim have high skills
Added new interaction icon

DISEASE:

Vanilla diseases renamed into TES diseases
Replaced health bonus from Alchemy innovation with epidemic resistance
Veneration of Diseases now only consider infectious diseases as virtue
Follower of Peryite now gives reduced plague resistance

OTHER:

Restored the ability for the AI to create holy orders
Streamlined some Extend Lifespan decision script
Extend Lifespan now tells you how much remains of the cooldown before you may attempt it again
AI Mannimarco will no longer attempt to extend his lifespan, instead focusing on achieving lichdom
Becoming immortal while already pretty old won't make you instantly grow ancient visually
Becoming a lich now removes the immortality trait
Improved some Compendium entries
Adjusted life_expectancy and years_of_fertility values of life extending traits (lifespan, tsaescence) to be more accurate to their actual values
Reworded description of lifespan traits to be less misleading about expected lifespan
You can no longer do a Pilgrimage or University Visit somewhere if you're at war with the holder
Pirates can now unlock the Pillage Legacy
Renamed "Star Signs" to "Constellations"
Reachfolk now call Constellations "Sky Tales"
Furstock traits now link to the game concept, similar to Birthsigns
Furstock trait descriptions rewritten to be more consistent
Added line about the child's furstock to birth events
Changed Ayleid cultural name for Nibenay from Mackamentain to Nibenu
Holder of the Cyrodiilic Potentate can no longer form Cyrodiil unless they complete all Elder Council tasks
If neither Attrebus nor Aixnieras hold the Potentate, the title will be destroyed. If Attrebus still holds the Colovian Estates, it will also be destroyed at this time
The Shadowscale court position now directly boosts murder schemes, but no longer grant intrigue
Cut three special buildings: Dov Vahl Shrine, Shadow Dance Temple, Hakoshae Tombs
Rebalanced several special buildings. In general they'll give less money and more specific bonuses, such as unlocking unique decisions
Sulfur Deposits of Aalto renamed to Sulfur Mine, made into generic mine type special building
If Legends of the Dead is active, adapted "Bury a Relative in Cath Bedraud" decision into funeral activity
The vanilla peasant factions are now stronger, to keep up with the more powerful EK factions
Rework of some faction code to work better, accounting for development level and legitimacy
Reduced chance for characters to join the House of Reveries
A character that secludes themselves during an epidemic is now unavailable for most actions
Decision to seclude yourself is no longer available if you're a disease worshipper
Reduced occurence of certain mustaches for Bosmer and Goblins
Physicians now wear new physician clothes unless they are also court mage (they will wear mage clothes then)
Only old goblins now have beards, young ones will be mostly clean-shaven
Restored the vanilla effect giving every county a passive +0.1 control growth
The White Queen given Ghost Scale instead of Albino
Swapped the build speed modifier from Ku-Vastei and Shunatei tenets to development growth
Forming e_cyrodiil now requires legitimacy level greater or equal to 4
Added legitimacy values to EK traits and other relevent places
Ritual suicide decision is now also available if your overall age is 320 or more, equalling to around 60 years old with lifespan 4. This way it is actually viable for lifespan 5 or immortals to use it
Removed mentions of Tax Jurisdictions, as EK don't use these for the moment
Renamed the Jizya contract law, previously named Religious Champion, to Champion of Faith

Fixes:

Fixed the crash when editing certain ethnicities in Ruler Designer
Mage and spellblade accolades are now available to Khajiit
Accolade names now account for different lifespans
Fixed some cases where "age considerations" and "low fertility" for marriage acceptance didn't account for different lifespans
Fixed the Khajiiti Lunar Mysteries innovation replacing Codified Magical Studies not properly unlocking everything that innovation did, including higher levels of the Mage Towers building
Khajiit now gain access to the Schools of Magic innovation
Fixed being unable to usurp titles from faiths that are Astray
Fixed magically extended lifespans being inheritable
Fixed the second tier of Shalidor's Maze being unbuildable
Added our ek_character_setup_effect to several generated characters that were missing this, which should reduce issues caused by missing lifespan and race checks
Added back in desc for Cyrodiilic Heritage we accidentally deleted
Fixed broken alert icon for Dark Arts lifestyle perk available
Fixed Yokudan Swordmasters not scaling properly by innovation era
Fixed Bruma not being considered part of the harsh winter region for the purpose of cultural traditions
Fixed winter severity being broken for many provinces
Fixed one event checking for Sanies Lupinus when it should check for Sanguinare Vampiris
Fixed some triggers checking for mines not including our mine special buildings
Fixed issue that causes crashes on custom submodded bookmarks
Fixed the Dwemer and Dragon script CoA emblems not showing up ingame
Replaced some real life references in the eulogy desc upon succession
Fixed ai war priorities not being applied properly, which should among other things make Dunmer less interested in Cyrodiil, Altmer less interested in Hew's Bane and the Mane less likely to conquer the world
Fixed several cases of the names of Daedric Princes infinitely being shuffled in decision tooltips and nicknames
Fixed the ports on the Istrius river in Colovia being affected by the Bridges of Leyawiin
Fixed Fort Legion and Arcane University gaining dynamic wall models (they have custom ones)
Children can no longer become Daedric Champions
Fixed weird and broken math for higher lifespan fertility calculation
Fixed Pirate Court Amenities not displaying properly for non-players
Fixed Consume interaction being unable to grant Eccentric
Fixed the unavailable vanilla Uplands Skirmishers tradition being visible
Simplified requirements for Orc core traditions, removing unnecessary check for both culture and heritage
Scrapped some unused Hierocracy code
Sorcerous Elective now actually states that it favours mages
Fixed vanilla bug where a guest in a funeral got a funeral description based on their own faith, not that of the host
Fixed undead being able to be tortured
Fixed undead being able to become infirm
Fixed undead being able to gain diseases
Fixed a missing check for Imga race in marriage acceptance modifiers
Fixed bookmark text not being fully displayed
Fixed some errors with AI magic casting
Fixed Daedric Race innovation not explaining that it cannot be removed
Fixed guardians of a dead culture being able to convert culture of their wards
Fixed it being possible under some very specific circumstances to promote a dead culture in a county
Fixed culture revival event not properly scoping to your heritage
Fixed the "the Reclaimer" nickname saying Thornmarsh as brought under Argonian control, and not Dunmer
Fixed the Old Orc duel event falsely claiming the duel is a 50/50 chance
Fixed (for real this time) being able to renounce vampirism or lycantrophy by going on pilgrimage
Fixed lifestyle event that could trigger conversion to Alessian Order being available to non-Nedic-Nordic faiths
Fixed Jel language description not showing up
Fixed Agluk dynasty being named Argluk
Fixed Forge-Wife court position using the same description as Lorekeeper
Fixed various missing loc strings
Fixed assorted errors, typos and minor bugs

Known Issues:

Some animations may not play or display incorrectly
One option during hunt activities fails to find the right animal, and invalidates the activity. This option has been disabled as a bandaid fix while we work on this
Curse of Undead spell does not work when used on a county held by a vassal ruler
Some tooltips are too large to click the button beneath them (Temporary fix: enable tooltip delay in settings)
Crown Authority effects of other rulers than yourself don't display properly

Elder Kings II v.0.13.3 'Warp in the West'(February 26th, 2024)

EK2 updated to CK3 1.11.5 New:

Events:

2 new pilgrimage events
2 new yearly events
2 new lifestyle events
1 new inspiration event

Faith:

New faith icon for Scaled Court added
Added Magna-Ge secondary pantheon
Added Cyrodiilic Heroes secondary pantheon

Coat of Arms:

CoA templates for Altmer + Balfieri variant
CoA templates for Argonians
CoA Templates for Ashlanders
CoA templates for Bretons + Galen/Bjoule variant
CoA templates for Bosmer
CoA templates for Cyrodiilics (and Ojel)
CoA templates for Dremora
CoA templates for Dunmer, with variants depending on faith (Tribunal/Velothi/Sixth House) and Great House culture
CoA templates for Goblins
CoA templates for Imga, with variants depending on faith (Anui-El/Marukhati)
CoA templates for Orcs
CoA templates for Pirate government rulers, with cultural variants
CoA templates for Redguards and Yokudans
CoA templates for Tsaesci
~30 new dynastic CoA
Added dynamic CoA to Skyrim when its capital is based in Bruma
Added fancier CoA for Skyrim when its capital is based in Falkreath, the Rift, the Pale or Hjaalmarch

Summerset Isles:

New Xarxean Investiture succession law for empire tier Ceremoniarchy realms
New Praxis Elective title succession law for kingdom tier Ceremonairchy realms
Added the Syrabanis, Xarxesar and Phynastris dynasties, descended of the god-ancestors themselves

DLC visuals:

Nibenu and dead Central Nedic cultures now use Persian crowns if Legacy of Persia is installed
Dwemer culture now use Persian fashion and hair/beards if Legacy of Persia is installed
Yokudan culture now uses North African fashion if North African Attire is installed
Some Breton cultures now use Couture of the Capets fashion is installed
Dunmer, Dwemer and Chimer heritage now use Persian UI if Legacy of Persia is installed

Other:

New clothing for Orc cultures
New armour for Kothringi and Horwalli
Added back in mudcrab chitin helmets for Dunmeri travellers and lowborns, accidentally removed at one point
Reachfolk now get tattoos
Added the Companions as a Military Order based in Jorrvaskr
New MaA illustrations for Equestrian Brigades, Armored Legionaires and Saxhleel Rel-ka
Replaced DLC illustrations for Huscarls and Skaal Hunters MaA
Added decisions to reveal yourself as a vampire or lycan if your faith is accepting of it
Added golden skull icon to divinity related death reasons, such as "ascended to godhood"
Added Woodland Man faith, Atmoran heritage Hermaeus Mora faith
Integrated Cultural Conversion Enhanced submod, reworking how choosing a culture to convert a province to works
Enabled converting province culture to cultures not of your own heritage, when Cultural Acceptance is very high
Added some new dynasty mottos
Added some new gainable nicknames
Added Accolades for mages and spellblades
The Main Menu DLC icons now explain how they apply to EK, and the EK "DLC" icon no longer shows as "Not enabled"
Pirates can use the Contract Assistance interaction if Fate of Iberia is installed
Added Lore Compendium entry for Ooze
Added new Atronach and Oblivion modifier icons, for related modifiers
Added Dwemer/Dovah letter CoA Emblems (available in CoA Designer) by rustyrobot
Added Inner Sea Specific Character & Event Background when at sea

Changes:

Ethnicities:

Revamped Elven ethnicities
Tweaks to Nord ethnicities
Tweaks to Ashlander ethnicities
Tweaks to Orc ethnicities
Tweaks to South Nedic ethnicities
Tweaks to Reachfolk ethnicities
Maormer now have scales
Reworked some character DNA to fit new ethnicities

Faith:

Malada gains the Magna-Ge secondary pantheon, adding Xero-Lyg and Mnemo-Li to its patrons
Malada now sees Meridia as Shunned rather than Criminal
Lorkhan pantheon doctrine renamed to Missing God
Trinimac Cult set to Orc heritage identity
Beldama Wyrd and Glenmoril Wyrd set to Breton heritage identity
Druid Circles set to no cultural identity (they're spread across two different heritages)
County of Doomcrag set to Magnus Cult faith

Summerset Isles:

Summerset ruler history somewhat fleshed out
Ceremoniarchy/Divine Blood HoF type cut
Throne of Auri-El HoF title is now Spiritual, renamed to Xarxean Priesthood
House Aunsamiran of Dusk is now a Xarxesar cadet
House Vaelata, previously Aunsamiran cadet, is now also a Xarxesar cadet
House Errinorne of Skywatch is now an Auri-El cadet
House Arelsamirmo of Vulkhal is now a Phynastris cadet
Itecerie dynasty of Shimmerene replaced by the Syrabanis dynasty
Various traits given Praxis values

Other:

Updated papermap, reintroducing icons to represent terrain
Cadet house CoA no longer makes quarters, instead generates a new CoA
Added a cap to possible prowess gain from the Train Commanders councillor action
Reduced or replaced prowess gain from most patron traits
Replaced some EK unit type icons with vanilla ones, for the sake of consistency
Removed the Elder Kings Renames game rule, as it didn't do much anyway
Send to the Imperial Legion interaction is now tied to Traditions, not Heritage
Spells cast on Counties now explain this a little better
Rebalanced Extend Lifespan decision: Success chance is generally reduced and each attempt applies a cooldown, scaling based on current lifespan
Huscarl MaA renamed to Housecarl
Daedric worship secrets cut, replaced with the new vanilla Crypto-Religionist secret
Various content related to Deadric worship secrets reworked to fit the new secret setup
Argonians and undead can no longer drown
Drowning can now be prevented by knowing how to magically breathe underwater
Daedric Artifacts cannot be stolen through sieges or raids
Hircine's Ring artifact made slightly rarer
Lifestyle XP gain malus for Tsaescence IV, Undead, Lich and Vampire traits capped at 50%
Removed some vanilla trash artifact trinkets
Counties of Rockguard, Glenbridge and Shajuhe made Kothringi culture
Rockguard and Glenbridge made Nedic Sect faith, Shajue made Ideal Masters
County of Norg-Tzel made tribal
Updated Promote Culture event desc if your culture is dead or Daedric
Replaced the "Prester John" nickname with the more generic "the Crusader"
"Make the Reach a Nord Hold" decision no longer makes Westholder native to the Reach if there already is an Atmoran heritage culture native to it
Golden Skull of Beela-Kar artifact is now a trinket, not a pedestal artifact
Characters of Lilmothiit heritage will no longer hunt foxes
Gave some Skyrim mountain impassables their lore accurate names
Added Chaste trait to Viana the Pure
Greatly reduced Divayth Fyr's fertility, so he's unlikely to have natural children
Landed priests of most temples will now gain appropriate patron traits
Minor nerf to Imperial City cash cooldown
Slightly reduced vampirism chance from two sources

Fixes:

Fixed "Proclaim the Empire of Tamriel" decision not changing the year from the Second Era to the Third Era (Huge thanks to TypicalCrusader of Thedas at War, AGOT!)
Enabled changing hair and beard options for Argonians in Ruler Designer, as a temporary measure to fix the toxic pink hair they're stuck with
Fixed underage characters participating in Heart's Day holiday
Adjusted some cultural names for custom cultures
Fixed some tooltips about DLC features being visible despite not owning the DLCs in question
Fixed Character Window backgrounds not displaying where the character is currently located
Redguard knights now wear pants
Fixed the Orc Wife court positions requiring the court owner is male
Fixed only dynasty heads being able to abdicate
Fixed Blackrose Prison being a tribe held by an Autocracy
Fixed White-Gold and Temple of the Ancestors HS effects stacking
Fixed random Necromancers converting to inappropriate necromantic faiths (Ghost-Hist Tharns etc)
Fixed Mannimarco gaining a beard when dead
Betrayed are now properly bald
Reworked backend localisation for names, dynasties and houses to make translation easier
Fixed some character templates not doing proper Elder Kings character setup (lifespan, compatible races etc)
Fixed broken Cultural and Heritage Identity doctrines tooltips when creating a new faith
Fixed missing unique localisation when uniting Nibenay and Colovia back into Cyrodiil as a Heartlander
Fixed some issues with Great Chapel holy site triggers
Fixed missing terrain localisation
Fixed missing icon for dreugh artifacts
Fixed the new immortality trait (lifespan_6) not using the correct trait icon
Undead can no longer extend lifespan by decision
Fixed Sanctity of Life tenet not reducing faith hostility with faiths that criminalise vampirism
Added the EK content_source icon to many events lacking it
Fixed calculation of lifespan, causing many elves to die at too young an age
Culture with the Headhunters tradition no longer loses access to their MaA if no longer of a Nedic heritage due to hybridisation
Fixed Necromancers with faiths where undead are criminal executing all their summoned skeletons and undead thralls
Made generic CK3 Achievements available to unlock while playing EK2
Fixed the Spellbook not showing the effects of rituals on hover
Fixed EK date format not fitting on the character memory entries screen
Fixed tribal realm backgrounds always being desert
Fixed various missing loc strings
Fixed assorted errors, typos and minor bugs

Known Issues:

Curse of Undead spell does not work when used on a county held by a vassal ruler
Some tooltips are too large to click the button beneath them (Temporary fix: enable tooltip delay in settings)
Crown Authority effects of other rulers than yourself don't display properly

Elder Kings II v.0.13.2 'Warp in the West'(December 3rd, 2023)

UPDATE IS FOR CK3 1.10.2 Compatch is coming

New:

New Cultural Traditions:

Coin and Sword, for all Cyrodiilic cultures, replacing Imperial Legacy
Foothill Paddocks, for Colovian and Strident, replacing Reverence for Veterans
Imperial Battlemages, for Heartlander and Nibenese, replacing Astute Diplomats and Welcoming respectively
Ut-Nibenu Folklore, for Nibenu, replacing Dexterous Fishermen
Snake Palace and Danger Sense, for Tsaesci and Rim-Men, replacing Garden Architects and Refined Poetry for the former, Philosopher Culture for the latter

Events:

68 new Travel events
11 new Lifestyle events
6 new Yearly events
8 new Pilgrimage events
5 new Experimentalist events
2 new Arcane Clash events
1 new Raiding event
1 new Feast event
1 new Hunt event
1 new Court event

Factions:

Added new crisis factions for Rieklings, Rieks and Imga
Crisis factions may now spawn with MaA based on traditions and innovations of their culture
After a successful revolt, crisis factions retain some of these MaA and their leader will gain a temporary buff
Backing down from fighting a revolt will lead to a 5 year truce
Overhauled and cleaned up faction revolt scripts, crisis factions should now be more opportunistic

Game Concepts:

Added the EK2 Features Game Concept, gathering all EK2 custom features in one place
Added new feature game concepts for Astronomy and Furstocks
Added additional game concepts to the Lore Compendium
Integrated Lore Compendium links in various tooltips and descriptions all across the mod

Mane Furstock:

Added the Mane furstock
Added the Third Moon to the lunar cycle
Players whose children are born Mane may forbid them from inheriting based on Mystical Birthright
Mystical Birthright succession is now based on the Mane trait instead of Mystic

Lifespan:

Added decision for a powerful ritual to extend your life, gaining Lifespan traits
Requires the Master Restoration perk
Cut the number of Lifespan traits from 7 to 6
Reduced Lifestyle XP penalty from lifespan traits, capping them at -50%

Magic:

Overhaul of spells and rituals, revamping their effects or shuffling them around:

Alteration:
- Burden tier 4 spell moved to tier 1
- Fortify Walls tier 1 spell moved to tier 2
- Dispel tier 2 spell moved to tier 4
- Swift Swim tier 1 ritual replaced with Feather
- Feather tier 2 ritual replaced with Oakflesh
- Oakflesh tier 3 ritual replaced with Swiftness
Conjuration:
- Summon Atronach tier 3 spell moved to tier 1, replacing Oblivion Counsel (made into a ritual)
- Unleash Lesser Daedra tier 3 spell added
- Summon Familiar tier 1 ritual replaced with Oblivion Counsel
- Bound Weapon tier 2 ritual replaced with Bound Armor
- Bound Armor tier 2 ritual replaced with Empower Magic
Destruction:
- Elemental Cloak tier 2 spell added
- Destroy Walls tier 2 spell moved to tier 3
- Increase Wounds tier 3 spell moved to tier 4, somewhat buffed
- Devastate Province tier 5 spell added
- Ignited Weapons tier 1 ritual replaced with Arcane Outlet
- Empower Mages tier 2 ritual replaced with Inflict Weakness
- Elemental Cloaks tier 3 ritual replaced with Ignited Weapons
Illusion:
- Mass Hysteria tier 5 spell replaced with Mind Mending
- Rally tier 2 and Invisibility tier 3 rituals switched around, revamped effects
Restoration:
- Disease curing spells now tell you what illnesses they cure
- Exuberance tier 1 spell added
- Turn Undead tier 3 spell added
- Remove Curse tier 5 spell moved to tier 4
- Spread Vitality tier 5 spell added
- Resist Disease tier 1 ritual replaced with Fortify rituals, with reduced skill gains
- Fortify tier 2 rituals replaced with Resilience, combining disease resistance with health gain
- Mass Healing tier 3 ritual buffed
The AI is now able to use hostile spells against provinces
Court Mages can now be instructed to focus on certain schools of magic, gaining perks and casting spells from that school
Ritual perks now list the rituals they unlock
Added four new magical artifacts

Other:

Added decisions to flip between Feudal and Autocratic government based on having Hereditary Hierarchy or not
Added new trigger to protect specific important lore characters from Harm events and from gaining random nicknames
Added new lore descriptions to specific important lore characters
Added assorted new mottos
Vamps, lycans and necromancers now get a -50% conversion cost when converting to a faith where they're seen as Accepted when their own faith doesn't
Added five more variants of the Call Nightmares event
Integrated 137 CoA from the Alternate Arms submod by Benedict
Added two unique decisions available to members of the Direnni dynasty related to the Zero Stone
Decision to form the Aldmeri Dominion added
Decision to sack the Orsinium Special Building added
Added some Altmer clothes and Akaviri beards to the Barbershop
Added the Warlock's Ring
Added the Khajiiti Ring
Added new magical torture methods
Added game start event to flip to pirate government for RD characters holding a pirate title or with the pirate trait, replacing the decision doing the same
Added one new event background, for when encountering Mundus Stones
Added or edited 48 CoA in High Rock and Hammerfell

Changes:

Abdication:

Abdication is now available under the following circumstances: have the Incapable trait, rule for more then 50 years or have an age equvivalent of 75 or higher
Being infirm lowers these values to 40 and 60 years
Abdication is not possible if the scales of power are swung against you, unless the regent is your heir
Abdication costs a hefty sum of dynasty prestige

Rule By Might Succession:

Landed children may now duel their parent for the title. The AI will do that once a ruler grows too old or weak. Incapable rulers will surrender by default
Rule By Might duels to the death may now result in an option to spare the life of the loser
Other claimants are now able to join in on the sibling duels during Rule By Might Succession

Culture:

Instead of activity blockers based on Pariah status, this is now handled through acceptance modifiers
Imperial Legacy is now not unlocked by Cyrodiilic Heritage, but instead available to non-Cyrodiilics ruling either Cyrodiil or the Potentate
Lacquered Goldscale, Ancestor Silk Robes and Newtscale Cloaks innovations, previously used to unlock Akaviri Dragon Hunters, Nibenese Battlemages and Ut-Nibenu Bowmen, replaced by traditions
Rimmenese given Coin and Sword tradition, replacing Imperial Legacy
Malapiit given Jungle Dwellers tradition, replacing Agrarian
Nibenu and Salaboiche given Attuned to Magicka tradition, replacing Sorcerer Kings

Magic:

Magic education effect moved from Sorcerer Kings to the Attuned to Magicka tradition
Arcana Claim and Disruption effects moved from Attuned to Magicka to Sorcerer Kings tradition
Magic education effect added to Knight-Paladins tradition
Mastery over Undeath tradition Necromancer trait arcana boost removed, instead gives a Necromancy spell cost reduction

Other:

Rebalance of both EK and vanilla artifacts, reducing their bonuses across the board
Made inspirations for realms playing tall more common
Prowess loss from old age drastically increased at the higher levels
Mudcrab Hunt event is now a Travel event
Summoned skellies given slightly higher base Prowess
Rada al-Saran now starts with Blademaster and higher base Prowess, gains Ambitious instead of Compassionate
Divayth Fyr base stats somewhat increased, gains the Eccentric trait
Vanus Galerion given tier 5 Learning education (when W&W is active)
Abbey of the Missing Sibling is now Thousand Cults faith
Redguard Creed is now Neutral to the Forgotten God
Yokudan faiths now Forbid worship of the Forgotten God
Made vanilla tooltip about invalid doctrines when creating faiths explain that it was due to incompatible doctrines
Mudcrabs are now encounterable along all coasts
Disabled most character interactions regarding Daedric artifacts
Rework of Wilderking's Court character history setup
Green Pact Bosmer no longer use wood as a feature in their artifacts, may now instead use bone
'The Rise of Thurvokun* decision now requires holding the county containing Fang Lair personally and being a Master Necromancer
c_pridehome is now Two-Moons faith
Pride of Alkosh given a second county
Order of the Hour given a second county
Cultural Identity doctrines renamed to Heritage Identity
Communal Identity doctrines renamed to Cultural Identity
Cultural and Heritage Identity doctrine tooltips rewritten to be clearer
Ku-Vastei decision no longer converts all your holdings into tribes to prevent weird janky stuff
Legalism tenet no longer grants Just and Arbitrary as Virtues and Sins while also requiring this
Altered Virtue and Sin doctrines of some faiths to account for above change

Fixes:

With invaluable help from a community member, dynamic faith hostility should now be properly calculated upon creating a new faith
Fixed autocratic vassals not having obligations set at game start
Fixed RD characters in some cases getting the wrong government type
Fixes related to Pariahs and activities
The AI is now able to adopt special succession laws, like magic electives
Fixed Fight for Survival tradition being available to all cultures, not just Pariahs
Fixed "Reclaim the Legacy of King Eplear Camoran" decision not properly flipping your house members
Rewrote Feudal Council code (again!) to ensure that among your (powerful) vassals, a minimum of 4 are capable adults
Fixed the endless stream of wandering Dremora and undead characters
Removed misleading Arcana gain flag from Secret Vampire trait
Fixed Sorcerous Elective not working as intended
Made Lich/Vampire/Lycan traits be considered opposites, so they cannot ever be stacked
Fixed being able to renounce secret vampirism or lycanthropy from feeling really bad about it during a pilgrimage event
Fixed being able to stack several holy site buildings within the same county
Fixed up the Repurpose Holy Site decision script a bit
Fixed Dragon Temples not giving the piety cost reduction to Summon Dragons
Fixed Frugal tradition not blocking hosting or participating in Feasts
Fixed being able to build tribal holdings in all holding slots, while being unable to build tribes in counties with any other holding than a tribe
Fixed issue with Ilniviri empire tier localization
Fixed issue with Chimer heritage spouse titles
Fixed one case that could lead to landed Hosue of Reveries characters
Fixed several special buildings not applying their effects to the holder
Re-enabled being able to pick Ceremoniarchy HoF when creating a faith
Fixed (vanilla) triggers not accounting for the Rite tenet when deciding whether to create a new HoF or not
Fixed Torvinex dying his hair purple/neon blue
Fixed RD characters missing their shackles
Fixed various misuses of Autocracy vs Feudal in decision loc
Fixed being able to gain the necromancer secret without also gaining the secret necromancer trait
Fixed "Divine Augury - Change Education" decision not accounting for level 5 education traits
Fixed Mage Towers not respecting the Popular Opinion blocker in Autocratic realms
Fixed male Altmer rulers being referred to as princesses
Fixed an event that could instantly kill goblin players
Fixed the Bow of Shadows event being able to fire when unable to give you the artifact
Fixed cats, dogs and other animals giving mudcrab skins
Fixed skeletons becoming wet nurses
Fixed duchy of Silgrad belonging to no Nativity Region
Fixed a few issues causing crashes on Linux (again)
Fixed piety gain exploit from Become Necromancer decision
Fixed AI paying the piety cost twice from Become a Lich
Fixed the AI being unable to switch lifestyles after competing a magic centered one
Fixed Pride of Alkosh flipping to autocratic gov at game start
Fixed forming a custom faith with Mystical Birthright not setting up the HoF properly
Added missing Taiga Hills reference in certain custom loc
Cut a bunch of commented out code
Added various missing localization
Assorted spelling mistakes, errors and minor bugs fixed
Longlived wet nurses no longer resign their position at 45

Known Issues:

Curse of Undead spell does not work when used on a county held by a vassal ruler
"Proclaim the Empire of Tamriel" decision does not change the year from the Second Era to the Third Era
Some tooltips are too large to click the button beneath them (Temporary fix: enable tooltip delay in settings)
Crown Authority effects of other rulers than yourself don't display properly

Elder Kings II v.0.13.1 'Warp in the West'(October 15th, 2023)

New:

Added three river crossings in Black Marsh

Changes:

Changed Pale Pass Holy Site for Court of Dawn's Beauty to Rhalta
Cut Baar Dau Holy Site for Baandari Code
Added links to birthsign traits in Mundus Stone travel event
Vardengroet of the Doomcrag Academy now actually knows some spells
Changed "unmoored from Mundus" death reason to be more informative
Blocked the fp2 event Compromising Position from firing ever again

Fixes:

Ruler Designer should now function as before, displaying birth signs, furstocks, arcana etc
Portrait debug button on character windows hidden
Fixed being able to pick mismatching Ethnicity and Heritage in RD in some cases
Assorted fixes to GUI windows

Holy Sites:

Fixed tribals being unable to construct holy site buildings
Fixed holy site buildings in some cases not properly converting to the correct version, instead simply disappearing
Fixed holy site buildings not giving the builder piety as it is supposed to

Vampire Pandemic:

Reduced frequency of vampire encounter travel event
Reduced AI willingness to risk infection during vampire encounter travel event
Reduced chance to get infected during vampire encounter travel event

Other:

Fixed one potential cause for MP desyncs
Fixed faulty DNA for High Chieftain Ulmug on Bookmark Screen
Cut 527 bookmark wrongly appearing in multiplayer (not in development yet, sorry!)
Fixed an issue related to Magicka regeneration, should hopefully work better now
Fixed dead Fharun founder being of wrong dynasty
Fixed tier 2 Mage Tower being unbuildable
Fixed a faulty bridge in Black Marsh
Prettied up perk loc for magic perks
Fixed "Host a Grand Rite" activity cycling through many different possible names for the Daedric Princes
Fixed broken HoF for Numenist faith
Fixed being able to gain Christian Saint bones during pilgrimages
Removed reference to Ireland and Cathay in a nickname description
Fixed some nicknames displaying the wrong (vanilla) description
Removed reference to Vikings
Removed an Imga decal causing crashes
Added missing skill icons to several event options
Fixed dragons being seen as a lowly quarry during hunts
Accounted for level 5 Education Traits in various tenets and traditions
Fixed Experimentalist and Secret Necromancer traits being stackable
Fixed missing illustration for Spellblades MaA (again!)
Fixed broken requirements for third level Orsinium Special Building
Fixed an issue with Altmeris liturgical language
Fixed "Request a new Realm Priest" being unavailable for Soul of Anu
Fixed an issue with the Bangkorai nativity region
Fixed Ruler Designed Feudal rulers becoming Autocracies
Fixed Military Orders being playable
Fixed Blood Legacy not being properly blocked for non-Divine Purity faiths
Added missing tooltip about prisoner escape change for level 2 Bastion
Fixed repeatable "Return Viridian Woods to the Sentinel" decision
Fixed repeatable "Return Beldama to the Wyrd" decision
Fixed repeatable "Form Greater Bangkorai" decision
Fixed the "Return Beldama to the Wyrd" decision giving the Beldama Wyrd HoF infinite opinion gain of themselves
Fixed House and Dynasty Heads being unable to offer diplomatic vassalisation to house members/dynasts
Fixed/adjusted all Elsweyr Locators
Fixed/adjusted all Valenwood Locators
Fixed De Rerum Dirennis decision not requiring Bangkorai
Dremora can no longer become undead
Mindless characters can no longer participate in activities
Fixed some broken triggers for Pariahs regarding activities
Prevented the AI from permanently unmooring themselves from the Mundus
Removed a wrongly assigned DNA from Jarl Hjorta of Hjaalmarch
Commented out a bunch of unused vanilla code
Added various missing localization
Assorted spelling mistakes, errors and minor bugs fixed

Known Issues:

Curse of Undead spell does not work when used on a county held by a vassal ruler
Faith hostility numbers don't always add up correctly, in particular for the Auri-El faith
"Proclaim the Empire of Tamriel" decision does not change the year from the Second Era to the Third Era
Some tooltips are too large to click the button beneath them (Temporary fix: enable tooltip delay in settings)
Crown Authority effects of other rulers than yourself don't display properly

Elder Kings II v.0.13 'Warp in the West'(October 8th, 2023)

Elder Kings 2 brought up to date with CK3 1.10.2

New:

Map Related:

Overhauled the outline of High Rock alongside many titles:
- Remodelled terrain of Wayrest and Daggerfall coasts to be more in line with pre-ESO depictions
- Remodelled terrain of Bjoulsae to better resemble a river
- Remodelled terrain of Skyrim/High Rock border to better resemble pre-Skyrim descriptions of the area
- Added k_jehanna as a new de_jure kingdom of e_high_rock
- Moved c_daggerfall to the east of Glenumbra, relocated counties on Daggerfall peninsula to be in line with their TES2 appearance
- Moved c_evermore to the west bank of the Bjoulsae
- Southern Bangkorai is now a de_jure kingdom of e_hammerfell
- Added 5 new counties to the Greater Wrothgar region, including a county for c_old_orsinium
- Added 3 new counties to k_camlorn
- Added 1 new county to k_shornhelm
- Added 1 new county to k_northpoint
- Added 2 new counties to k_wayrest
- Added 1 new county to k_evermore
- Added 2 new counties to k_daggerfall
- Updated papermap for this region
Overhauled the history/ruler setup of High Rock to be more interesting including:
- Adding a second (often dead) parent to almost every ruler
- Adding a spouse to almost every ruler
- Adding more relatives to almost every ruler
- Set traits and birthdays for every ruler + most of their relatives
- For F&F owners: added feud between Moile (Evermore) and Guimard (Bangkorai)
- Added DNA to many rulers
Minor Summerset Rework
- Added 5 baronies, 1 county to Summerset
- Swapped the baronies b_durell and b_lilanor on Summerset
- Shifted b_aarveli from c_alt_nir to c_crystal on Summerset
Minor Northern Tamriel Mountains Rework
- remodelled all Northern Tamriel Mountainranges to avoid texture repetition
- Added multiple mountain passes along the Hammerfell/Cyrodiil, Skyrim/Cyrodiil and Skyrim/Hammerfell borders
- Added 2 new mountain passes between Skyrim/Cyrodiil, including 1 new county
- Added 1 new mountain pass between Hammerfell/Cyrodiil
- Added 1 new mountain pass between Hammerfell/Skyrim
- Added 3 new mountain passes between High Rock/Skyrim
- Added multiple mountain passes between Craglorn and Sunforge
Unsquared and unstraightened a lot of barony/county borders mostly in High Rock, Skyrim, Cyrodiil & Summerset
Added a d_silgrad to k_velothis
Added decision to de_jure shift d_silgrad between Skyrim/Morrowind/Cyrodiil
Added 1 barony to Pankor in Hammerfell
Added lore bridges to Cheydinhal, so navigating the county is easier
Added AI generated decision illustration for all our title related decisions
Added the Viridian Sentinel as a character
Added decision for Druid Circles rulers to return Viridian Woods to the Viridian Sentinel
Added decision to return Beldama to the Beldama Wyrd
Reworked High Rock county development spread
Reworked Cyrodiil county development spread

Mines:

Mount Hattu Onyx Mine added to Hattu in Yokuda
Zazaradi's Quarry and Mine added to Zazaradi in Elsweyr
Iron Mines of Mud-Tree added to Stormhold in Black Marsh
Hfirorg Salt Mines added to Icewind in Skyrim
Mobar Obsidian Mines added to Mobar in Valenwood
Ebony Mines added to Othrenis and Caldera in Morrowind, Narzulbur in Skyrim
Glass Mines added to Ashan, Molag Mar and Falensarano in Morrowind, Tinistegil and King's Pass in Alinor
Orichalc Mines added to Cumberland in High Rock, Zanzar in Yokuda, Mor Khazgur in Skyrim, Gushnukbur in Valenwood
Gold Mines added to Sundercliff and Broke Pick in Cyrodiil, Cortenmont in Hammerfell, Tel Sadas in Morrowind
Silver Mines added to Argent in High Rock, Drakelowe and Drad in Cyrodiil, Diss in Valenwood

High Rock Special Buildings:

Castle Daggerfall
Castle Wayrest
Beldama Wyrd Tree
Doomcrag Tower
Northpoint Beacon
King Torug's Tomb
Fang Lair
Bangkorai Garrison
Burg Tusktrutz
Sanctum of Ire
Shrine of Ilni
Grayhome Citadel

Hammerfell Special Buildings:

Sentinel Palace/Samuruik
Ar-Azal's High Tower
Skaven Firedancer College
Swordsingers Crypt
Tower of the Fifth Doctrine
Merchant Lords' Harbour
Taria Salt Fields
Dwarven Observatory (Stros M'Kai)
Dervish Grounds

Valenwood Special Buildings:

Silvenar Palace
Eldenroot Palace
Ruined Labyrinth
Treehenge Resting Place
Vinedusk Lookout
Haven Docks
Heart of Valenwood
Tower of the Wilderking's Throne

Elsweyr Special Buildings:

Rimmen Palace
Tonenaka Shrine
Hakoshae Tombs
Rimmen Necropolis
Sunspire Temple
Hidden Moon Crypt
Shadow Dance Temple
Dov-Vahl Shrine
Corinthe Archive
Pridehome Temple
Hall of Colossus
Halls of the Highmane
Senchal Palace
Potentate's Retreat
Temple of Mourning Springs
Two Moons Path Temple

Cyrodiil Special Buildings:

Great Chapel of Julianos
Great Chapel of Stendarr
Great Chapel of Akatosh
Great Chapel of Arkay
Great Chapel of Mara
Great Chapel of Dibella
Great Chapel of Kynareth
Great Chapel of Shezarr
Chapel of the Eight
Anvil Harbourside
Artemon Channels
St. Bravillius District
Pantherfang Chapel
Harcane Grove
Scrollkeepers Vault
Hot Springs of Mir Corrup
Hot Springs of Cae Suvio

Black Marsh Special Buildings:

Blackrose Prison
Twyllbek Ruins
Archon Harbour District
Thorn Palace
Puzzle City
Kota-Xul Xanmeer

Other Special Buildings:

Parliament of Bugs added to Telvannis in Morrowind
Volkihar Castle added to Volkihar in Skyrim
Tomb of the Snowprimce added to Solvjord on Solstheim
Mathiisen Forge District added to Mathiisen in Summerset
Banished Cells added to Rilis in Summerset
Colossus of Gonfalon Bay added to Gonfalon in the Systres
Amenos Station added to Amenos in the Systres
Hira Free Port added to Nar-Shad in Yokuda
Temple of the Ansu-Gurleht added to Kasa in Yokuda

Imga:

Imga, the Apemen of Valenwood, added
One new culture with an unique tradition and unique MaA
Two new faiths added, Ius Cult and Soul of Anu

Magic:

Arcane Clash:

Arcana Clash Tournament Phase added
Magical themed tournament art added
Hastiluder trait given a Magic path
Arcane Clash victory grants a Staff type artifact

Other Magic:

Added Mage Towers building type for boosting Mage and Spellblade unit types
Hostile province spells can now be used when traveling
Using hostile spells is now considered a crime
Using hostile spells can now result in them gaining a CB to imprison the caster
If imprisoned after using a hostile spell, your captor can now use the Disrupt interaction on the caster
Court Mages can now cast spells independently without needing to be managed by the player
New interaction "Instruct Court Mage" added to allow you to decide whether your court mage should manage themselves or not
Court Mages of AI rulers will now cast spells, so that not only AI rulers cast themselves
Rituals now show their effect before they are enabled
Hire Alteration Mage travel option

Universities and Academies:

Visitable universities are Academies, Special Buildings with a Learning Point of Interest, and Holy Site SBs of your faith
Academies added to Caer Suvio, Blueblood, Soulrest, Arnesia, Solitude, Cambray, Daggerfall and Doomcrag
University visits are blocked for vampires, lycanthropes and undead based on crime doctrines
University visits blocked for Pariahs based on host view on Pariahs

Lore Compendium:

Added a new type of Game Concept to provide lore background on EK2 mechanics. Recognizable via golden hyperlink (vs usual blue).
Added lore entry for the Second Era

Other:

Many new events related to travel
Silverhoof culture added, replacing the Horsemen in Silverhoof Vale.
New Numenism faith added for the Orma
New Wilderking pantheon doctrine added
Added descriptions to most EK nicknames
Several new nicknames added
Nicknames formerly included by the integrated mod Epithet adapted to fit new 1.9 vanilla nickname systems
Nicknames can now by default only be given to one living character at a time
Khajiit skeletons now have Khajiit skulls
Undead visual decay system implemented, slowly turning undead into skeletons
Eyeless trait added, genetic trait given to the Betrayed and Orma
New building icons for certain special buildings
Clergy holding specific great temples will now be given an appropriate patron trait (i.e. Zenithar for Grand Abbey-Bazaar)
New "Fight for Survival" tradition added, given to Goblins and Riekr, replacing Practiced Pirates
New "Symbols of Power" innovation added, replacing Primal Tradition for the Riekr
Added 250+ new or edited CoA by the community
Added several character DNAs by the community
36 new CoA emblem variants of current emblems added
43 new CoA emblems with Altmeri calligraphy added
Text based CoA emblems split off into their own Elder Kings Writing category
New regiment icons and illustrations for several MaA
EK is now displayed as a "DLC" in the main menu, and events added by EK will be marked as such
Incapable rulers may now abdicate by decision
Added ruler title localization for Worm Cult
Added bookmark entry for Ulmug Fharun in the 450 "The Tower's Shadow" bookmark
Added "Reclaim the Legacy of King Eplear Camoran" decision akin to "Reclaim Reman's Legacy" for the Camoran dynasty
Added important action notification for when a courtier has an inspiration
Added mottos to various dynasties all over Tamriel

Changes:

Compatch:

Many EK events reworked to fit into new 1.9 Activity or Travel frameworks
Traditions edited to account for new 1.9 effects
Tenets edited to account for new 1.9 effects
Buildings edited to account for new 1.9 effects
Grand Tournaments can now be held in any barony within a county you hold, not just your personal domain
Replaced EK2 Bow artifacts with new 1.9 vanilla Bow artifacts
Bows no longer fire errors, just arrows

Harm events:

Vanilla harm events edited to better account for our long lived characters
Increased cooldown on harm events
Harm events that previously could only render you incapable are now also able to kill you
Reduced lethality of other harm events to compensate
Included trigger to spare specific characters from harm events at all

Holy Sites:

Dynamic Holy Sites and all associated content cut (didn't survive compatch to 1.9)
Every faith assigned 3-5 Holy Sites with effects
Several special buildings previously requiring holder to consider them a holy site have had their requirements changed
New "Holy Site" Building added, instantly flipped to the building appropriate to your faith upon completion, to get around building slot limitations
"Lay Ground for a Holy Building" decision renamed "Repurpose Holy Site", instantly flips buildings type rather than just remove the old one

Other Faith Related:

Beldama Wyrd given a Head of Faith
Courtiers under a Praxis government now also have a Praxis score, not just rulers
Julianos patron trait edited to not be identical to Magnus
Arkay and Phynaster patron traits edited to not be identical
Namira Cult and Glenmoril Wyrd now accept vampires
The vanilla decision to hold a gruesome festival can no longer be taken if only a vassal faith allows it
Edits to Cantemiric Sect tenets, Cantemiric culture history setup
Daedric Worshiper and Champion traits give negative Zealot vassal opinion if your faith does not allow worship of that Prince
Blood Dynasty Legacy locked to faiths with the Divine Purity tenet

Languages:

Cut some languages only used by one culture, consolidated the rest
Galen and Bjoule gain Old Bretic. Horwalli and Kothringi gain South Nedic. Keptu, Duraki and Men-of-Kreath gain Western Nedic. Yespest gains Ayleidoon. Betrayed gains Falmeris. Current Falmeris renamed Ald Falmeris. Ald Cyrod got overhauled desc
Galen, Kothri, Horwalli, Yespest, Perena, Gemha, Duraki, Keptu, Kraethish cease to exist as separate languages

Special Buildings:

Great House Tomb Special Buildings moved to be in castle holdings to make them usable for players
Cut Ayleid Ruins of Belda Special Building
4 of 5 Nirncrux mines in Craglorn cut (it was waay too much)
Lilmoth New City special building reworked (to be somewhat less punishing)
Krona Konu Xanmeer SB given new effects
Bridges of Leyawiin Duchy Building made a Special Building
Rebalanced income from mine buildings
Switched around many Special Building icons for variety
Special buildings now mostly give their effects to county holder, to make their effects apply without having to hold a city or temple in some cases
Arena type buildings now give a Grand Tournament cost reduction

Renames:

'Imperium Saliache' Ayleid cultural name for Cyrodiil renamed 'Imperatum Saliache'
County of Zamunda in Yokuda renamed Hattu
Empire game concept renamed to High Kingdom to fit naming scheme in EK2
Horsemen culture renamed to Horse-Folk
First Era innovation era renamed Empire of Men

Other:

Increased marriage acceptance penalty for female rulers when offered a patrilineal marriage from 100 to 140, to help avoid them wiping out their dynastic lines so much
Unlocking Spellswords MaA moved from Schools of Magic innovation to Codified Magical Studies
A very short Dunmer tunic made somewhat less short
Visit Orphanage decision cooldown increased from 1 to 10 years
Duchy of Ghartok made Autocratic
Mazzatun in Black Marsh made Autocratic
Tribe of Fharun made Autocratic
Imperial Legion icon replaced
Hidden Cities tradition now include Valenwood terrain
Reworked several EK events into travel events
Adjusted e_reach color to be slightly darker
Ravenwatch vampires now know about each other being vampires, despite it being secret to the world otherwise
Adjusted Empire of the Nords decision to require only holding Dragontail (not all of Craglorn), now also shifts Velothis into Skyrim
EP1 music now plays for any ruler with a capital in mundus_tamriel_skyrim (and for any character of a culture that has Atmoran heritage as before)
Compressed EK image files a lot, drastically reducing the size of the mod
Adjusted costs for the "Reclaim Reman's Heritage" decision
Daedric Curses and how to lift them are now explained by game concept
Nativity Mapmode Tooltip now explains it doesn't work in Observer Mode
Turn Vampire/Lycanthrope Character Interactions + Schemes now have proper Icons
Reworked Magic related Game Concepts to better inform about the game mechanic
Spells and Rituals Game Concepts are now linked in the Spellbook
All living Ilniviri now know how to speak Tsaesci

Fixes:

Fixed some mismatching casing of EK files, should resolve crash issues on Linux (NOTE: Requires a fully fresh install of EK2 to apply)
Fixed issues with using Vulkan
Fixed mystery province adjacency between a barony in Morrowind and a barony in Elsweyr
Fixed information on some MaA types overflowing the GUI
Fixed several mine buildings not displaying their requirements
House of Reveries characters can no longer become Court Priest
Fixed lifespan trait inheritance for vampire elves
Fixed the Sundering Undone event for Cyrodiil triggering twice in some cases
Fixed the Sainthood event triggering thrice
Shortened the Magna-Ge patron descriptions so they fit into the window
Fixed Skyrim and Cyrodiil split/reunification events disregarding other formed empires, like Reach and Orsinium
Fixed an issue with kingdom creation decisions when uniting three kingdoms and not two
Vamps, lycans and necromancers can no longer blackmail other vamps, lycans and necromancers over this
Secret necromancers can no longer be targeted by abomination wars
Fixed divergent cultures not getting the default culture desc
Age equivalency applied to marriage, romance and seduction logic
Betrayed no longer use the White Gold throne room
Fixed Altmer naming convention using the wrong words for matronyms and patronyms
Fixed an exploit allowing infinite Arcana gain from Become Necromancer event line
Fixed the Claim Corpse spell not working in some cases
Fixed Goblins and Riekr not spawning with MaA at game start like other cultures do
Fixed generic nicknames overwriting some unique preset ones
Fixed existing/lore Breton dynasty names being used for randomly generated Breton dynasties
Fixed Solstheim missing winter severity values
Fixed multiple wrong province_terrains all over Tamriel
Fixed multiple wrong locators all over Tamriel
Fixed Blighted Isle not connecting to the county it belongs to (c_glen)
Fixed misgendering Daedric Princes in secret worship exposure event
Fixed an issue with the Ku-Vastei "Return to Tribal Ways" decision
Added disclaimer to hybridization window, stating that some innovations will not be gained after all
Added missing description for Dremora heritage
Added back in missing tooltips for various Crown Authority levels
Fixed being able to add Arkay or Xarxes to your pantheon while Vampirism or Necromancy is accepted
Some holy orders existing at game start now get the correct names
Fixed some hunt events not properly killing you as they were supposed to
Assorted spelling mistakes, errors and minor bugs fixed
Fixed some vanilla music not playing
Fixed Dremora and Lilmothiit having beards
Fixed academy holdings being unbuildable
Fixed tradeports being unbuildable
Added missing faith customizable localization
Added check to ensure immortals got no age modifiers
Fixed EK2 lifestyles not appearing in the vanilla lifestyle Game Concept description.
Removed major lore and ek2 dynasties from Nord and Yokudan/Redguard Namelists, so fake duplicate dynasties won't appear anymore.
Fixed daedric artifacts not being demandable and duelable
Fixed some bookmark screens not being centered/characters and their territory being behind UI elements

Known Issues:

Ruler Designer currently lacks the ability to set arcana
Curse of Undead spell does not work when used on a county held by a vassal ruler
Faith hostility numbers don't always add up correctly, in particular for the Auri-El faith
"Proclaim the Empire of Tamriel" decision does not change the year from the Second Era to the Third Era
Some tooltips are too large to click the button beneath them (Temporary fix: enable tooltip delay in settings)
Crown Authority effects of other rulers than yourself don't display properly
Royal Court Amenities of pirate governments don't display properly for non-pirates and vice versa
Activity Locators spawning inside holding locators (intentional, until every activity locator gets a manually choosen location)

Elder Kings II v.0.12.2 'Eye of Magnus'(June 17th, 2023)

New:

A handful new CoA and dynasty mottos

Changes:

Creating a new faith with Mystical Birthright HoF now makes the player the HoF
Daedric Champions who already belong to a faith dedicated to their Prince will no longer be encouraged to convert to the Cult faith
Non-tribal rulers with a faith with the Ku-Vastei tenet may now change their government to tribal by decision

Fixes:

Fixed crashing issue introduced with the 0.12.1 patch
Fixed Feudal governments being only able to appoint vassals as councilors when they don't even have vassals
Fixed hybridizing or diverging with a culture native to Summerset not properly clearing the old nativity
Fixed Spellswords MaA missing its illustrations
Fixed Strong Communal Identity doctrine not applying any conversion malus
Fixed Denizens of Lost Orsinium not actually giving a culture conversion bonus within de jure Orsinium
Using the option to settle Orcs in Orsinium now actually converts the county to the Orc culture
Fixed automatically resetting your choice of patron every 5 years when using the Mnemo-li and Xero-Lyg patrons
Fixed Ceremoniarchy HoF being uncreatable
Assorted minor errors and spelling mistakes

Known Issues:

Curse of Undead spell does not work when used on a county held by a vassal ruler
Faith hostility numbers don't always add up correctly, in particular for the Auri-El faith
When forming a cultural hybrid, the new culture will not gain all innovations the hybridisation window claims it will (THIS WORKS AS INTENDED, JUST THE WINDOW INFO IS WRONG)
"Proclaim the Empire of Tamriel" decision does not change the year from the Second Era to the Third Era
Some tooltips are too large to click the button beneath them (Temporary fix: enable tooltip delay in settings)
The mod does not properly work when using Vulkan
Linux users experience crashes

Elder Kings II v.0.12.1 'Eye of Magnus'(May 28th, 2023)

New:

When starting as a Vampire, Lycanthrope or Necromancer ruler using the Ruler Designer, an event pops up giving you the option to be so secretly
Added icon for Lycanthrope secret
New Extinct Race innovation given to Falmer and Dwemer, replacing Dead Culture. This innovation explains that these cultures cannot ever be revived, and prevent them from being revived even if they have living same-heritage relatives. The even at game start when using Ruler Designer still works as before
New 'Join the Council of the Eight' decision added, letting a faith gain the shared Head of Faith with other Divines faiths. Available to faiths with the Divines, Nordic Pantheon, Redguard Pantheon, Nedic Pantheon or Cyrodiilic Cult doctrines, but without a HoF already

Changes:

Undead Hordes no longer spawn as Ghost-Hist when not Argonian
Cut Hidden Moon as a potential faith for Undead Hordes
Undead Hordes in Atmoran heritage counties may now also sometimes be Dragon Cult faith
Changed Dwemer nativity region from White River to East Ghost
Daedric Monolatrist faiths now also get prompted to pick a patron
Rewrote formula for checking age equivalent to human age (for long lived races)
Reenabled old age as a modifier for marriage acceptance (disabled with 0.12), using the new age equivalency formula
Added tooltips about requirements for Prowess, Arcana and Devotion vassal obligations
Gave Ivulan 'the Apostate' the Ebony Mail
Faiths sharing a Head of Faith now get -5 Faith Hostility with each other
Disallowed Lycanthropes from becoming liches
Removed Sanguinare Vampiris and Sanies Lupinus traits from Ruler Designer (didn't play nice with other stuff)

Fixes:

Fixed Feudal government not accounting for some powerful vassals being children or otherwise invalid councilors when deciding who may be appointed to your council
Fixed Necromancy event chain sometimes not wrapping up
Fixed tiny clickable area for Dark Arts lifestyle
Fixed Ruler Designer characters not getting the correct Arcana assigned
Fixed Betrayed missing the Migratory innovation
Fixed vampire characters ageing to look old for no good reason
Fixed Piety/Devotion exploit with Become Lich decision
Fixed some errors with Become Necromancer decision requirements
Fixed wrong scaling magicka cost for Raise Dead
Fixed Betrayed and Falmer traditions being able to stack
Fixed Falmer culture having access to Disorganized Military innovation
Fixed Breton cultures having access to Mnemolichite Foci innovation
Fixed Mapping the Planes event giving too many options when you have many Daedra in your pantheon
Fixed crash issue when preset divergence names overlapped
Fixed a bunch of broken tradition localization
Fixed court event requesting the liege host a feast when their culture has the Frugal tradition
Fixed Karthspire randomly becoming a tribe in 450
Fixed non-tribe, feudal or autocratic rulers from adopting Rule by Might succession, which messes with non-dynastic governments big time
Fixed marriage acceptance not checking for age equivalent to human age, simply age
Fixed AI being unable to use Send to Legion interaction
Fixed some cases of undead characters appearing in events when they shouldn't
Assorted spelling errors
Assorted minor errors

Known Issues:

Curse of Undead spell does not work when used on a county held by a vassal ruler
Faith hostility numbers don't always add up correctly, in particular for the Auri-El faith
When forming a cultural hybrid, the new culture will not gain all innovations the hybridization window claims it will (THIS WORKS AS INTENDED, JUST THE WINDOW INFO IS WRONG)
"Proclaim the Empire of Tamriel" decision does not change the year from the Second Era to the Third Era
Some tooltips are too large to click the button beneath them (Temporary fix: enable tooltip delay in settings)
The mod does not properly work when using Vulkan
Linux users experience crashes

Version: v.0.12 'Eye of Magnus' (07/May/2023)

Elder Kings II v.0.12 'Eye of Magnus'

REQUIRES A NEW SAVE

New:

AI Magic:

The AI is now able to cast magic and use rituals
The AI will now spend perk points in the Magic lifestyles
Court Mages now gain Magic lifestyle XP over time Necromancy:
New Dark Arts Lifestyle added, containing the new Necromancy Lifestyle tree
4 new Necromancy spells - Summon Undead Knight, Leech Health, Claim Corpse and Curse of Undeath
Necromancy rituals
Becoming a Necromancer is now an event chain, not merely a decision. Requirements adjusted
Becoming a Lich now triggers an event with risk involved, not merely a decision. Requirements adjusted
Necromancers may now be so in secret
Many new events dealing with Necromancy Other Magic Additions:
New coping trait: Experimentalist
Mannimarco, Chiluk the Ancient, Keerasa the White-Queen and Divayth Fyr now start with some magic event troops Dead Culture Revival:
When starting as a Dwemer, Falmer or Betrayed ruler using the Ruler Designer, an event pops up giving you the option of making the culture lose Dead Culture Culture Hybridisation:
Cultures of the same species (humans with humans, elves with elves) may now form cultural hybrids (Integration of submod) Pariah Folk:
Pariah Folk mechanic added, applying to Orcs, Goblins and the Betrayed
Pariah vassals at game start given Cultural Rights
New game concepts to explain these mechanics Daedric Race:
The new Daedric Race innovation replaces Dead Culture for Dremora
This specifies that Dremora cannot be "revived" like other Dead Cultures
Cultures with this innovation may be targeted similarly to Pariahs, except Daedric Race cannot be lost Aetherial religion:
Magna-Ge religion renamed to Aetherial
New faiths added: Magna-Ge, Magnus Cult, Scaled Court
These may appear as heresies for Celestial Cult (Magna-Ge, Scaled Court) or Breton Rite/Bretic faiths (Magnus Cult) Meridia religion:
New faith added: Ilpenada, for Daedraphile Ayleids
Cult of Meridia Ayleids set to Ilpenada Azura religion:
New faith added: Order of the Hidden Moon
Ashen Scar county set to Order of the Hidden Moon The Deep religion:
Deep Ones religion renamed to The Deep
New faith added: Temple of Xrib, for the Betrayed Hist religion:
New Living Law pantheon added, for the Lilmothiit Living Law faith
Unique descriptions for Living Law patrons added Reach religion:
New Old Gods pantheon added, replacing Daedric Princes with Divines Secondary Pantheon for the Old Gods faith Velothi religion:
New faith added: Tribunal Cult, with new Good Daedra Secondary Pantheon
Shares Head of Faith with the Tribunal Temple
Primarily present among Great House Dres
Added new icons for the Good Daedra patrons Nedic-Nordic religion:
Nedic Aedra pantheon revamped, renamed to Nedic Pantheon
Now unlocks Arkay, Dibella, Mara, Kynareth, Zenithar and Shezarr, with unique names
Faith, pantheon and patron descriptions updated
Faith icon changed Magic Tutorial:
It now actually exists!
Works like regular game advice when using the Magic lifestyle New cultural traditions:
Knight-Paladins for Falmer
Chaurus Husbandry and Pale Shamans for Betrayed
Deep Lore and Inoxidizable Metallurgy for Dwemer
New MaA added for these three cultures Other:
Missing God, Nordic Pantheon, Redguard Pantheon, Nedic Pantheon Secondary Pantheons added
Yespest variant of the Ayleid Court Room added - for now used by both Yespest and Ayleids
New on-map holding models for Westholder culture added
One new loading screen
Amulet of Kings added as an accessory
New events and artifacts for Dunmer
New Ahnurr and Fadomai Special Doctrine to Khajiit faiths reducing hostility with all Aedric family faiths
Patron trait icons to Forgotten Gods, Thousand Cults and Attrebus (should he become a saint)
330+ new community made CoA for dynasties and titles
New community made DNA applied to some characters
New icons for all EK innovations
New icons for some MaA
New icons for some traditions
36 Coat of Arms assets for Argonians ported over and adapted from EK1
Elegance of the Empire assets accounted for
Several new assorted events added
Added a lot of new tooltips to better explain various EK2 mechanics

Changes:

Faith Hostility:

Faith hostility made clearer by adding tooltips to every relevant factor explaining their impact
Cut Sins and Virtues from the calculation to simplify it
Game concepts related to Faith Hostility updated to better explain how the calculation works
Faiths with a Daedra as part of their pantheon now gets reduced hostility with Daedric Monolatrist faiths dedicated to that Daedra
Daedra Doctrines of all faiths reworked to make their view of the individual Daedra more nuanced. The base stance is now Shunned rather than Criminal Missing God Doctrine:
The Missing God doctrine no longer unlocks Shezarr as a patron or makes it a sin. The faith hostility effect remains as before.
Instead, the following pantheons unlock it directly: Nedic Aedra, Living Law, Old Gods
Totemism, Nordic Pantheon and Thousand Cults pantheons unlock their own versions (Fox/Shor and Cult of the Missing)
Missing God: Falling out of Favour renamed to Missing God: Respected
Since it no longer directly unlocks Shezarr, certain faiths have had their view on the Missing God edited:
Hero Cult, Reman Mysteries, Sanguine Mysteries and all Velothi faiths now set to Respected
Thousand Cults, Totemism, Ternion Totems and all Reach faiths set to Worshipped
As a consequence of this, Imperial Cult no longer has the Shezarr patron
Adding a pantheon containing Shezarr or an equivalent (Fox/Shor, Cult of the Missing) now requires setting Missing God to Worshipped
Meanwhile, the Aedra and Magnus pantheon doctrines require setting Missing God to Forbidden
New custom names/descriptions for the Shezarr patron added (Lorkhan, Sheor, Tseol, version of Lorkh for Nedic Aedra) Orsinium:
Denizens of Lost Orsinium innovation replaced by a tradition, given to Mountain Orcs but available to other Orc cultures too
Reduced costs of Orsinium special building
Updated tooltips for Orsinium special building to better explain how it works
The Greater Orsinium decision now integrates completely controlled kingdom titles as de jure Falmer, Betrayed, Dwemer:
Falmer now native to all of Skyrim+Solstheim, except Karth
Dwemer now native to Velothis Mountains, Dark Water, White River and Karth alongside Vvardenfell
Betrayed remains Migratory
Betrayed given Disorganized Military, gains new Crag Warfare innovation instead unlocking unique MaA
Updated culture and faith descriptions for Falmer and Betrayed. Added missing language description for Falmeris Magic:
Rituals are now tied to unlocking perks, each Magic Lifestyle tree now contain an additional three perks
Rituals now have a 1 year cooldown so they cannot be immediately enabled and disabled again
Rebalance of spell and ritual effects and Magicka costs
Rework of available spells and rituals, some added, changed or cut where they overlapped too much
Magic Lifestyle XP gain is now capped at +40%, like other Lifestyles
Magic Pragmatic Focus renamed Thaumaturgic
Aptitude calculation for Court Mages reworked
Court Mage position now gives +1 Arcana Necromancy:
Adjusted view on Necromancy and Undead for several faiths
New trait icon for Undead
Mastery over Undeath tenet reworked
Mannimarco doctrine renamed to King of Worms
King of Worms doctrine icon resized
Lamae Bal doctrine renamed to Blood Matron Other:
Reform Military decision now only requires finishing two Military Lifestyle trees, but requires high prestige level
Removed age as a factor for marriage acceptance to avoid very long lived characters going "help I'm growing old, pls marry me" and always accepting offers
Introduced new blockers on AI behaviour for isolationist cultures, which should reduce them marrying outside their heritage. Especially so for Pariahs
Visit Orphanage decision now shows the requirements for adoption
Reduced cooldown for recruiting a priest knowing your liturgical language from 5 years to 1
Shadowscale content is now also available to Amber Hist faiths
Occultist trait and content surrounding it has been cut (it didn't work properly and nobody really knew what it was meant to be/wanted to work on it)
Council of the Eight and content surrounding it has been cut (it didn't work properly and nobody really knew what it was meant to be/wanted to work on it)
Imperial Cult, Redguard Creed, Breton Rite, Thousand Cults and Cult of Heroes now share Head of Faith
When creating a new faith, Bretic Traditions, Spirits of the Reach and Ahnurr and Fadomai Special Doctrines are now kept
Cut Clan-Mothers tenet (redundant beside the innovation of the same name)
Black Marsh Materials innovation moved from Unification Wars innovation era to Early Interregnum
Update of Daedric Cult faiths Sins and Virtues
Updated effects of some patron traits
Updated desc for Green Pact patrons
Reduced base piety cost of Daedra Doctrines somewhat
Also reduced piety cost multiplier from changing faith doctrines in general by 0.25
Dawn Court faith given the Divines Secondary Pantheon with Akatosh, Mara and Stendarr to show its syncretism with Imperial Cult
Updated requirements for most unique cultural traditions to account for hybridisation
Daedric Champion traits no longer gives a flat +25 Same Faith opinion, now instead considered a Virtue to their respective Daedric Monolatrisms
Reman Cult is no longer Imperial Cultural Identity, as most of its adherents are Ilniviri anyway
Sorcerous Elective candidates are now extended family of holder, not the whole dynasty (performance reasons)
Rework of Ohmes Khajiit furstock visuals
Some changes to culture parentage
Perena culture renamed to Hared
Soulbound Defenders tradition removed from Hared
Hared and Gemha cultures now speak the Ald Cyrod language
Rimmenese and Nibenu now speak the Cyrodiilic language
Ancestor Moth, Ni-Mohk and Alma temples are now ruled by Thousand Cult priests with the Ancestor Moth patron trait
Veeskhleel faith renamed to Ghost-Hist, changes to tenet and doctrine setup
Faith of some counties in southern Black Marsh set to Ghost-Hist
Keerasa the White-Queen set to Ghost-Hist
Changes to Satakal and Ruptga tenets
Some tenet icons switched around
Some Nibenese rulers in southern Nibenay set to Nibenu culture
Various history changes

Fixes:

Halved AI frequency in infecting others with vampirism, hopefully containing the vampire pandemic a little
Fixed exposing a secret vampire making their visual age match their actual age
Fixed long-lived characters visually aging when becoming vampires
Ravenwatch vampires are now hush hush about the whole thing
Fixed looking at another faith's patrons not displaying the proper icon/description
Fixed the AI unlocking dynasty legacies they shouldn't be able to unlock
Fixed Ceremoniarchy government not being able to change vassal levy/tax obligations
Fixed broken notification icon for available magic lifestyle perks
Fixed unlanded characters (and court mages) not regenerating magicka
Fixed Found Holy Order decision endlessly cycling through all possible names of a Daedric Prince
Fixed some nicknames endlessly cycling various names for the Daedric Princes
Fixed some characters having two patron traits
Accounted for Disinherited characters in Rule By Might succession
Fixed the Abecean islands beings considered part of the Camel region (despite no deserts)
Fixed Matriarchal tradition referencing vanilla cultures in its tooltip
Fixed icons for Champion of Hermaeus and Champion of Mehrunes not displaying properly
Added missing Champion traits for Mephala, Peryite, Nocturnal
Fixed Daedric Princes Secondary Pantheon not unlocking Mehrunes Dagon
Fixed Daedra Secondary Pantheon not being accounted for by Faith Hostility
Removed estimate of Faith Hostility with parent faith during faith creation, as the calculation is done afterwards anyway and thus won't be correct
The correct bonus from Level of Devotion when forming or converting to a faith with an Aspect should now be applied
Added Horse Archers bonus to Aspect of Cavalry
Fixed Khajiit version of Xylo Border Incident decision not properly reverting the old borders
Removed the Attrebus tasks from the Encyclopedia as some apparently found this confusing
Fixed tooltip saying holding more than two duchies is too many (In EK the limit is 3)
Cut tenet tooltips claiming to change names of Patrons (this was in reality always handled by the pantheon itself)
Added missing localisation for new EK terrain in combat
Green Pact tenet now gives bonuses in Valenwood terrains, not simply generic forest/jungle
Fixed issue preventing Clan-Mothers interaction from being used
Fixed some issues with Send to Wander interactions
Nords may now also use the Send to Legion interaction
Added a missing DLC check
Fixed culture tooltips for Cyrodiilic cultures not displaying Nativity Regions properly
Fixed a random Nibenese count being Feudal
Localisation using * as bullet points changed to •
Cut a lot of unused code from various files
Various minor bugfixes, errors and spelling mistakes fixed
Various missing localisation added
Various errors in character history fixed

Known Issues:

Faith hostility numbers don't always add up correctly, in particular for the Auri-El faith
When forming a cultural hybrid, the new culture will not gain all innovations the hybridisation window claims it will (THIS WORKS AS INTENDED, JUST THE WINDOW INFO IS WRONG)
"Proclaim the Empire of Tamriel" decision does not change the year from the Second Era to the Third Era
Some tooltips are too large to click the button beneath them (Temporary fix: enable tooltip delay in settings)
The mod does not properly work when using Vulkan
Linux users experience crashes

Version: 0.11.2a Hotfix "Topal the Pilot" (28/Feb/2023)

Fixes:

Fixed broken dynasty localization
Fixed spells scaling incorrectly when using a court mage
Fixed aging modifiers not getting cleared after getting the graceful aging dynasty perk
Having too many modifiers or traits on a character will no longer overflow the UI

Version: 0.11.2 "Topal the Pilot" (25/Feb/2023)

Fixes:

Resolved the constant crashing issue introduced with the 'Topal the Pilot' 0.11 update
As a consequence, the Parliament of Bugs ability to murder rivals without consequence has been removed for now, to be reintroduced if we can manage it otherwise
Fixed one crash issue related to Sanguine introduced with 0.11.1
Fixed looking at another characters Magicka displaying their current Magicka but your total Magicka
Fixed Unite the Reach Kingdoms decision pulling the duchy of Argent out of Greater Wrothgar and back into the now defunct Fharun if you formed Greater Wrothgar prior to uniting the Reach
Pirates may now also settle down as tribal
Various minor bugs
Various spelling errors
Various missing tooltip localization added

Changes:

Rebalance of most EK2 Men at Arms, including stats, costs and terrain bonuses/maluses
Cultures with Khajiiti Heritage have now access to an unique spellblades MaA
Changed some vanilla troop types to account for Elder Kings terrain types
Added Forest maluses to vanilla cavalry troop types
Forming a Cadet Branch now requires level 4 Prestige, this should drastically reduce the amount of AI dynasty houses
Added a cap to Prowess and Martial gain for Wanderers, this should fix some random landless Elves having 100+ Prowess
Added a slight Prowess bonus to Vampires and Lycanthropes, and a small health bonus to lycans too
House of Reveries characters may no longer marry
Slightly reduced economic bonuses given by the special buildings in Soulrest
Added a few more potential heresies for Redguard and Orc faiths
Mathmeldi are now also native to Malabar Tor and Greenshade
Barsaebics are no longer native to all of Black Marsh, just Onkobra and Black Bays
Yespest are no longer native to Middle Argonia, instead gains Onkobra
Added more dynasty names for cultures with Atmoran heritage
Added more character and dynasty names for cultures with Goblinken heritage
Some edits to CoA and dynasty mottos

New:

20+ Community made Coat of Arms added for dynasties and titles

Version: 0.11.1 "Topal the Pilot" (21/Feb/2023)

Fixes:

Fixed wrongly assigned Crime Doctrines for most Daedric Faiths
Fixed missing Legitimized Bastard trait for a few Bastards that should have been considered Legitimized
Fixed issue with Reach and Daedric faiths having odd or duplicate holy sites
Readded Horse Archers to Bjoule, accidentally removed
Fixed an issue where Malacath Champion was checking for Sheogorath doctrines
Fixed Greater Wrothgar not being accounted for by Form the Reach decision
Fixed the partition or reunification of Skyrim pulling the kingdom of the Reach out of a formed High Kingdom of the Reach, and back into Skyrim or Western Skyrim
Fixed some Dunmer characters missing education traits
Fixed Magicka tooltip of another character showing how much Magicka you have
Fixed an invisible emblem in the CoA designer
Fixed inconsistency in effect of Fortress Monasteries and Fortified Cities
Fixed some Khajiiti patron inconsistency (for real this time)
Added missing icons to Propose Non-marital Alliance, Send Mage to Wander and Send Knight to Wander interactions
Added missing Arcana effect to Skooma Drinker trait
Fixed a missing DLC check
Fixed champion of Vaermina event triggering when there already exists a champion
Fixed an issue with Chukka-Sei events
Ensured you can only be champion of one Daedric Prince at a time
Fixed issue that made vampires, lycanthropes, liches and undead able to contract diseases, causing weird combinations like werewolf vampires, vampire liches etc
Fixed issue where lycantrophes would make people into vampires, not lycans
Reduced chance of contracting vampirism and lycanthropy to hopefully contain the current pandemic of vampires and lycans
Fixed issue where vampire characters with naturally longer lifespans (elves) did not have children with long lifespans
Fixed issue that made Threnody of Lost Love feast event needlessly strict with its choice in who could comfort you
Fixed broken trigger for Imperial Legacy tradition (for real this time)
Fixed broken trigger for Jungle/Jungle Hills terrain based traditions
Fixed inconsistency with Scions of Lamae Bal faith, added an Aspect
Added missing Aspect to Baandari Code faith
Removed prompt to hire a court mage if you have no valid candidate anyway
Disabled Tribals doing shirtless duels, as it caused an issue where duelists would just be wholly naked instead
Various minor spelling mistakes, localization mistakes and errors fixed

Changes:

Rituals are now accessed through a new tab in the spellbook, not as its own button in your character screen
Holy Site and Special Buildings mapmodes now feature an explanation for its color scheme
The three EK2 map modes now have icons
Assorted GUI fixes
Reduced maximum values for vassal contributions for Autocracies, bringing them down to a level more comparable with Feudal government
Reduced the barony building slots in holdings by one, aka back down to the vanilla amount
Daedric Monolatrist faiths now unlock their chosen Prince as a Patron, as part of an ongoing effort to streamline how pantheons work
Daedric Princes Secondary Pantheon added
Streamlined logic for unlocking Daedric Princes through Main Pantheon: Instead of adding the Prince as patron directly, now certain Main Pantheons instead unlock the ability to set the Prince to Pantheon in the individual Daedra Doctrine. This to avoid a paradox where Main Pantheons required setting a Daedra Doctrine to Pantheon, but setting the Daedra Doctrine to Pantheon required the Main Pantheon
Removed the Piety cost for picking No Secondary Deity
Allowed Monolatrist faiths to unlock setting Daedric Doctrines to Pantheon through normal means (Tenets, Doctrines)
Added missing icons for Aspect of the Shadow and House of Troubles pantheon
Replaced placeholder icons for Spirits of the Reach and Bretic Traditions doctrines
Made tooltip explaining how to set Daedric Doctrines to Pantheon clearer
Legalism Tenet now unlocks setting Azura to Pantheon
Deviancy (Accepted) Doctrine now unlocks setting Sanguine to Pantheon
Halved the values gained from Aspect of Knowledge, Aspect of Religious Conflict, Aspect of Harmony, Aspect of Cavalry, Aspect of Control, Aspect of Development, Aspect of the Law and Aspect of the Shadow
Holy Site disabled tooltip now properly explains that you can enable it by making it a Holy Site using the Consecrate Holy Site decision
The Mane Head of Faith title is now duke tier, not king tier
Several cultural traditions unlocking innovations that unlock Men at Arms changed - the innovations are gone and the traditions instead unlock the MaA directly
Camel buildings are now locked to Hammerfell, Yokuda and Anequina
War Mammoths cut for now (maybe to return another time?)
Reachfolk no longer gains Witch Knights by default. They are instead unlocked by the Unite the Reach Kingdoms decision
Unite the Reach Kingdoms no longer requires controlling Elinhir
Spellblades now receive the same bonuses as Mages from legacies, innovations and Academies.
Mage Academy bonuses to mages and spellblades have been updated to properly scale
Mage education traits added to the Ruler Designer
Some traits from both vanilla and EK2 removed from the Ruler Designer
Some changes to RD trait costs
Made Enterprising Merchant-Lords unlock the Metropolitan Legacy. Specified in tooltip that this only counts when Fate of Iberia is active.
Nibenu given Jungle Dwellers tradition instead of Agrarian
Cyro-Nords given Imperial Legacy tradition instead of Honor-Bound
Hereditary Hierarchy and Aedric Lineages traditions are now mutually exclusive
Prescriptivism and Ruling Caste traditions are now mutually exclusive
Vassal Faction Power Threshold reduction from Beasts of War tradition is now tied to the vassal being that culture, not the liege
Marshlanders tradition has had its combat bonuses cut (aka: how to get the Horwalli to stop killing off the Argonians)
Keening, Sunder and Wraithguard artifacts are no longer possible to acquire (for lore reasons)
Daedric artifacts now tell you in the description that they disappear upon death
Daedric artifacts are no longer giftable to get around the aforementioned disappearance
Daedric artifacts are no longer stealable
Cult of Heroes faith followers of Pelinal can now also use the Shield of the Crusader
The AI should now use the Send Knight to Wander and Send Mage to Wander interactions
The AI will now use the Recruit Shadowscale decision
Settle Wrothgar decision is now visible to count tier rulers as well - requirements have not been changed
Aramea Drinith, ruler of Kogoruhn, is now Gah-Julani culture like her county is
Ritual Suicide decision now checks for age equivalent to 60, not simply 60 (Elves)
Reduced AI eagerness to offer Non-marital Alliance a little
The recipient can now no longer have more than one Non-marital Alliance
Empire tier Ashlanders are now called Great Ashkhans
More potential nicknames added to House of Reveries artists
Updated some bookmark character DNAs
Removed marriage feasts for AI for performance reasons
Riddle'thar pantheon no longer includes Boethra
Made Khajiiti faith Daedra crime doctrines more nuanced
Made Reach faith Daedra crime doctrines more nuanced

Version: 0.11 "Topal the Pilot" (5/Feb/2023)

New:

As a vampire or lycanthrope, you may now turn a character into one via interaction
A character can now secretly be a lycanthrope (disguised as the irritable trait)
Through some events you may now contract Sanguinare Vampiris and Sanies Lupinus
Hist and Sithis faith Argonians may request a Shadowscale to join their court
Hist and Sithis faith Argonian children born under the Shadow will be asked to become Shadowscales
New Shadowscale court position added
Decision to form the de jure High Kingdom of Vvardenfell added
Decision to bring Vvardenfell back into de jure Morrowind added
Decisions to make the duchy of Topal into de jure Leyawiin, Senchal or Soulrest added
New special building "Mount Mula Ebony Mines" added to Topal
New decision for Bretons to "Settle Wrothgar", forming the Wrothgarian culture

Culture Traditions In total 52 new cultural traditions. 34 are culture/heritage specific, 18 available for anyone:

Culture/heritage specific:

Aedric Lineages (reworked Ceremoniarchy) for Alinori, and Auridoni
Prescriptivism for Alinori
Remnant Kings for Mathmeldi
Kings-in-Exile for Barsaebic and Dynari
Heartland High Elves for Saliache
Hunting Economy for all Bosmer
House Dunmer for all mainland Dunmer
Bulwark of the West for Gah-Julani
Ordination of War for Chuzei
Parliament of Bugs for Chi Adduni
Cynical Believers for Chi Adduni
Pursuit of Wealth for Armun-Ani
Deshaan Agronomy for Marduhn-Oadi
Red Mountain's Might for Ashlanders
Velothi Exodus for Cantemiric
Geste of Daenia for Glenumbran
Enterprising Merchant-Lords for Iliac
Council of the North for Northmen
River-Horse Bretons for Bjoule
Frontier Knights for Wrothgarian
Headhunters for Horwalli and Reachfolk
Land Dredge for all South Nedes
Reach Folklore for Reachfolk
Soulbound Defenders for Ket-Keptu, Duraki and Perena
Histskin for all Argonians
Saxhleel Mistrust for Paatru, Naga, Sarpa
Naga Underworld for Naga
Feathered Ones for Sarpa
Batracian Blessings for Paatru
Moonsugar Plantations for Pellitinian
Priest Kings for Pellitinian
Beasts of War for Anequinian
Beast Tamers for Goblin, Riekr and Riekling
Proven Shamans for Riekr and Riekling General traditions:
Benevolent Hosts, by default given to Agaceph
Cutthroat Politics, by default given to Alinori, Etarani, Northmen, Iliac, Systrean
Frugal, by default given to Northmen
Fortified Markets, by default given to Wrothgarian
Attuned to Magicka, by default given to Alinori, Auridoni, Balfieri, Saliache, Mathmeldi, Barsaebic, Glenumbran, Systrean, Chi Adduni, Galen, Corelanya, Dynari
Life Menders, by default given to Lilmothiit and Hapsleet
Sacred Marshes, by default given to Hleel
Marshlanders, by default given to Barsaebic, Horwalli and Orma
Fortress Monasteries, by default given to Pellitinian
Deep Strike, by default given to Arenthi
Large Families, by default given to Boiche and Arenthi
Coastal Defences, by default given to Alinori, Auridoni, Corelanya and Systrean
Bloodsport, by default given to Saliache
Wild Magic, by default given to Reachfolk
Brothers-in-Arms, by default given to Gah-Julani
Philosophy of Trade, by default given to Armun-Ani
Wastelanders, by default given to Ashlanders
Arctic Settlers, by default given to Skaal and Riekling
Added 3 custom mapmodes: Nativity Regions, Special Buildings, Holy Sites (does not work in observer mode)
Added 3D gfx for Altmer and Argonian troops, 3 tiers each
Added over 20 dynasty CoA by the community
Added CoA for Alinor, Dusk, Sunhold and Shimmerene duchies
Added a new hairstyle "Elven Hair"
Added two Decisions mirroring each other, "Abstain from Election" and "Participate in Election". They work by adding/removing a character flag that bestows a huge malus to candidate score
New Great House Succession title law added to Redoran, Hlaalu, Indoril and Dres
Forgotten Gods pantheon implemented
Thousand Cults pantheon implemented
Nerevar Secondary Pantheon added, used for High Velothi
Three new Reach religion faiths added; Hircine Coven, Namira Coven and Malacath Coven
New Special Doctrine added to all Reach faiths, Spirits of the Reach, which reduces hostilities between them
New Special Doctrine added to all Bretic faiths and Breton Rite, Bretic Traditions, which reduces hostilities between them
Lorkh patron added, used by Old Gods faith
Cultures with the Knightly Orders innovation (Bretons) may now send young knights on a quest to seek glory, improve their skills and face danger
Beastfolk cultures (Argonians, Khajiit, Goblinken and Lilmothiit) may now arrange one alliance with a ruler of another heritage without marriage, similar to but separate from Defensive Negotiations.
Dremora culture now gains innovations through a special event triggering every 20 years
Added Shalidor's Maze special building to Labyrinthian
Some new events

Changes:

Wrothgarian culture can no longer be revived with the regular "restore dead culture" decision
Reviving cultures now gives them all the innovations currently unlocked by your culture
Prevented adding Meridia to your pantheon without outlawing Vampirism and Necromancy
Daedric religions crime doctrines for other Princes changed. The baseline is now Shunned, with Allowed and Criminal set in specific cases
Divayth Fyr's daughters have been removed for lore accuracy (they'll at least not be created for another 300 years)
Auri-El faith Ayleids in Valenwood are now Malada faith
Halved Development Growth Penalty in Steppes terrain
Players can now refuse their close relatives becoming the Sybil of Dibella
Court Physicians now gain Aptitude for having perks in Restoration
Various changes to Nenalata decision and events
Various changes of cultural tradition and ethos setup for Argonians, Khajiit, Dunmer, Bretons, Bosmer, South Nedes, North Nedes, Yokudans, Reachfolk, Redguards, Altmer and Ayleids
Several traditions and commander traits now properly account for Jungle Hills, Desert Hills and Taiga Hills
Dragon Cult conversion event requirements changed, AI likelihood of taking decision reduced
Spellbook should now explain certain spells a little better
If you get the popup event from the Know Thyself Perk and then become immortal, you don't die after all
Reordered the court positions, so Court Mage and other EK court positions are now listed near the top
Various unlanded characters added
Hagraven Cult faith has been cut, its counties and characters changed to either Old Gods, Namira Coven or Hircine Coven
Hircine Cult and Malacath Cult Reachfolk rulers and counties have been changed to the Coven versions
Various fixes to Reachfolk faith doctrine setup
Ruptga no longer has Communion, since they don't have a Head of Faith.
Forgotten Gods set to Breton Heritage cultural identity rather than Iliac culture
Cantemiric rulers and counties in Black Marsh set to Autocratic, from Tribal
Reduced Miracle Worker being seen as +50 Opinion to +20 for Khajiit faiths
More potential heresies set up for several faiths
Weighted some heresies, so they'll be rarer than others
Added some regional heresies, so that for example Cult of Heroes is more common in Colovia
Regional Heresies game rule description updated to reflect this
Tooltips now actually tell you which tenets or doctrines you need to set Daedric Princes to Pantheon
Reduced non-Dunmer heritage willingness to become vassal to a Great House
Reduced the vassalization acceptance modifier from Religious and Cultural rights (60 -> 50, 120 -> 100 for both)
Reduced acceptance by non-Dunmer to be vassalized by Great Houses
Blocked characters with artificially long lifespans from having families generated (Mannimarco etc)
Blocked the adoption decision for republics, theocracies, holy orders, academies and military orders
Blocked building more than one orphanage per county, drastically reduced AI likelihood to build one (made it equal to the terrain specific ones, not equal to the main city building type)
Summerset Justiciars, Nedic Headhunters and Breton Hedge Knights are now of the Spellblade type. Counters and icons adapted
Witch Knights are now of the Light Cavalry Type
Welkynar Knights are now Mages type, give Siege Progress
Nibenese Battlemages now give Siege Progress
Oreyn's Reclamation of Woodhearth now uses the Depose CB which means, King Faume loses all its titles upon his defeat and Oreyn becomes King instead of Erasmo.
War of Lillandril Succession has been tweaked: the wars against the claimant brother now uses the Depose CB
Adjusted High Rock/Skyrim border to be more in line with Anthology
Valkygg is now a castle, Labyrinthian a temple making a Dragon Cult player capital there viable
Slightly darkened military order map color to not be the same as theocracy
Female Altmer now have Altmer clothing patterns for their placeholder steppe clothes

Fixes:

Most if not all missing faith localization should be fixed now
Fixed the religious hostility bug where newly created faiths were at 100 hostility with every other faith.
Fixed academy holding being ignored/considered empty for hold court events
Nerevar patron now properly function
Lich is now a Sin to the Sanctity of Life tenet
Updated Birth Sign traits and game concepts to not reference in-game abilities that do not exist in EK2
Orphans adopted from orphanages are no longer being castrated
AI should now be less eager to build a million Orphanages
Orphanages can now only be built once per county
Fixed Imperial Legacy tradition having a faulty trigger
Fixed many child characters having way too many traits
"Secure the Heartlands" decision now shows when holding the kingdom title, not when fully controlling it
Culture Emergence event blocked for dead cultures
Fixed "Far From Home" event generating dead culture characters
Royal Court adoption event blocked for Dremora
Fixed inconsistencies with the Two-Moons pantheon
Fixed Two-Moons having way too many sins and virtues
Missing description for Lorkhaj patron added
Cyrodiilic Hero event for Attrebus should now fire correctly
Blocked unnaturally long lived characters from having families generated by the Generate Families game rule (no more family for Mannimarco)
Educator's culture can now enable Magic Education
Prevented government types that don't need dynastic heirs from adopting
Several faiths that said they had a HoF but that wasn't formable, are now formable
Bandit, Goblin and Undead Faction demands now properly target the top liege
Abomination Cleansing is now usable only Known Vampires and Known Lycans in addition to Necromancers/Undead. It used to be available for any type of the above, Secret or Public
Fixed the complexions shader (vanilla bug)
Extract Tribute CB now pays the Attacker instead of the reverse
Fixed some provinces having the wrong holding
Fixed some provinces having the wrong terrain_type
Various missing trigger localization fixed, like "must_lead_army" for certain spells
Various minor bugfixes, spelling mistakes

Version: 0.10.3 "Manifest Metaphors" (30/Dec/2022)

Fixes:

Goblin, Bandit and Undead Crisis Factions now only target top level liege.
Crisis Factions can no longer spawn in the player capital (preventing game overs).
Bandit Factions actually push their demands.
Fixed Crisis Faction spam.

Version: 0.10.2 "Manifest Metaphors" (20/Dec/2022)

New:

New possible targets for the hunting decision, among them Grahls, Haj Mota, Dunerippers and many more
Added missing nicknames to lore characters

Changes:

Keizaal Decision is now visible to non-Nords, so that players who are dragon cult know that they need to have the correct heritage to do the decision
Daedric Champion Event no longer forces conversion
A new Daedric Champion conversion decision lets you convert to your Daedric Lord's faith if you are a Daedric champion
De Jure Drift Timer increased to 300 years (down from 100)

Fixes:

Fixed various issues with Adoptions
Fixed invalid terrain buildings in Black Marsh
Fixed various issues with minor crises
Various localization fixes
Minor history fixes
Various minor fixes

Version: 0.10.1 "Manifest Metaphors" (17/Dec/2022)

New:

Added facial hair based off the Shogunate Mod

Changes:

Added localization for Birth Signs in birth events
A stewardship culture event was blocked for Dead Cultures

Fixes:

Fixes CTD when launching with different languages.
Fixed Maormer not getting lifespan traits.
Removed Errorhoof from Ruler Designer.
Fixed a child ruler messing up the Ruler Designer window.
Fixed Solitude not being farmland terrain type.
Fixed Mara not being a patron for the Elven/Auri-El pantheon.
Fixed Riddle-Thar Faith not using the Khajiit patron icons
Fixed Redguards not having the right holding models.
Recently landed rulers now have the right Obligation Set.
Fixed Desert Ribat tradition, removed reference to vanilla MaA we didn't port over.
Missing God doctrine localization adjusted.
Fix for Good and Bad Daedra pantheons requiring specific Tenets.
Various minor fixes.

Version: 0.10 "Manifest Metaphors" (16/Dec/2022)

New:

Reduced the startup error.log from ~2700 errors to ~0. (Yes, zero.)
Old Life and New Life Festival are upon us!

Many new Flavor Events relating to the Tamrielic wintry holidays
Spreading holiday cheer with events relating to holidays all across Tamriel up to Sun's Height (more holidays to come in future updates)

Added many new Flavor Events.
Added Adoption!

Worried about not having suitable heirs?* Worry no more! You can now build orphanages and adopt a little bundle of love! *restrictions may apply

Terrain of Anequina/Northern Elsweyr has seen a major rework
Khajiit have received custom 3D Army Models
Added Special Building: Moon Gate of Anequina
Added many new Coat of Arms, both for titles and dynasties, made by both the team and via community contributions.
Added a decision as an Ayleid cultured king of Bravil to move capital to Nenalata. Including Event Line.
Added a decision to allow custom rulers to become pirate government if they hold a pirate title or pirate trait for the first year.
Added a decision for a ruler with Pirate Government to stop being a pirate.
Added a decision to return d_necrom to the Alma Rula if not held by the Tribunal Temple title, but the current holder is of the faith.
Added Arcana attribute selection in Ruler Designer.
Added ~250 icons for various custom faith options.
Added an icon for Battlemage trait.
Added Heater shield CoA frames from Patrum Scuta for Feudal Government.
Added various missing patron and patron trait icons.
Distributed new Tenets Art from 1.8.0 update across EK2 Tenets.
Added Generic Staff model, used both for court displays and in duels!
The Staff of the Everscamp found its way into EK2, careful with that one!
Added the Aspect of Shadows for Monolatric Faiths.
Added many missing artifact descriptions.
Added two new types of pets: Parrots and Scorpions.

Changes:

Some spells have received tiered versions, with magicka cost and magic effect scaling accordingly.

The spells are: Summon Daedric Army, Raise Dead, Transmute and Calm. More will probably follow.

Lifespan Health Penalty system reworked, characters won't live as long as before.
Added Maormer heritage and Amaraldani culture.

Maormeri is now its own heritage
Maormer has been removed from Tamriel, serves as the placeholder Maormer culture of Pyandonea
Maormer culture is considered dead
Maormer culture now has Isolationist, Fervent Temple Builders, Philosopher Culture, and Zealous people
Added the Amaraldani culture in Tamriel
Former Maormer characters and counties are now Amaraldani
Amaraldani culture is Bellicose and has Isolationist, Quarrelsome, Seafaring, Practiced Pirates, and Zealous people

Reworked Exalted Heroism

The tenet now makes you a Saint when you reach max level of Fame and Devotion Becoming a Saint also allows you to change a virtue or sin of your faith

Government tweaks and UI

Feudal government shows who can join the Council in the Council window
Autocracy shows the vassal power share in the Realm Window
Hierocracy shows the faith land share in the Realm Window
Vassal power is only taken into account when determining the total vassal power share if they: aren't friends with the liege, aren't allied with the liege, don't have a truce with the liege, aren't the subject of a strong hook from the liege, aren't imprisoned

Nerfed the mages, buffed dragons .

Mages stack size is now 50, was 100
Witch Knights (Reach-specific mages) stack size is now 25, was 50
Dragons now have a Siege value of 1, and are always effective (don't downscale like other siege weapons)

Non-AI characters that are part of Pacifist faiths can now raid, at a piety cost.
Vassal contracts can now be modified after 20 years.
Removed Divine Command from title revocation, added a tooltip for low Crown Authority tyranny.
Duel for Title is now locked behind Honor-Bound or Quarrelsome.
Arcane Blood now has a fairly high chance of giving new kids good arcana traits.
The Draft the Tsaesci Act and End Akaviri Rule have clearer requirements.
Crown of Verity tweaks

being found worthy by the crown of verity now gives a strong claim on Eastern Skyrim or Skyrim (depending which one exists)
being found worthy now add 80 score points to elections

Added some missing Monolatric aspects.
One can become a Saint when converting/creating a faith when at already the max level of fame and devotion.
Removed clothing toggle in ruler designer. (this has caused issues which weren't fixable)
Greater Orsinium now requires >= 4 Kingdom Titles.
Worm Cult now has a Temporal Clergy.
Added a tooltip to explain why some faiths don't have patrons.
Added a tooltip to the convert province (culture) task explaining that dead heritages are screwed.
Made it more clearer when children can and cannot receive magical education.
Amulet of Kings Artifact now has a proper icon.
Added a decision to test whether your character can wear the Amulet of Kings or not (spoiler: eh).
Added a missing local culture creation decision for East Ghost.
Tweaked Academy Building modifiers.
Marriage outside heritage happens a lot less for isolationists now.
Imperial/Nedic/Nordic/Redguard pantheon rulers how treat each other's pantheon has effectively their own.
No more 'of Cyrodiil' at game start. Members of a House of said dynasty may however reclaim the name via decision
Revised most High Rock Title CoAs

Fixes: (Note, not all fixes from the grand error cleaning are listed here)

Fixed a bug that could lead to error.log spam (and performance drops) when using the vassal contract screen
Fixed the Tsaesence name-biting ritual not giving the correct traits
The 'Whale' Patron of the Atmoran faith now mentions the higher chance of getting captives.
Fixed some traits not correctly giving Arcana.
Fixed Blood price event not extracting the blood price correctly.
Fixed Pillage Dynasty Legacy not being available.
Fixed Head of Faith titles not being creatable.
Fixed Daedric Monolatrism doctrine description.
Hereditary Hierarchy now correctly changes your government when it's picked or lost.
Fixed missing title of the final event of the Rule by Might succession event chain.
Fixed Arctur Dralgoner not being a pirate in 450.
Fixed mercenary companies larping as feudal rulers.
No more patron alert when unnecessary.
Fixed the Faiths with a Monolatric deity not getting the proper Monolatric pantheon type.
Fixed the Living Law considering adultery cringe when they have Polyamory.
Sorcerer-Kings MaA modifier updates correctly now added when you add or remove a tradition.
Fixed the Veeskhleel faith not having the Argonian heritage tied to it.
Non-tribal counties with a open holding modifier should still get their modifier refreshed (so it can be removed).
Holy sites are now properly counted when creating a new HoF.
Changing your culture now properly changes your government form.
Vassals using their liege to opt out of Tribalism now get the proper government form.
"Core" tradition category no longer displays.
Fixed imperial legacy being available to non-imperial cultures.
Mastery over Undeath now tells you you can become a Lich.
Accepted (Necromancy) now tells you you can become a Necromancer + says that Necromancers are accepted.
Fixed a broken localization in the Aspect of Attraction.
Removed references to Bacchus and Epicurus in RC events.
Removed real life references in lover events.
Removed Desert Plantations from Jungle and Valenwood terrain.
Fixed Vaermina faith missing virtue.
Forming Tamriel won't make all your vassals independent anymore.
Various magic related exploits fixed.
Various Localization Fixes
Various Locator Fixes
Various Adjacency Fixes
Many more fixes

Version: 0.9.3 Update (20/Nov/2022)

New:

Better Arcana tooltip.

Now shows the magic lifestyle perks of a character

Ruler Designer Tweaks

Added a toggle for natural lighting.
Added a toggle for clothes.
Khajiit patterns are now active.
Added Khajiit ear tufts and fur pattern customization.
Unlocked Bust size, aging, forehead wrinkles, other wrinkles
Added scrollbox for beard and hair genes.
Fixed Characters appearing bald.

Under Skar now has a Special Building attached to it.
Added Special Building of Mala Tor, easternmost outpost of the Imperatum Saliache.
Added a decision to become a Necromancer.
Added a decision to become a Lich.
Added a decision to convert to Dragon Cult.
Added a decision for Old Orsinium to become capital of newly formed one.
A certain Khajiit has more cryptic messages to tell.
Added some new events.
Added an important Lore artifact. Have fun finding a certain holy bow.
Added an important Lore artifact. Have fun finding a certain holy shield.
Added an important Lore artifact. Have fun finding a certain grumpy guy's axe.
The Mane's Palanquin has received a unique 3D asset.
New Birth Sign trait icons, which make them more distinguishable
Armored Legionaries have received an Illustration
Added various missing patron and patron trait icons.
Added a Icon for Praxis Secondary Stat
Added a new important character description for Camilla Pardus
If the game played in other languages, the mod now displays EK2 content in English, instead of weird code stuff.

Fixes & Tweaks:

Fixed Greater Orsinium Decision
Fixed Old Orsinium ruins requirements
Newborn Children now get base Arcana
Spellbook Interaction was locked to diplomatic range
Inflict Wounds spell was further nerfed
Fixed Rot not being cured by Cure Disease Spell
Raise Dead Spell now unlocked by Necromancer Trait
Argonian Month names now only appear for Jel Speakers (vs all Argonians)
Fixed multiple MaA related bugs (which caused error.log clogging)
Orc Marauder MaA is now more expensive
Mages are now countered by Archers
Orcish Forge-wife Court Position Knight Effectiveness Modifier nerfed
Fixed Lifespan Trait Descriptions + Game Concept
Fixed Tier 3 Dunmer Unit having the wrong texture
Fixed some forest buildings being available in the icy tundra terrain
Fixed Yokuda being required for the Empire of Tamriel Decision
Fixed Sanguine Mysteries not having any/Sanguine Cult having too many Holy Sites
Magic Lifestyle Perk Alert now actually shows up
Rada al-Saran and Harkon are now historical rivals
Tweaked Mannimarco's Lifespan Trait
Fixed Woodborne Dynasty being absent from Wayrest History
Fixed Leyawiin Chapel being in the wrong barony
Fixed Four-Quarry province being isolated (now connects with a river-crossing)
'Nomadic' Cultures are now referred to as 'Migratory'
Removed access to Dragonblood legacy for Dragonborns. Y'all couldn't behave. (to be added again later)
Tweaked non-native culture localization during Diverging to avoid confusion
Various Localization Fixes
Various Locator Fixes

Version: 0.9.2 Hotfix (14/Nov/2022)

New:

Ruler Designer reworked.

You now start in a prison, like in every good TES game.
Preventing invalid culture selection in ruler designer. Ethnicity and Culture must now match during creation. You can culture convert after game start using the 'convert to local culture' decision. Fixed the decision sometimes not being available.

Valenwood Culture Rework.

Bosmer have received two new cultures, the Silvenari and Etarani. The former representing sagacious Bosmer around Silvenar, and the latter being the self proclaimed 'children of the king'. Both tend to be mostly Autocratic.
Added a Green Lady to the Silvenar

Garlas Agea now has a Special Building attached to it.
Cloudruler Temple now has a Special Building attached to it.
Khajiit Furstock Trait icons have been altered
Veeskhleel faith has received an icon
Added a new important character description for two historic Alma Rulas (Dunmer Popes)
Ilniviri/Tsaesci now have custom clothing, based on assets from the Shogunate Mod (much love <3)
Pirate Title Variety, yarrr

Fixes:

Tsaescence

Rewrote the Consume interaction to require a doctrine parameter rather than the entire "Tsaescence" Tenet AND knowledge of the Tsaesci language. The interaction will show if your faith has the Tsaescence Tenet but will be unavailable unless your character knows Tsaesci
Added a tooltip explaining said functioning of the "Consume" Interaction, and how it makes your Tsaescence level increase

Vassal contracts can now be modified after 20 years
Removed Divine Command from title revocation, added a tooltip for low CA tyranny
Hereditary Hierarchy changes your government when it's picked or lost
Added a title to the final event of the Rule by Might succession event chain
Duel for Title is now locked behind Honor-Bound or Quarrelsome
Arcane Blood now has a fairly high chance of giving new kids good arcana traits
The Draft the Tsaesci Act and End Akaviri Rule have clearer requirements
Aldruhn is now a tribe
Adjusted Daedric armor buffs
Adjusted Cyrodiilic Namelists
Adjusted eye sizes for some human ethnicities
Adjusted Crown of Verity shape to better fit heads
Adjusted color variety of imperial cloaks
Adjusted Icarian Flight Event
Adjusted frequency of the Naked Nord event
Adjusted Chukka-Sei Decision
Now everyone can refuse wedding feasts, not just shy characters
Vaermina's wrath can now be appeased
Fixed godlike health modifier being eternal
Fixed goblins being racist towards other goblins in an event
Fixed shadowkey not being destroyed properly
Fixed Cure disease not curing ticklebritch
Fixed alert when a new magic perk is available
Fixed Goblin Crisis Faction icon not appearing
Fixed Bandit Crisis Faction not having an icon
Fixed Kothringi not being seafaring
Fixed MaA Art of Daedric troops not appearing
Fixed Falmer and Dwemer not having hair
Fixed Altmer commoner clothes not appearing in barbershop
Fixed no explanation being given on why followers of Hist religions can't feudalize
Fixed EK2 only displaying localization keys for German translation (will now display English mod content, German game content)
Fixed Customization Points bar in Ruler Designer not functioning properly
Building Cost of the White Gold Tower special building was upped
Aedric Sect now worships Shezzar
Changed the capital of Murkwater to Loriasel
Added some Dwemer idolatry icons
Added Icon for the Crown of Verity Artifact
Chapel of Zenithar in Leyawiin (and Dibellaseum in Gideon) now have CoA
Ordinator Order of War and Pale Watch now have CoA
Fixed various adjacencies (bridges, straits)
Various localization fixes
Various other tweaks

Version: 0.9.1 Hotfix (13/Nov/2022)

New:

Creating the Empire of Tamriel now starts 3E
Khajiit Patron Trait Icons have been added
Secret/Exposed Daedric Worshiper Trait Icons have been added
Jahlasri the lone Maormer has left the court of Velehk Sain to found her own group of pirates south of Summerset (Maormer no longer 'dead', playable pirate ruler at game-start)
Reworked Exalted Heroism, the tenet now makes you a Saint when you reach max level of Fame and Devotion. Becoming a Saint also allows you to change a virtue or sin of your faith

Renamed the "Mane" dynasty to "of Twin-Moons" according to a developer consensus
Removed "at-" dynastic prefix from "Phyllocid" dynasty. It was redundant with the "-id" ending in that name

k_vulkhel now known as "Iluvamir" to Elves
MaA AI weights, The AI has now received weights so that it recruits troops based on cultural leanings and availability of special troops.
New Court Mage position desc
Added a new historical description for King Falk Skjoralmor (father of bookmark character Hakkvild) and did relevant personality edits to involved characters.
Edited multiple characters' traits to match their written personalities
Random Reachfolk dynasties received CoA and motto (Black-Moon)
Non-AI characters that are part of Pacifist faiths can now raid, at a piety cost
Head of Faith titles should now be creatable

Fixes:

Dozens of Localization Fixes
The Imperial City Special Buildings have been nerfed
The Crown of Verity worthiness modifier is now permanent (instead of just 1 year)
Characters can now become saints
Fixed the Longboat Innovation (the 'custom' innovation that popped up)
Fixed multiple bridges/straits to work as intended
Fixed multiple locators (so troops don't warp around the world)
Fixed Lifespan assignment for generated Dwemer and Falmer
Fixed March East/West Decisions for Colovia/Nibenay and West/East Skyrim to work as intended
Fixed creation requirements for the Empire of Tamriel
Fixed display of dates in memory GUI
Fixed some wrongly displayed faiths, cultures on Bookmark screens
Fixed some bookmark texts being cut off
Fixed Helstrom being duplicate Holy Site for Hist
Fixed the Loremaster court position trigger not having itself defined in it
Fixed FP1 Pillage Legacy not being available (requires FP1 to use)
Daedric Monolatrism doctrine description not broken anymore
Removed unimplemented ritual of the gifts description from Tenet
Fixed Breton Hedge Knights not having a counter
Placeholder Wasteland north of Solstheim removed
Infinite Khajiit Tail Fix

Version: 0.9.0 "Dawn" Update (11/Nov/2022)

A highly detailed map of Tamriel at roughly 2/3 the size of the vanilla map.
All 10 playable races from the main games + more, like Tsaesci, Lilmothiit, Goblins, Kothringi...
Custom Feature: Magic
Custom Feature: Vampires
Culture: Nativity Zones
Religion: Pantheons and Patrons, Dynamic Holy Sites
War: Might makes Right
New Governments: Autocracy, Pirates, Altmer Ceremoniarchy, Mane Hierocracy, Academy (Unplayable), Military Order (Unplayable)
Succession Type: Nordic Moot Elective
Traits: Birthsigns
Traits/Appearance: Khajiit Furstock and Moonphases
and much more