Phaze's Beasts Mod 2.0.0

My fourth mod for CK3, wow! This project has been a long time in the making. I wanted to create a dynamic where you would riase powerful creatures and use them to your own ends, but said creatures are powerful and wild thus they had the potential to act out on their own. This mod aims to add a more mythical element to your CK3 playthroughs by adding a new realm known as "The Rift" which spews fourth supernatural creatures and concepts. The stars of the show are my monsters called the Ogani, which are apex predators of mysterious origins.

**This mod likely would have remained on my draft board for quite some time (Maybe forever) if it were not for the amazing work at simulating powerful creatures displayed in this AGOT submod:https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3287624076 Since the main AGOT added a complex 3D dragon system, that mod has ended. It was a big inspiration and guide for making the Ogani feel "real" and hence why I even finished my drafts.

 

Support

My financial situation greatly determins my ability to work on mods. If you have enjoyed my works and have some coins spare please support me on my KO-FI account to help me out: https://ko-fi.com/phazestar
 

Content Warning

Some of the themes in this mod are violent and non-concenting in nature, as you are acting with primordial monsters. Nothing extreme is featured or shown in this mod, but some events might imply / hint at outcomes. Nothing graphic is shown, but if the theme doesn't sound for you please refrain from installing this mod.

 

How do I Play?

Currently in order to begin this mod you will need to create a custom character and assign them the "Rift Touched Start" trait (Do not select the regular rift touched trait). Once in game you can immediatly take a decision to gain the important traits as well as a freshly hatched Ogani, the only one in the world! Your Ogani is a special artifact that you cannot lose or remove without death. It will return to you if you somehow lose it. Your character will have a modifier that tells you the current enhancements your Ogani grants you. It can aged up, and at milestones it's buffs will change! (You can also name it in the artifact menu).
 

 

You will also gain the Ogani Bond Trait. This represents how well you get along as well as how much you can get out of your Ogani in battle. You might notice some negative opinions for raising infernal monsters at your court. This trait has exp that decreases yearly. I recommend trying to keep the exp high, as if your bond is weak your Ogani might turn on you! You will get chances to improve your bond during raids, decisions or by feeding prisoners to your Ogani.

 

Ogani Inheritance

So you have one Ogani, but what if he dies? What if you die? It wouldn't be CK3 without selective breeding programs right? Human Females are genetically viable for Ogani offspring unfortunatly for many. As an Ogani Bond you will have access to numerous decisions that provide the chance to let you cuddly friend spread his seed. The most simple is to force a peasant from one of your holdings to "take one for the team". This decision is available for rulers who are not fertile females. If you are a fertile female, you will instead offer yourself. Be weary, Ogani breeding sessions can cripple the human and might end in death. There are other ways to breed Ogani as well. Let's just say prison is a bad place to be. Also note, hatchling Ogani will not have access to the same interactions as older Ogani do.

 

Once you have bred a human successfully the next trial awaits. Birth. Thought normal birth was hard? Try pushing out monsterous eggs that weigh you down and max out in just 3 months. A woman can deliever a clutch of Ogani eggs, but it might also worsen her health or just outright kill her (Or if you are the happy mama, your life). Survivors will gain access to the broodmother trait, which will track any future eggs that woman might have (She likely does not want any more for you compassionate players). It should be stated that if you do bless her with more eggs, Broodmothers have a significantly higher chance at keeping good health through the entire process.

 

The eggs can eventually hatch into a new Ogani, but there are some conditions you will need to meet. The first is belonging to a valid bloodline which we will get to in a moment. The next is that you must not already be bonded to an Ogani (So you could have given an egg to your son for this instance). Third is you must be landed so that you can use decisions. If all are true, hatching an egg decision will be unlocked. From there you can pick a method to hatch your egg. Rift Touched has its own option, as do Broodmothers. Without those you can hope someone on earth knows.

 

Bloodlines
But what if a bond owner dies whilst the Ogani lives? This brings us back to the bloodlines. A lot of features relating to Ogani demand that you have a vaid bloodline. Humans are not native to the rift, but if your blood mixes with them - and if they accept - your genetic code can become recognised by the riftborn. Take a look at this handy chart to see how bloodlines work.

 

This is an example of the most thinly stretched bloodline possible. Basically, once a woman becomes a Broodmother her entire line of decendants for two generations are valid to the Ogani to form bonds with (Including the one with Broodmother). So our girl at the bottom of this tree has an Ogani bond without being a broodmother. Her mother (In the midlde) had nothing to do with Ogani, but her Grandmother was a broodmother and that is why she could forge her bond. This would still work if the broodmother came from her father's side (AKA her dad's mother was a broodmother). And yes, Sons are equally as valid as daughters for inheritance.

**Keep in mind that if you are careless (Or if you purposefully enable it) other Ogani bloodlines might appear should women you do not control survive as Broodmothers

 

If an Ogani's bond dies but a valid bloodline of the same dynasty exists, one of those members will gain ownership of the monster. This does not make them forge an Ogani bond though, to do that they must take the decision to claim it. You can use the claim decision so long as a dynasty member possess an unbonded Ogani. Its comes with risks, and much like hatching it has differing options based on your character.

 

Current Features

• Ogani Interactions!
  • Offer a valid bloodline relative the chance to bond with an unbonded Ogani you own
  • Demand a female relative of valid blood breeds your Ogani for the sake of the family
  • Feed prisoners to your Ogani
  • Let your Ogani breed prisoners
  • When your Ogani is 25+ you can intimate rulers of kingdoms and Empires to grant you claims
  • As a woman with Broodmother, you can let female friends watch breeding sessions
• Ogani Warfare
  • Ogani have a chance to ramage the enemy knights
  • Ogani might act out if the enemy commander is female
  • Ogani support your armies advantage (Stacks with fellow bonded knights in the same army)
  • Ogani love to raid, you can use a decision only whilst raiding
• Ogani Decisions
  • If you have spare Ogani Eggs you can build a Grand Den and store 10 eggs to gain a new MAA (Don't die whilst building the den otherwise you will have to try again)
  • Breed your ogani with your subjects or yourself
  • Claim an Ogani lacking a bond in your family
  • Hatch Ogani Eggs
• Peace time events
  • Your Ogani gets a sudden need to breed
  • Your Ogani adventures in the local area
• Ogani Bond event if your bond is weak

 

Planned Features

• More ways to interact with other rulers through your Ogani
• An activity to traverse the Rift from the lore!
  • Gives an immersive way to gain Rift Touched and Ogani Eggs
  • Adds other mythical races to the game
  • More artifacts
  • More lore
• Add Bookmarked characters that have lore and will trigger special event chains on gamestart with multiple endings
• Add more Ogani names and apperances

 

Tips

Aggressive actions suck as feeding Ogani to prisoners require personality traits such as Sadistic, Callous or Ambitious

 

Mod Compatability

This mod has no requirments from other mods to function.

 

Bugs

• This is the first release so who knows?!
• When breeding prisoners, if they already have a preganacy the timing might be ruined

 

Patches

Simplified Chinese provided by 顧小彩

Russian provided by messir

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