Anbennar - Dur Vazhatun

[@alvedonaren]

I'm the one who made this MT (though I got a lot of help with coding the observation/astral terror system), and also wrote around half of all the flavor text (which took multiple months all on its own even with multiple other writers helping out). I haven't had time to watch the video yet, but thank you for playing this tag!

[@Ushankhuru]

Im just doing a campaign now and the mission tree and story is probably the most fun I've ever had in eu4. You did such a good job

[@decayingbrain7494]

Is the astral terror caused by the dawrves "seeing" the people playing the campaign? Y'know looking up, and then realizing that whatever is up, is looking back at you? Since anbennar is based on dnd, and there's that one sort-of popular message board that described one dnd character rolling a nat 20 on perception while not being able to see anything more than they already did, and then transcending for a second and become cognecent of the fact that their figurines being played by a party of "giants", I just imagine that this mission tree was inspired by this story, but just space themed.

[@alvedonaren]

@@decayingbrain7494 That's probably the weirdest interpretation I've seen yet. Probably not, but I don't want to debunk your headcanon.

[@pukebeard6406]

Thank you for your service. 🙏 It was one of my favorite experiences!

[@williamverhagen5210]

I am currious is the astral terror and the story line of artificial objects in orbit inspired by the dark forest theory/ the 3 body problem books? It has a similar something is out there and hostile feel to it and I am currious if its just me connecting the 2 or if there was any intent.

[@1114Catman]

Great to see you playing Dur-Vazhatun - I wrote a lot of these events! Hope you liked it :)

[@pukebeard6406]

Hey, I spent more than an hour and a half reading through them! I liked them a little bit. ^_^ Thank you so much for your work. It was amazing!

[@Rellana1]

@@pukebeard6406 Just a question,but why take Shattered Crown and Railskulker as vassals,as wouldn't you be unable to integrate them due to them being monstrous?

[@pukebeard6406]

@@Rellana1 So I purged orcs until I could release them as ancestor worship. Didn't work the same with goblins. The orcs were not monstruous at release. The goblins I can't remember, but my main aim was to be able to stay one province, in order to get reform progress from expeditions as much as possible.

[@Bootrick33]

I am shocked at how much I enjoyed this. 🎉 The way you abstract gameplay made it sound more like a dwarf fortress recap than listening to eu4 player talk about in game mechanics VERY enjoyable

[@pukebeard6406]

Thank you so much for your kind words. I‘m glad!

[@belltowersubductions5104]

Oh hey, I wrote the Blueshield Company intro! The only guideline I was given was "Hobbit Reference" which hopefully explains that heh. That aside, I always love your videos, so I'm going to save this for lunch and a hot cup of tea tomorrow. I hope you did better in the eastern campaigns of the mission tree than I did, that was a bit of a pain what with the Centaurs doing Centaur things.

[@pukebeard6406]

Haha! I felt that. People from the shire getting a band together to look for treasure. Very cute. I love the new descriptions and starting kits for the different adventurers. Kives an extra layer of choice.

[@anonnameless7799]

I'm not going to get a chance to watch this for a few hours but I just audibly gasped with excitement when seeing your video pop up in my subscriptions feed. Loving the content as always and know that you've inspired someone to make their own KZbin channel with the growth you've shown in your own content. Bless up :D

[@pukebeard6406]

Thank you for the kind words! Share your stuff! I want to see.

[@lorefox201]

it's so true, I always stop cold when your videos come out and try to watch them asap

[@anonnameless7799]

​@@pukebeard6406 I've only started recording recently, and am just now working on graphics and scripts and stuff. But I'll link the first one I put up here for sure! I appreciate the positivity :D

[@pukebeard6406]

@@anonnameless7799 Good luck!

[@joelnavajasleon7496]

I love your videos, it's like watching a movie that tells you the lore and history of a fantasy country, i hope more people see your channel, You deserve the best

[@pukebeard6406]

Thank you very much! That’s very kind. ☺️ I’m afraid that the longer the videos are the more niche the content gets. 😅

[@SilverWindDub]

Always a pleasure seeing a new Pukebeard video. 🙌🏻

[@pukebeard6406]

Nice to have you here!

[@jamesnewman7509]

...Huh. I finished my run of this just a few days ago. I did my start the hard way - keeping the Shattered Crown lands for myself, then expanding west, and taking over the Mithril hold. Using expedition money, repair that hold, then make it my capital, and dev renaissance there, using the obscene amounts of money that got to repair the shattered crown holds afterwards. I colonised to and conquered the slaver hold and the railway hold, vassalised the ruby dwarves, and colonised the cavalry hold all before I even got to Dur Vazhatun, and I *still* was there in time to be able to block the quartz dwarfs inside their mountain. Needless to say, after that I had a very easy time of it, even when I needed to conquer land from the #1 GP Gawed to my west or the GP unified LakeFed to my east. Still, had a bit of a damp squib ending, as the final event chain spawned rebels partly beyond my borders (I only conquered Gawedi lands as far as the mission tree demanded, as fighting massive countries just takes sooooo long), and I defeated my rebels before Gawed did, so I presume Gawed got my final event when they killed the final 'rebels', as I got nothing. Ended up having to dig through the mission tree to trigger the event manually. Plus, the 'rebels' were rather underwhelming. I'd had to face down the literal million-man army of the Lakefed just a few years prior, those rebels were a joke. Still, the *theme* of it was very strong, even if the mechanics tripped over themselves a bit at the end. Personally - and I can understand why they didn't, but it would have been novel - the end of the mission tree would have been one of the few times I feel an 'unwinnable' disaster (like the centaurs get if they don't expand fast enough) would have been appropriate. Like, the meteor at the end, rather than one set of rebels, instead, you get an expanding condition from the impact point which burns down the dev of your provinces and turns them into rebels until the province is entirely decolonised as the people all go mad. There's no way to stop it as it slowly spreads throughout all your lands, and there's just a series of events as it gets closer and closer to your hold as you realise just how utterly screwed you are, and that there is no hope, no way out. You can fight the rebels, but you can't fight the cause, you don't even understand it, beyond finally accepting, as you hear the sounds of madness begin to echo through your hold, that there are some places we shouldn't look, that there are some warnings that should be heeded, and there are some prices for hubris even dwarves cannot afford to pay.

[@jamesnewman7509]

Actually, what the heck are those golden national decisions you have? Like 'Cartels: Grant New World Charter'. I don't remember seeing those before. Are they from a DLC I don't have? Do they have a signficant impact?

[@pukebeard6406]

They are from the domination DLC I believe. They are granted by certain estate privileges, and give explorers and conquistadors, but certain other privileges grant some other stuff. It’s a baseline EU4 feature from Domination.

[@donfrancis9757]

I just want to say I absoulutly fell in love with your channel. Both for inspiration on wich nations I am going to play my self and using your videos in kind of a podcast sense when studying. Thanks man keep up your great work

[@pukebeard6406]

Happy studying! And thanks for listening!

[@ayyyyylmao]

1 hour 45 minute pukebeard video? It truly is Christmas!

[@pukebeard6406]

Merry Christmas!

[@sabaurushadze1639]

LESGOOO thanks for content, waiting for more!

[@pukebeard6406]

Oh boy! I need a break after this one. 😅

[@sabaurushadze1639]

@@pukebeard6406I bet you do, take your time high king! just finished watching tho, it was great.

[@siamigo286]

Let’s goooooo more anbennar

[@pukebeard6406]

Whoop!!

[@etiennegarant7545]

The use of the Starfield theme made me chuckle, fun inclusion. Amazing story as well, I had recently played with those dwarves, its sure a lore-rich playthrough.

[@pukebeard6406]

Starfield theme??

[@etiennegarant7545]

@@pukebeard6406 if not then there is a musical theme eerily reminiscent of it playing in the background of some of the segments. Or maybe that's just the Astral Terror seeping in in my head

[@Matthew-cc4xt]

cool format

[@Tom-oj7si]

Can't believe they finally updated steam, should've done that regularly tbh Good video!

[@pukebeard6406]

Thanks! I was clearly a humongous patch. I’m glad they took their time. My first runs were seamless!

[@Tom-oj7si]

@@pukebeard6406 hmm They could have updated the minor things and like the polished bitbucket stuff. Half a year is a mod-killer level of time

[@k_aesar]

new pukebeard video!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@pukebeard6406]

Heyheyhey!

[@ryleyreishus1089]

Love the video. Great flavor. The dwarves from the last patch are really well done

[@pukebeard6406]

I love them! I kinda hope for a revival of some of the older MTs.

[@kucimaka8092]

now we just need to know if the enemies hidden in the stars have something to do with lizardfolks and their monument...

[@decayingbrain7494]

I'm pretty sure they're talking about you, playing the campaign. The dwarves use a strong telescope to look up, see something observing them, get afraid of whatever is observing them, and then want to dig so far deep down, that they completely disappear from view (aka become unplayable). Idk, anything about lizardfolk lore, but the localization of the events just made me think of that one message board that desribes a dnd game where one character roled a nat 20, and then percieved "giants" around a table controling them.

[@pukebeard6406]

I don’t float in a castle though. :( Not yet at least.

[@reroman1892]

I think the lizardfolk are colonists of the interstellar empire the Precursors and Al-Dwarov fought. A dev in the disc told me so, i think

[@pukebeard6406]

That sounds whack! I love it.

[@aguyfromflorida4842]

awesome

[@pukebeard6406]

Thanks!

[@felixsocke2434]

Love it, thank you

[@pukebeard6406]

Merry Christmas, yo!

[@Strix2031]

Just finished my playtrough,time to continue the video

[@pukebeard6406]

I am conflicted about the inherent spoilery nature of this videos, though, but there’s no escaping it I guess.

[@Strix2031]

@@pukebeard6406 If im interested after the start of a video i just go play it myself and then continue. All i got spoiled was that there was a telecospe and you could see cool descriptions of the planets.

[@pukebeard6406]

Good! Good choice!

[@ZimbolicalMayhem]

Nice dwarven adventure playthrough

[@pukebeard6406]

Yes! One of the more interesting tags i’ve ever played.

[@andreasanastasiadis2950]

I really like your videos, thay are gameplay but the storytelling of yours is really impressive. I would like to make a suggestion of playing something in the lakefederations, because thay don't get alot of love dispite being quite unique and have a massiv mission tree with alot of flavor

[@pukebeard6406]

I do dream of covering the federation some day. They are definetly on my short list.

[@vladstoyanov4497]

does that all mean they all live in basically post apocalyptic times? well with all the beam of light destroying cities and precursor empire portal tower that described as sky gate?

[@pukebeard6406]

It is after the apocalypse of the Day of Ashen skies. The dwarves also had an extra mountain apocalypse as well, so after double apocalypse. :))

[@dedrinzypool1209]

Something that baffles me about your run, how the heck did you get the purge for Shattered Crown so quickly. 2-3 years after conquest and still no event

[@ratwithglasses1495]

Damn bro beat me to it, im on the last mission of the tree right now lmao

[@pukebeard6406]

Dig! Dig! Dig!

[@pukebeard6406]

Dig! Dig! Dig!

[@platoonmexx9278]

im new to anbennar - naturally likeing dwarfs as of yet i ve only played them... and recognized that there are 3 dwarfen religions, pantheon, ancestor and teh 3rd was i think runefather? - i cant find a single tag with this religion also no province ^^, do you know how to get that religion? is it mission / nation / event / disisaster bound? :D a video about it would also be cool :D

[@SlorDj]

search Obsidian Legion

[@platoonmexx9278]

@@SlorDj nothing found, no province no tag :/

[@alvedonaren]

@@platoonmexx9278 They spawn through a disaster

[@pukebeard6406]

The Obsidian legion spawn through a disaster that is triggered while digging by an event. The ‘Strange Calcyte layer’. The Legion has a unique government, religion and monument, but no mission tree yet.

[@Tziplays]

Very nice!

[@pukebeard6406]

I like! 👍

[@icebrakertrotsky97]

I cannot really pin your accent, are you romanian by any chance?

[@Sviatoslav_The_Brave]

On his channel's 'about' section it says Germany

[@pukebeard6406]

So basically European. 😝

[@zote4374]

Were these guys recently added or one of the older holds?

[@everest8542]

Added to Steam in Scions of Sarhal Update Have been on the Bitbcuket for months

[@Strix2031]

Banger video

[@pukebeard6406]

Thank youu! ❤️

[@benjaminthorsen2848]

What map mod are you using?

[@magnusthered4946]

Mullen or Saidan next maybe ???

[@pukebeard6406]

Not next, but soon, I hope!

[@emperoruniversalis9773]

We need your videos puke, come on :)

[@pukebeard6406]

Give me a couple of days, my brother in Surael!

[@werdna8815]

Big update just dropped on the BB. The Valley is Real.

[@pukebeard6406]

I saw! Another myth destroyed!

[@arkiv7851]

Would you do an Adenica video at some point 🥺- the world needs to see true justice and honour.

[@pukebeard6406]

Corin wants to know your location.

[@arkiv7851]

@@pukebeard6406 Everywhere there is injustice 😎🏇💙

[@ZimbolicalMayhem]

Satellites being ancient elven forebears, they had a floating island which was used as a kinetic weapon

[@pukebeard6406]

I hope it was just a suspended thermal bath and the dwarves panicked for nothing.

[@Snowy123]

No new video?

[@pukebeard6406]

Your wish is my suggestion!

[@JorjiCostava-]

Did the astronomers get their bogos binted?

[@pukebeard6406]

I don’t know what that means, but merry Christmas!

[@arkiv7851]

👽

[@lorefox201]

ia ia chtuluh ftaghn

[@lorefox201]

poor dwarves. still thinking they'll be able to make sense of it all. conceited little creatures, endearing in their efforts, but misguided. Their ancestors did the right thing, they dug and forgot and focused on small lives made of petty greed and fleeting distraction. That would be a much better life for them all. Dig an hole dwarf, never look up. Because the slightest hint of the malevolence waiting for you in the depths of the night sky is enough to drive you mad, and the faintest recognition of your effort from Those Who Wait slaughtered your thousands. And the day approaches when your prying eyes will truly be noticed. You are not ready, you will never be. Dig, dwarf, dig and forget.

[@pukebeard6406]

Cthulhu Ftaghn!

[@azgan123]

[@pukebeard6406]