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!

[@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.

[@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

[@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

[@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.

[@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??

[@ayyyyylmao]

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

[@pukebeard6406]

Merry Christmas!

[@sabaurushadze1639]

LESGOOO thanks for content, waiting for more!

[@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

[@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

[@siamigo286]

Let’s goooooo more anbennar

[@pukebeard6406]

Whoop!!

[@k_aesar]

new pukebeard video!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@kucimaka8092]

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

[@Matthew-cc4xt]

cool format

[@ryleyreishus1089]

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

[@aguyfromflorida4842]

awesome

[@ZimbolicalMayhem]

Nice dwarven adventure playthrough

[@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.

[@felixsocke2434]

Love it, thank you

[@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?

[@Strix2031]

Just finished my playtrough,time to continue the video

[@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.

[@ratwithglasses1495]

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

[@pukebeard6406]

Dig! Dig! Dig!

[@Strix2031]

Banger video

[@pukebeard6406]

Thank youu! ❤️

[@Tziplays]

Very nice!

[@pukebeard6406]

I like! 👍

[@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

[@emperoruniversalis9773]

We need your videos puke, come on :)

[@pukebeard6406]

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

[@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

[@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. 😝

[@ZimbolicalMayhem]

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

[@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.

[@zote4374]

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

[@magnusthered4946]

Mullen or Saidan next maybe ???

[@benjaminthorsen2848]

What map mod are you using?

[@Snowy123]

No new video?

[@pukebeard6406]

Your wish is my suggestion!

[@JorjiCostava-]

Did the astronomers get their bogos binted?

[@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]