Reviving the Rarest Culture & Rarest Religion in CK3

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[@ianspurrell4436]

Great segue...

[@vilevagrant4632]

Try to create Kingdom of Bosnia, then an empire with Krstjani as its religion.

[@Thorite_Gem]

I actually watched the ad because of your cats

[@paulomtts]

Missed a great opportunity to say “this is AlzaBALLSHD”!

[@kingbagni6438]

cool vid bro

[@Mefgar]

I'm from Ireland, fun fact at 13:35 he highlights "Dundalk" as a tribal backwater. It's 2022, it still is a tribal backwater.

[@christophersalinas2722]

fun facht at 13:35 he hoighloightz dundalk as a troibal backwater

[@Keyboard_Thoughts]

@@christophersalinas2722 ?

[@christophersalinas2722]

@@Keyboard_Thoughts irish

[@poundlandbandit6124]

@@christophersalinas2722 Is that supposed to be accurate?

[@liamcassidy5992]

Tbh all of Louth

[@chaosmorris5865]

I really hope we get an actual celtic/ Druidic religon in the game. I think a Celtic Flavor Pack is in order.

[@monkeymoment6478]

It would be very hard to implement such a thing in the game in a realistic way, considering celts were Christian since before the Anglo-Saxons even arrived.

[@donpollo3154]

A celtic flavour pack could expand things like the high kingship of Ireland and the clans of Scotland but a celtic/druidic religion overhaul would be pointless given that celtic indigenous religions were basically extinct by both start dates in ck3

[@chaosmorris5865]

I love how people are bitching about Celtic Paganism meanwhile we already have Zunism and Hellenism in the game both of which are already extinct by the start date. Not to mentiom we're getting Basque paganism in the Iberian flavor pack and we both know even less about Basque paganism the Celtic Paganism and it was likely extinct for much longer as well.

[@rueisblue]

@@chaosmorris5865 are they actually implanting that? How? We know almost nothing about it, we barely even have deity names

[@rueisblue]

@@monkeymoment6478 we have hellenic lol, which died even before celtic

[@Sousabird]

I love that its just called "Paganism" Pagan literally just means non-Abrahamic religion.

[@Wytsch]

hope they expand on that in the future

[@Sousabird]

​@@Wytsch well the weird thing is the game seems to name other pagan groups. Just not the celts I guess.

[@filippolombardini8918]

I believe pagan comes from “pagus” which meant “people who lived in villages” really roughly, used by the Christian romans to call the people living in secluded villages who still worshipped the old gods

[@Sousabird]

​@@filippolombardini8918 definitely

[@Chr0n0s38]

That's because it's a generic religion in the game (also why the holy sites are so spread out). Just like in CK2 it's a placeholder religion used to represent the native religions in Brittannia, as well as Arabia (and a few other areas I suspect). Hopefully they'll add in the last missing religions in the newar future and will be able to retire generic paganism.

[@oliverdhakal2601]

Love that you gave Wales it's actual name. Not only do I enjoy the empire challenges, I really love how you give a narrative to the characters you play. cool vid bro

[@oliverdhakal2601]

@Penderyn Yeah that's that I was referring to :D

[@pnvpkenvpn9666]

Know what? Edgar Aetheling. In 1066 he starts as count of Warwick, and is the last male Cerdicing. He has a claim on England, and on Ruthenia. So an English-Russian Empire might be intriguing to see.

[@geoDB.]

Rohan

[@christophersalinas2722]

New start idea! Thank you! Almost forgot about the House of Wessex

[@pnvpkenvpn9666]

@@christophersalinas2722 Truthfully, my favorite 1066 start and my fourth favorite start. England is a lot easier to do, but Ruthenia can be accomplished. Have not managed Ruthenia in Ironman yet. In part because the claim on England can be inherited, while Edgar is the end of the line for the Ruthenia claim.

[@PraiseJ-Pope]

Thanks, will try this!

[@aclaymushroomwithaberet7084]

a warlock, English-Russian empire?

[@Koifish]

My man AlzaboHD literally eating alliteration for breakfast!

[@pashauzan]

Surely Vlandia is still greater than Celtica?

[@sarchlalaith8836]

Is our Knight of valandia still alive?

[@pashauzan]

@@sarchlalaith8836 If he is, he would be kneeling in despair seeing a Battania lookalike conquering Western Europe.

[@amish-ish]

It was quite aesthetic listenting to him wax poetic.

[@JB-xl2jc]

Alliterati-O's, part of a balanced breakfast!

[@Sousabird]

"Break truce like Robert the Bruce" might be my favorite sentence ever.

[@borgerderpknight8789]

Based Robert the Bruce

[@AlzaboHD]

And we're back with more content! Fate of Iberia is coming soon™ and more videos are on their way! What other videos would you like to see in the future?

[@ФутжакКисо]

playing as a count in egypt and trying to bring coptism back to egypt?

[@brianfrommars]

Maybe more Democracy 4? Fascist Japan?

[@thefbi3350]

Bringing Spain back to their original roots

[@bosniencommie1202]

Start as norse and merge colture with ibirian gots tu re germenise them

[@aclaymushroomwithaberet7084]

Yemen Socotra, make it a templar order that the other Caliphates fear! While only being one isle.

[@Discotekh_Dynasty]

Imagine the sunburn on that many Scots in Egypt

[@randombrit13]

We will clearly just have to placate the sun with glorious uisge beatha

[@alexbattaglia8297]

You don't have to imagine, just look to Australia

[@Amy_the_Lizard]

Probably quite a bit of cancer happening over there...

[@roterakaten636]

Like a walking army of lobsters

[@ColePenner]

Listening to your video script is like hearing 26 minutes of straight poetry

[@kaidenhall2718]

Not when he said peters head its peter heed

[@justinmalangoni]

what the fuck kind of poetry do you listen to?

[@supremepatriarch9929]

I love how there are about 20 Videos stating they show how to revive the rarest culture and religion. But every video is a different culture or religion

[@AlzaboHD]

Haha with 0 counties following the faith, they are all equally the rarest religion! Thanks for watching

[@Amy_the_Lizard]

You know what would be cool? Getting a bunch of CK3 KZbinrs to have a muliplayer campaign where they each have to try and revive a dead religion of their choice, and see who does best

[@Heimdallr51]

8:35 The name of Paris is from the celtic tribe ot the Parisii that live there. It's in fact one of the oldest celtic tribe in gallica know by greeks and roman authors.

[@Arjonko]

There are more mistakes like the Helvetii tribe holding land in northern france / belgium and the Belgae holding land in the Netherlands. This isnt meant as a educational video tho ^^

[@valentinmitterbauer4196]

Also he forgot to conquer Bavaria and rename it "Noricum" (but i guess the celtic name would be "Noricia"?)

[@JM-cu6ex]

@@valentinmitterbauer4196 he didn’t take Galicia and the rest of Spain!

[@valentinmitterbauer4196]

@@JM-cu6ex Yea, that too, celts were almost everywhere, but Noricum would've been especially intersting, with austria (to be pedantic: a region that now belongs majorily to austria) being the cradle of the celtic people.

[@unequippted7577]

It would be cool to see you play a horse lord or something like that

[@AlzaboHD]

I got you fam kzbin.info/www/bejne/gIW2cpydi7tjgLs (coincidently also named Ciniod!)

[@gaspardfrileux1816]

As a French, seeing that you included one of our musical reference with « papa où t’es ? » killed me🤣

[@DG_427]

I lost it at "Live, Laugh, Let the Bodies Hit the Floor".

[@donpollo3154]

This reminds me of the time I encountered an ash'ari pictish wanderer in a game as the byzantines

[@zacharytan3713]

this guy has some SERIOUS storytelling ability

[@AlzaboHD]

Thanks a ton for the support

[@andrewchapman2039]

Only three minutes in to the video, and already it's time for another thrilling episode of "Where in the world is Jarl Haesteinn?"

[@walx274]

I’m always incredibly impressed how he manages to keep up rhyme and alliteration throughout his videos And when he doesn’t the video is still beautiful poetic

[@AnomalyINC]

Seeing videos like these makes me want to play, feeling all inspired to make my own stories in this wacky game. Which inevitably ends up with me conquered, cucked and castrated, followed by me ragequitting, enabling mods, and giving all my enemies gout and smallpox.

[@lesigh3410]

I find it ironic how everyone else I know always plays the game to make huge empires that conquer tons of land. Meanwhile I often end up playing as dukes and vassals, and not being as powerful but still being able to have my own power. I like it, honestly. For me I get more enjoyment from roleplaying my characters than taking over the world. I get the appeal behind it and have done it a couple times, but it's the roleplay I'm much more interested in.

[@foodchainstop5297]

@@lesigh3410 I get that. succession is always a pain in the ass as soon as you hold more than one major title. Takes ages to integrate titles. I rather build tall too

[@lesigh3410]

@@foodchainstop5297 oh yes, fuck secession. I lost half of Satanist France to some smug faced brat. Ruined the entire playthrough.

[@someoneelse3456]

@@lesigh3410 It's not much, but it's an honest living.

[@meneldal]

@@foodchainstop5297 There's a trick with the learning skill tree to avoid getting too many children. You can try to get children you don't want killed in battle.

[@supersasukemaniac]

I think they should add like a special artifact for Irish Culture, the Gae Bulgh, the legendary spear of Cu Cuhallin.

[@mattfugate9029]

Anyone else love Alzabo's rhymes with his words? and his nonchalant tone of voice? it's hilarious

[@vicentebernal7506]

God you are the best CK3 channel on YT man.

[@AlzaboHD]

Thanks for the support Vicente!

[@noctusfury6918]

*"All's well that ends Welsh."* That, sir, is a wonderful line. 🤣

[@WulfrunAethelthryth]

12:12 ''This wayward son had to carry on'' Best line in the video!

[@Chris-mt4yq]

The continuous rhyming throughout the video is just amazing, as is the entire video

[@deviousalemanni4235]

Ideas: -Do a random ruler switch campaign -Recreate the old saxons and conquer the germanic and british lands.

[@admontblanc]

Custom designed rulers are perfect for that, and you can play those in ironman meaning they will be a good start without being completely op. I was playing campaign with a roman hellenic character in Italy, because that's the kind of thing that makes the game fun. Sadly it was just before the last update so I had to toss it midway, but it was being a fun save.

[@fabriziocossio3336]

this video made me remember that the mod that revives the actual celtic faith (and many others dead religions) hasnt been updated in such a long time, it was such a good mod too amazing video btw

[@christianmurphy3508]

First time I have ever liked a video specifically for the transition into the sponsor. Here because I just started playing the game and without knowing what I was getting into I have been determined to revive Irish Paganism

[@jean-charleschabrol390]

Your videos are always a treat

[@El_Bellota]

I love the script for these videos, specially with the delivery, it's pleasantly different to any other content creator out there.

[@Logisticious_gg]

I swear I love map games but I mainly just like your poetic dialogue. It's very different from others

[@michaeldiaz5469]

Very much enjoy the way you showcase your series; making it into one long story is pretty enjoyable and fresh to listen to.

[@sirjoey3137]

This is probably the best run I've seen in CK3, very cool idea, and of course well executed.

[@dorktriogamer2865]

I love how helvetica doesn't have any of modern helvetica in it, great video dude

[@jameseld54]

The whole narration feels like an epic poem I love it

[@ImPallasAthena]

The cadence and general way you speak makes it seem that every sentence is going to rhyme, in a good way, you have a very nice voice :)

[@TheHamman25]

Could you do a Viking conquest to Egypt? Grab the pyramids and start a “Nile-Vikings” culture? Make a new religion and conquer that part of the world?

[@skranq]

I very much like how he says it like it's a documentary of something that actually happened

[@katanah3195]

It's certainly a nifty alt history style and it does go well with CK. Very reminiscent of text based "after action reports". I always like the insane things that happen in this game from the earlier start date as a "what could have been in another timeline", particularly how often Christendom ceases to be a thing beyond perhaps the Orthodox Byzantines, if the civil wars don't wreck them.

[@bajlozi6873]

This is the kind of content I subbed for. Love you man!

[@emilyfrib]

the amount of effort you put into each without fail is so incredible I love them all so much

[@andreasask6791]

Great storytelling! Like an ancient saga.

[@Kalafinwë]

To be fair, Paris is already root for the Parisii tribe of Gaul. So renaming it Vercingetorix, a leader of the Arvernii tribe of southern Gaul is rather bizarre aha

[@ethanbailey5636]

Challenge Suggestion: Make Egypt Egyptian Again. Starting as a sub-Saharan Kushite, work your way north to the Nile and restore the Empire of Ancient Egypt. I’m doing this challenge myself and it’s a tough one, since all your neighbors tend to hate you. Requirements: -Start as a Kushite of any rank or culture -Eventually convert to Nubian or Egyptian culture -Form a fusion culture of Egyptian and Nubian to better reflect the culture of Ancient Egypt -Make Coptic your official language -Eventually reform Kushitism to make it better reflect Ancient Egyptian religion -Conquer all lands that were once part of the Egyptian Empire If anyone can do this, it’s you!

[@matthewwood6582]

I do Hellenism! Should totally try and remake Kemet. Love it.

[@17JosephLC]

Hmm, a reformed Kushitism should have Sun Worship, Ancestor Worship and Megalithic Construction as their tenets, right?

[@dreamconscience994]

Ive done it. I made a custom Egyptian Coptic Duke in Ethiopia, worked my way up, United Christianity and locked the Mediterranean as my personal pool

[@TheIgorGruzdev]

0:01 He’s just learning

[@calebtyler10cb]

Im really bad at this game and I’ve never done super well or gotten that far. But this motivates me to keep trying so I can have an amazing dynasty akin to this one

[@kawaiibenson8925]

Form the Roman Empire as a custom character named "Caesarion II Philopator", starting in Alexandria as an Hellenic Egyptian count who claims to descend from the supposed son of Cleopatra and Julius Caesar.

[@PermadeathHD]

Ive been watching you for years now Alzabo, still love every single video LOVE YOU MAN

[@mikerotch7606]

Your cats are so cute lol

[@ФутжакКисо]

+1

[@AlzaboHD]

I'll be sure to give them a pet!

[@jojolafrite90]

I love that the most replayed part in all these types of videos that also still show these stats is always caused by people feverishly avoiding an ad in the actual video. Useful to know where it ends, coupled with the intro chapter ending.

[@AlzaboHD]

People cannot handle the cat ad reads lol

[@Morgenseier]

this was amazing! never been more excited for a YT vid to hit. U do the best content Alzabo, period. :)

[@AlzaboHD]

Thanks for the support Morten !

[@Alblaka]

Besides the topic of the video, but damn man, I love your rhetoric styles. Rhymes and alliterations all over. Never realized how much of a difference that makes when commenting a gameplay recap.

[@chtholly8084]

You have such a way with words you're basically the Eminem of Paradox youtubers

[@Sricel]

possibly one of your best videos so far. loved every bit of it.

[@mortache]

Reminds me of my Circinn Pictish play in CK2 where I restored Rome. Imagine Hadrian's worst nightmare, these Picts jumping over his wall and swarming all over England and then all of Europe!

[@isaiahmatthewaraneta7498]

This is my favourite out of all your CK3 videos so far! Thanks Alzabo!

[@Wytsch]

You've out done yourself with this one Alzabo!

[@RickFoxChicken]

The tip your landlord reference was so incredibly niche I did a double take at the screen and had to make sure I heard you right.

[@beaub152]

I have yet to see someone over 100 and that dude was 109... incredible

[@draxxbergeron3083]

Well, that was quite clever. Very nice work weaving in the myriad rhymes and pop culture references to a unique CK3 playthrough. Bravo, bravi, bravissimi!

[@TY-km8hj]

Only alzaboh could make me watch the sponsor he's got the bars💯🤣

[@katanah3195]

I've seen this probably a dozen times but I keep coming back, it's become a bit of a comfort video for me. I mean Celtic nationalism, especially this kind of pan-Celtic stuff, really does it for me, but this is a really good one. Thanks, man.

[@Frixworks]

Crinán the Conquerer Ciniod the Great Naiton the Elder Rudri the Troubled Géraud the Pendragon

[@calebbrooks7813]

Always love your videos and your narration. This one looked really difficult with all those internal rebellions! I have an idea as well. Form Portugal, and then culture hybridize with Egyptian to form the Realm of Portug-Egypt.

[@ФутжакКисо]

time to have fun watching this video

[@Coid]

Always so soothing to listen to the listing of various atrocities these rulers get up to.

[@acumens4404]

beautiful video baby alzabo💀💀

[@mainmarco]

Damn dude, I can barely hold all of Britania, and you did this! You never cease to amaze me man!

[@turkeyman1123]

ok hear me out. Customize a character on the north african coast to have an indian culture with access to elephants. (Hellenic religion if you want a more challenging start) Merge your culture with a local one to better fit the area and conquer Carthage. March your army of elephants on Rome, Constantinople, and Egypt. Reconquer the Roman empire.

[@_Lakerg]

cool vid bro... in all seriousness alzabo whenever you upload a video I drop everything to watch it. You are my favorite ck, eu4 etc. youtuber and your ideas, editing and commentary are unmatched. Keep it up!

[@ANITA.WYN.]

Holy shit he went balls out with that promotion!

[@FrolBuldyzhov]

I absolutely love how Alzbo rimes, it seems that Dr Seuss plays CK3

[@koalbehy9760]

damn, i don’t think i’ve ever been this early to a video. Hope you’re having an amazing day everyone !!

[@AlzaboHD]

Having a great day, wishing you a great day Koalbehy!

[@camiblack1]

Vassal: I demand you install Naiton the Elder Naiton the Elder: Very well then.

[@theemperor-wh40k18]

Love the storytelling and rhyme =D.

[@jito7377]

I like how you speak in memes and rhymes.

[@I_have_a_Bedframe]

You should try to restore the all germanic holdings from the crimean goths to vandals

[@user-rr6jj5mr6f]

The level of rhymes and alliteration in your videos are almost as beautiful as the nations you create

[@mercianthane2503]

Finally, the Celts are making a comeback. "Paganism", shit, even I would follow that

[@artsproject6900]

a mercian saying this blasphemy?? shame!!

[@yesatitsfinest]

@@artsproject6900 chad of Mercia vs pagan cuck

[@ardentperson6675]

Feels weird to be this early. Always love to see a new video!

[@kalzakath57]

Is there a way you could play as Egypt and restore the Pharaoh's of old?

[@rueisblue]

Pretty hard bc there's a lack of muslim content let alone pre Muslim

[@AbstractTraitorHero]

The old egyptian religion is in the game, so try for that.

[@tywinlannister9391]

@@AbstractTraitorHero No Kemetism isn't Egyptian faith

[@AbstractTraitorHero]

@@tywinlannister9391 It definitely is implied to be or related to it.

[@tywinlannister9391]

@@AbstractTraitorHero related yes but this isn't the same

[@hazelarson6970]

Conquer an empire only with board games and intrigue. Basically you can’t take land with wars and avoid inheritance cheese

[@JohnSmith-rk7zy]

Try to restore the old Egyptian religion/culture, make a pharaoh themed video.

[@lukedelorme8028]

in the ibewria dlc they made a new relegion which has parts of the celtic relegion it's called era zaharra and you can uses event to spawn it.

[@giorgosthoma849]

Great vid! Would you do one where you restore the Persian empire as one of the dynasties that claim decent from the sassanids?

[@geoDB.]

867 sucks

[@giorgosthoma849]

@@geoDB. I like a challnge

[@geoDB.]

@@giorgosthoma849 must be a real challenge conquering dukes

[@Emperor_Haterius]

cool vid bro Genuinely been enjoying your playthroughs, as they are helping me understand the game better. Cheers.

[@Stevonicus]

Oh, come out ye' black and tans/ Come out and fight me like a man/ Tell your wife how you won medals down in Flanders

[@Eru-Ash]

"[He] was almost dead from the Stress of living in Scotland." oof

[@ulysses9488]

Other than Éire being pronounced like ire (I've always known it pronounced like air-a) this is amazing and why all of your content is so captivating!

[@Baldman5871]

Awesome video, great witing !

[@Arthuro761]

who to explain to me how he reduced so much the blows of conversion to Paganism?

[@PraiseJ-Pope]

Learning skill tree and going from unreformed to another unreformed faith doesnt cost much

[@Arthuro761]

@@PraiseJ-Pope she is gone so no more 500% conversion hits that's why i don't understand

[@-landon931]

I like strategy gaming but I mostly watch this guy's content for the poetry. Am I alone in this?

[@snosscorp1595]

You should unify the current russia or USSR boarders as cannibal Siberians

[@AlzaboHD]

товарищ, this is a very good idea!

[@Zguilvozh]

I'd love to see your approach on the "Mother of us all" achievement.

[@flameofphoenix5998]

As a Lüneburgian, I am very offended Historically Lüneburg was very important (a couple hundred years later but shh) Now that I think about it, it is useless isnt it?

[@paulnolack297]

Please make a sequel to this video, I have watched it atleast 4 times

[@DestructoMonkey]

How the hell did you write your script? Literally half an hour of non-stop puns?

[@jakobmcdonald1463]

i wanted to do a pictish pagan playthrough since I noticed them so it was super cool to see you do it !

[@faisalal-qassem3758]

Pictish is kind of a weird choice. We're not even completely sure they were Indo-Europeans, let alone Celtic. Cool game though.

[@keeemon4451]

probably a weird mixture between the people who were there before, like the settlements you see on orkney and the celts/indo-europeans. wish i knew more so my ancestry wasnt so mysterious

[@rueisblue]

Eh, we're pretty confident they were a brittonic celtic people.

[@faisalal-qassem3758]

@@rueisblue At the latter end of their existence, they were certainly speaking a Celtic language. There are still a number of Ogham inscriptions in areas that we think that they inhabited that still haven't been translated because (so far) they don't make any sense if you treat them as if they were Goidelic or Brythonic. At the same time there are a number of stones that pretty clearly are a Brythonic language that resembles an early form of Welsh, which has lead to some speculation as to the ethnic homogeneity of the "Picts" as early and modern historiographers know them. There are some second hand accounts that the Picts described themselves as invaders from (of all places) Scythia who ended up settling in the northeast of Scotland because the Irish wouldn't welcome them onto Ireland, and that they came into some kind of agreement with the neighboring Gaels to take wives from them in exchange for some kind of agreement about succession rules. Personally this sounds a lot like some early medieval Romaboo was trying to give them a Trojan-like origin story a la The Aenead, but I would also not be surprised if there were indeed some remnants of old Europeans like the Basque or Etruscans still running about as late as the 4th century up there. Tldr: Later Picts were definitely speaking a Celtic language, but it's much less clear that was uniformly the case earlier in their history given how diverse the material archeological culture is there.