CK3's 101 Historical Characters Explained (Roads to Power DLC)

[@monseen]

I bestow upon you the honour of being my dinner video!

[@Soul_Tomato]

I bow to you good sir

[@BonafideJas]

Dinner 4 hrs ago? This person is clearly in a part of the world whose accent could perfectly bestow honor

[@Moomoo254]

Same!

[@mirai5850]

Totally overlooked Ibn Battuah he’s an scholar, geographer and writer that has one of the craziest documented travels in history. He traveled all over from morraco to almost all of Africa to Ethiopia/somalia, then when all over Anatolia, the steppes, the Middle East, India, East Asia etc. I’m reading his book currently it’s fascinating and hilarious

[@1451Danny]

Hell yeah. Sleepy time video

[@PlumbKrzy]

How the vid 1 hour ago and this comment 2 days ago

[@onlytwogenders420]

@@PlumbKrzy He probably had early access or something. Some content creators do this as a way to get money for early access to content.

[@It-zMrRomeo]

@@PlumbKrzy it posted for members only first then made public today

[@Soul_Tomato]

@@PlumbKrzy he’s a Paladin member. Technically there are 3 ranks but anyone above the middle rank (knight) gets videos 2 days early

[@MarkoT701]

just wanted to congratulate you for your recent sponsorship with paradox🎉 apologies if I am a bit late

[@Soul_Tomato]

Thanks dude

[@MarkoT701]

@@Soul_Tomato np

[@qhu3878]

didnt expect tomato to talk about my hometown within a minute, cool. also lincoln cathedral is really cool and was the tallest building in the world, taking the title from the great pyramid of giza

[@Soul_Tomato]

That is a surprising fun fact. How long did it hold the title?

[@qhu3878]

​​​​@@Soul_Tomato about a century iirc, until the spires fell off edit, some further info, the cathedral was built in the mid 1070s but was severely damaged in 1185 by an earthquake and had to be practically rebuilt from the ground up, making it one of if not the last project aaron funded. the central spire was added in 1311 making it the largest building in the world and the spire would collapse in a pariculaly bad storm in 1549 which left the cathedral in its modern state, more or less

[@vivirtuous]

I used the time of this video to vacuum and mop my apartment! Was really fun to play “Hey I know that guy!” as a history nerd :D

[@Soul_Tomato]

Hahah glad you liked it

[@lakhshyalakey8078]

Akka mahadevi, the term “akka” is just “ elder sister”, like how in common parlance we refer to people as “bro”, “buddy” etc. so Akka is not her name, it’s just a casual prefix. It can he understand to how Catholic priests are called “fathers”, yet father is just a prefix and not a given name.

[@Soul_Tomato]

So her name is Mahadevi then?

[@lakhshyalakey8078]

@@Soul_Tomato even that is complex, as Mahadevi means “Great lady”, which too is a honorific like “Genghis Khan”, while his real name is Temujin. In case of Mahadevi, her given name is lost in time.

[@Soul_Tomato]

Interesting. Thats a shame

[@fuynnywhaka101]

so it translates to Big Sister Great Lady?

[@toadlover1234]

17:29 ibn batuta traveled from Morocco to Malaysia and back unless I am mistaken

[@Soul_Tomato]

You could be right. I claim no expertise on anything or anyone.

[@mementomori771]

I hope some mods like AGOT and Lords in exile use this feature

[@Soul_Tomato]

This is a feature almost directly from Princes of Darkness actually

[@granite_4576]

Ah awesome video, I actually searched for this after release and have been busy and not playing so it's actually news to me there's a list out there now.

[@KohanKilletz]

Using this video to find historical figures that have no artistic depiction so that I can make an artistic depiction of each of them

[@Soul_Tomato]

@@KohanKilletz that would be actually amazing. I was disappointed that quite a few of them didn’t.

[@nwahnerevar9398]

Be interested to see if there will be a mod to add more of these figures that Paradox missed. Just from watching this I feel like it's missing quite a few significant figures such as Ferdowsi, the author of the Shahnameh. Another one might be Julian of Norwich, the anchoress and first known female English writer.

[@Soul_Tomato]

Obviously there’s a dramatic gap in characters, history is enormous. I’m surprised by how many of them were just “acclaimed scholar” and I do hope we get more further east but I think it’s a good start.

[@ShummaAwilum]

Surprised that Ahmad ibn Fadlan didn't make the cut, especially given the popularity of Vikings in the game

[@shiny1556]

I know with the third crusade start that a lot of the later dates aren’t too outrageous but it’s still so cool and kinda funny that you can start in the 800s and then jump ship to become Marco Polo lol

[@Au_Daisy]

Thanks! I love this kind of content!

[@leephilips5781]

Hell yeah, can’t wait to add this to my Sleepy Soul Playlist along with the Grom series and the Godherja lore dump video ❤

[@herkles5416]

Really cool video In regards to Basava, he was a believe in equality, and against the caste system and would go to create a new branch of Shaivism, Linyatism. I don't know if his faith of Linyatism is in the game or not, but it would be neat if it was.

[@Soul_Tomato]

Would be a great time to add it if not

[@ItIsYouAreNotYour]

Ah yes, the anti-mage. My arch nemesis.

[@ShummaAwilum]

9:33 Demetrios Kydones was evidently a very gifted baby.

[@wojciechmichalak94]

I was disapointed that there was non polish charakter on the list. Glad I watched to the end.

[@Soul_Tomato]

Haha and what a cool character he is too

[@smackthenoc]

Amazing video, very soothing to listen to your voice

[@Soul_Tomato]

That’s kind of you, thanks!

[@gurkeschurke6667]

Nasrettin Hoca is actually the arch nemesis of Rumi. Both lived during the mongol occupation of Anatolia. Rumi supported the occupation whilst Ahi supported the local turkmen. It’s even rumoured that Rumi was so hateful of ahi that he took part in his murder. To keep Ahi Evrens Memory alive Turkmen started to tell his stories wherever they went.

[@Tophatted]

9:57 This guy randomly spawned in my playthrough, but I didn’t exactly get to do anything cool with that. I was fighting a war and the first thing I hear about him is that he’s been slain in battle

[@kevinszillat6453]

23:45 I can only think of Age of Empires II "The blood on La Hire's sword is almost dry!"

[@TheBasedTyrant]

Watching this on my day off instead of playing because the hotfix 4 days ago keeps making the game crash every 10 minutes.

[@hopeundertheblacksun]

1:10 I'm kashmiri so it was a (pleasant) surprise seeing Abhinavgupt in game! Hes one of the greatest Kashmiris to ever live.

[@Soul_Tomato]

I would love for people to elaborate more on characters of their own culture. A simple wiki search and blurb in a video like this would never do a lot of them justice I’m sure.

[@hopeundertheblacksun]

@@Soul_Tomato if i could,I'd definitely create a mod that adds a lot of extra content for the subcontinent. As of September 2024,playing in India is really really boring. I usually don't even play in Asia

[@Soul_Tomato]

I have a video coming out this coming month talking about things I’d like to see going forward and that is def one.

[@costasvas341]

I can't believe they didn't include Anemas, the last son of the Emir of Crete. He served as a Byzantine commander, almost killed Sviatoslav and founded an influential Byzantine family. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anemas_(died_971)

[@erso5172]

Just letting you know it's "posthumously" not "post-humorously"

[@yungfiend6830]

Seriously though who would name their adopted child john when they already have a son named john? 20:21

[@Eltener123]

I don't like that they used the (wrong) Latinised versions of some people's names. Like "Averroes" is such a bastardisation of the poor guy's name he probably wouldn't even recognise it at all.

[@Soul_Tomato]

Tbf it’s largely a western audience who plays the game but it is interesting they wouldn’t just use their regular names.

[@Eltener123]

​@@Soul_Tomato There's a huge Chinese player base as well. Not as sure about the rest of the world but I doubt it's as tiny as their Eurocentrism would suggest

[@Oujouj426]

​@Eltener123 It's more of an anglocentrism in this case, specifically for language. Leaving it in the original name makes no difference for most languages, even European ones, but for whatever reason, English speakers have trouble pronouncing things that aren't in English.

[@theNunnceler]

i think you made an error and showed ibn battuta at the same time as you mentioned someone called ibn kaluda (ibn kaldun maybe?)

[@Soul_Tomato]

That is definitely possible

[@jorbyt7421]

How often will you upload the red shield brotherhood playthrough?

[@Soul_Tomato]

Weekly. I am cutting down to two videos a week after this week for my own sanity but they’ll all be more edited and with their own unique intros.

[@FromRussiaWithLuv007]

How long until someone does a Landless adventurer A-Z?

[@Soul_Tomato]

I honestly don’t think it would be possible. I’ve played the dlc for about 150 hours and haven’t even seen one spawn so

[@FromRussiaWithLuv007]

@@Soul_Tomato well at least all the selectable ones…

[@Soul_Tomato]

Oh landless adventurer. I see now. No idea. Wouldn’t be me but would be cool to see

[@ItIsYouAreNotYour]

@@Soul_Tomato Maybe there is a bug that is cause them not to appear or alert you?

[@Soul_Tomato]

@@ItIsYouAreNotYour I think I needed to change one of the settings. The default is you only get alerted if they’re in your domain. The other is if they’re in your range.

[@Jo-Heike]

DANTE!

[@Soul_Tomato]

Comedy will never be the same

[@martimsousa2601]

Good video

[@palms014]

Well, let's wait years for it to come to xbox

[@Ala-n1z]

is ibn khaldun in there

[@martimsousa2601]

😎👍

[@kornelszecsi6512]

Based Plethon

[@Vrilled]

Is it possible to spawn in any of these characters through the debug?

[@Soul_Tomato]

Yeah as far as I’m aware you can. I’m not sure what the command is though

[@theshadowsagas3617]

14:31 thanks to Sam O'Nella all I could think of here was, "Ha! Paintbrush AIDS"

[@TrajGreekFire]

wait a sec, Ferdowsi isn't in this game?

[@roybatty9935]

There is no humor in posthumous. Never has been.

[@Soul_Tomato]

Death is hilarious imo

[@roybatty9935]

@@Soul_Tomato That's cool and all, but that's still not how you say posthumous

[@martimsousa2601]

GG

[@oldylad]

2:30 his last name is pronounced boar jah, not boar gee ah

[@erstanden3637]

What about St Gregory Palamas

[@FromRussiaWithLuv007]

10:52 Normans? Mormons?

[@Soul_Tomato]

lol might have been a slip of the tongue. Def not a Mormon

[@kaiserwilhelmthememer6996]

Wouldn't it be better if you showed where these characters are?

[@Soul_Tomato]

Well no because they spawn in. They aren’t anywhere at the game start. PLUS they can spawn in anywhere. That was explained in the intro.

[@shinsenshogun900]

@@Soul_Tomato Very explainable with future characters such as Alfonse de Borgia

[@kaiserwilhelmthememer6996]

​@@Soul_TomatoI'm kinda retarded, cheers!

[@noragrey7016]

Where tf is alienor of aquitaine :-/

[@Soul_Tomato]

Huh? She’s Henry II’s wife so…in jail I believe at the start of 1178 for trying to help her son Henry usurp his Dad iirc but also still married and the ruler of Aquitaine. She’s like 41 at the game start I think.

[@martimsousa2601]

Hi

[@martimsousa2601]

🧐

[@Uzair_Of_Babylon465]

As a Pakistani Muslim I can't wait to play as founder of the Delhi sultanate Qutb ud-Din Aibak

[@Mr-8-Ball-88]

Al-biruni is giving me too much Persian vibes... Birnuni wich is بیرونی in Persian and "al" being used during the old times when islam was in its age and was getting even more popular after. I think he is persian because i saw many scholar names like him that were like this like "al-biyabani" «بیابانی»

[@Soul_Tomato]

That would make sense. His name is derived from the Persian word meaning outskirts.

[@elhomiederp]

Time Stamps please