Great People
Crusader Kings 2 has a lot of historical characters, but most of them are landed title holders and not so appropriate for our adaptation of the World of Darkness. While Princes of Darkness has more than 800 White Wolf canon characters and some of them are also fictionalized version of people in history, we have added "Great Person" event that spawns some of the great warriors, artists, theologians as well as some of the most infamous rebels and criminals as characters to the mod. They spawn into the game at a historically appropriate time. Most of these characters were unlanded in life. When one spawns, if you are in their diplomatic range, you will have chance to interact with the character. Will you turn them into a vampire? a ghoul? Will you devour them? Will you ignore them? If you decide to ignore them, there is a great chance that other vampires will not. Some of these great people also become great vampires as well.
Their appearance in the game also helps give players a sense of historical progression in the game, while historical geo-political events seem somewhat distant to the long unlives of the undead.
One technical limitation to how these great people are spawned into the game is that we can not have wikipedia links directly accessible from the character record in game. So, instead, we will provide a list of great people in the mod here with their wiki links. Good hunting!
- Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi
- Alice Kyteler
- Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī
- Black Agnes of Dunbar
- Agnes Sorel
- Alexander Nevsky
- Anthony of Padua
- Antonio Martinez de Cala
- Baba Ishak
- Beatriz de Menezes da Silva
- Birgitta Birgersdotter
- Catherine of Siena
- Clare of Assisi
- Cesare Borgia
- Christine de Pizan
- Cola di Rienzo
- Dante Alighieri
- Diane de Poiters
- Edward Longshanks
- Erzsébet Báthory
- Elizabeth of Hungary
- Ernst von Mansfeld
- Eustace Folville
- Fibonacci
- Florian Geyer of the Black Company
- Galaezzo Maria Sforza
- Geoffrey Chaucer
- Gilles de Rais
- Girolamo Savonarola
- Götz von Berlichingen, the Iron Hand
- Hadewijch
- Hermann von Salza
- Ibn Arabi
- Ibn Khaldun
- Imperia Cognati
- Jan Hus
- Jan Žižka
- Jeanne Antoinette Poisson
- Jeanne de Clisson
- Joan of Arc
- John Cabot
- John Hawkwood
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Lucrezia Borgia
- Marco Polo
- Margaret I
- Michael Scot
- Mindaugas
- Niccolo Machiavelli
- Nicolaas Zannekin
- Nikephoros Blemmydes
- Pons de Capduelh
- Rodrigo Borgia
- Roi Xordo
- Skanderbeg
- Snorri Sturluson
- Subutai
- Teresa of Avila
- Theodore Metochites
- Theodora Doukaina Komnene Palaiologina
- Theodor Stephan Freiherr von Neuhoff
- Thibaud IV
- Thomas Aquinas
- Thomas Müntzer, the Eternal
- Timur
- Tomas de Torquemada
- Ulrich von Liechtenstein
- Vasco da Gama
- Wat Tyler
- William Wallace
In addition, sometimes randomly generated interesting mortal characters will also appear. Why they are not historical characters, they may still be worth your attention as a player. There may also be some easter egg characters to find!