Diseases are more varied and, in general, more deadly!.Headaches, Fevers, Chest Pains, Diarrhea and many more!.Before manifesting a disease you will now gain up to three Symptoms, symptoms can also be harmless products of paranoia.Gone are the days of simply becoming 'Ill', diseases now come in many flavors!.

Trait-specific flavor events, host a masquerade ball, become ambidextrous, or many others!.Severe Wounds can develop into full-blown infections.When Maimed you gain a temporary trait, 'Severely Wounded', which will heal over time.One-Eyed and Disfigured characters will have new on-portrait graphics! Sport eyepatches, broken eyes, silver masks and other ornate facial coverings.When you're maimed you now either become One-Eyed, One-Handed, One-Legged, Disfigured or Mangled.Characters no longer just get 'Maimed', there is now an entire category of maimed traits!.Your Crown Focus is marked with a 3D crown icon on the map for easy reference!.province modifiers giving bonuses and extra holding slots! If the Crown Focus province has the highest level of prosperity special events may trigger giving permanent rewards, i.e.The Crown Focus province will prosper quicker!.Each independent realm of the rank Duke or above, as well as larger vassals, may set a province as their Crown Focus!.Prospering provinces are more likely to attract Epidemics.Prosperity increases the tax and levy regain rate of a province, while also reducing the revolt risk.A new ambition has been added that allows a peaceful ruler to increase the prosperity of their realm.Bringing back loot as a raider will increase prosperity.Random events may increase prosperity of specific provinces.Prosperity ticks up over time, but is decreased by disease, bad governance and war.Prosperity can increase in three levels, providing more benefit for each level.Provinces who are not Depopulated will eventually start to Prosper!.You may ask the leader of a holy order of your faith to build a hospital in your capital in exchange for permission to build a castle there too.An icon in the Province view will show the current 'Hospital Level' of a province, and the benefits of having them.Leper Colonies, providing various benefits. There are several types of buildings that can be constructed in the Hospital holding, i.e.Hospitals protect against Epidemics, and help alleviate the effects of Depopulation.Hospitals are a new type of holding that can be accessed and built in the Extended Province View.A ruler can at any time open the gates and go out of seclusion, doing this too early might have consequences.Special Seclusion events will trigger for secluded courts, i.e.When in Seclusion, contact with the outside world is limited.Secluded characters will be marked by a portcullis icon on their portrait.In seclusion characters are safe from the disease outside, as long as no one inside is already infected. Characters may go into Seclusion when an epidemic threatens, shutting their capital holding off from the world.Chronicle entries for plague outbreaks and regions being depopulated.

Plague audio from occasional coughing to hordes of wailing peasants!.

Plague graphics ravens and rats, peasants stacking or burning corpses, and even a grim reaper if things are really dire!.

Disease and Depopulation will have accompanying aesthetics:.

Depopulated provinces carry many penalties, such as tax, levy and supply limit, but are easier to convert!.

Provinces infected by epidemics, especially the Black Death, might become Depopulated.

Minor Epidemics might have Minor, Normal or Major outbreaks.

Slow Fever or Consumption) are more frequent and spread in a more logical manner.

The new mapmode shows the coverage and spread of Epidemics across the map!.

Hover the banner to see the epidemics currently ravaging the world!.

A plague banner will appear if the world is suffering from the Black Plague or if a minor Epidemic is in your realm, clicking it will bring you to the Epidemic Map Mode.

After the initial outbreak, the Black Death might become endemic and sporadically return.

The aftermath of a major plague might result in your peasants claiming this is the End of Days!.

Your peasantry demands blood! Will you blame the Witches, Jews or Cats - or simply ignore the peasant rabble?.

Widespread plague might trigger an Epidemic Blame Game!.

There are many different Black Death outbreak scenarios, both fictional and historical (controlled via the Game Rules feature).

The Black Death is now a major world event with devastating consequences!.

Revised Black Death & Epidemic mechanics:

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