Missing herald, immortal king

[emma9158]

After 14 ingame years, I have started to suspect that there is a hiccup with my game, and I would be very interested to hear if the situation is the same for others, i.e. normal, or if this is something specific in my game.
During the first 3-5 years, there would arrive a herald to the valley every other years, with requests from the king Lotar the Cruel. I completed these request, with the result that I now have +20 in disposition with the king but -10 with my villagers.
However, after approx 4-6 years, the herald never showed up in the valley again.
At the same time, the king Lotar the Cruel just lives on and on and on - I thought that someone so cruel would have been murdered or something by now.
I checked with a friend, who is also playing the game, and he has already experienced several kings, although he has less ingame years than me.
So, question is, is there something wrong with my game, or is it just randomly so that king Lotar happens to live for a long time in my game? And, of course, why doesn't the herald have any wishes anymore?
I'm trying to think back on where in the storyline I was when the herald vanished, and Im thinking that it could have been around the time when I completed the main storyline.

[Morri]

The herald is very random. Sometimes it can take years before he shows up. As for your king; do you know how old he was? (as far as I know you can only find this out by asking the herald though) His age is also random, so it's highly possible that your king is just very young, while your friend has always gotten kings a bit older so they die faster.

[emma9158]

Alright, I understand. Good to get some feedback on this, as I was really starting to think it was related to finishing the main questline.
The king was, as far as I can recall, 35 years old when I first met the herald. That should mean he is around 50-55 now, so maybe I can hope for a change eventually. (Being on good terms with Lotar the Cruel obviously means losing disposition points with my villagers, which I didn't understand from start, so I'm really looking forward to a new king).

[7C]

They do die of old age. There used to be a mechanic where failing or ignoring their quests caused them to die younger, I don't know if that's still implemented or if it's been removed (a lot's changed with this game quickly). I was talking on r/RealMedievalDynasty and Goldie said something like they have a chance to show up every season, and any season they don't show is supposed to increase the chance next season. I was asking because I also had a file where the Herald hadn't shown up in a WHILE.

[hubbemattsson]

The longest I waited was 19 years... Before that, I saw the herold 7 times..... In 9 seasons. So, yes. It really is random, even if the chanses ads up.

[Goldi_Toplitz]

If all fails we could replace him for you. Just let us know.

[Morri]

Originally posted by nl_toplitz:

If all fails we could replace him for you. Just let us know.

Goldi's power knows no bounds. Can even dethrone kings! :-)

[Morri]

Originally posted by emma9158:

(Being on good terms with Lotar the Cruel obviously means losing disposition points with my villagers, which I didn't understand from start, so I'm really looking forward to a new king).

If this had been a BlackAdder episode, your new king would probably turn out being "Lotar II the Even Crueler" xD

[xerxes0]

I never had him show up at all yet starting to see if it is a bug

[Goldi:AI]

You may have missed him. After you have reached a certain point in the Chapter quests his chance to show up will increase until it reaches 100%, then start over.

That said, if you send us your save, we can take a look.

[emma9158]

Several ingame years have now passed since my original post. My son, who wasn't born the last time I saw the herald, is now 15 years old, my own char I believe is 37. Still no herald, and king Lotar the Cruel just lives on.
I have browsed the forum, and it seems I am not the only one who haven't spotted the herald for a very long time.

However, a friend of mine recently started to play this game, too, and while talking to him I have started to realize that there are also a lot of random quests that have ceased to exist in my game. In fact, there are only a few remaining that are repeating themselves (Night hunt, Lawish meal, getting iron ore/wool, npc needs mushroom for medication, Just like papa, buying noble shoes in Hornica, competition between seamsters, convincing angry wife to make friends again, maybe some more).

The quests that I know I haven't had since approx the same time as the herald showed up are at least these:
- chop down trees for npcs.
- contest with a npc for chopping down trees.
- npc needs various kind of seeds for planting.
- contest with a npc in hunting down X animals.

Now, I have been playing this game for many months, I think I started in august, so there have been a few version upgrades since then. I wonder if maybe they could have affected this?

[hubbemattsson]

Thats just random. I promise. Even if thats hard to trust, when seeing what you seen.

But. You can allways send a savefile to a bughunter, to check if there is something going on. Or to "change king" for you.

[Morri]

Originally posted by emma9158:

Still no herald, and king Lotar the Cruel just lives on.

Damn that guy is persistent xD
I'm curious to know how long kings can live. Some named npc's can make it til well in their 90's, so that might also be the case for kings?
(Though with a name like that you'd suspect someone would off him sooner or later.)

[Karl]

In my game with hard game settings, a herald comes to the valley once every 1 or 2 game years and I've played 36 years with only one king. Before i played with easy game settings. Then herald came 3 times, after that he didn't show his face again ( i think 20 years). When the old king was dead and a new one came, herald started visiting valley again.

[Morri]

Originally posted by Karl:

When the old king was dead and a new one came, herald started visiting valley again.

Hm, maybe that's also the reason for the OP not getting a visit anymore. Her king is titled "the Cruel", so maybe he had his herald executed?