why do i keep getting murdered?

[khajiit]

I get murdered, then my son gets murdered less than a month playing him then my grandson ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ dies.

[AC Denton]

Someone in your court is probably a serial killer or something.
Make sure members of your court like you so they won't join schemes against you.
Go through your court, vassals etc and find who has high intrigue or such traits. it could be them.

[Darklordnj]

Originally posted by AC Denton:

Someone in your court is probably a serial killer or something.
Make sure members of your court like you so they won't join schemes against you.
Go through your court, vassals etc and find who has high intrigue or such traits. it could be them.

I believe the traits in question are sadistic, lunatic, and possessed

[Deagroth]

Also make sure that your spymaster has as high an approval of you as possible, that their intrigue skill is the highest you can find, and they're set to "Disrupt schemes".

This will at the very least raise your chances of finding or even disrupting the plot.

Greedy and ambitious are also traits to watch out for I'd say.

[khajiit]

Originally posted by Deagroth:

Also make sure that your spymaster has as high an approval of you as possible, that their intrigue skill is the highest you can find, and they're set to "Disrupt schemes".

This will at the very least raise your chances of finding or even disrupting the plot.

Greedy and ambitious are also traits to watch out for I'd say.

does lazy cancel out? my current spymaster is an obese ambitious inbred

[Deagroth]

I don't think so because it looks like one of the few things that'll prevent a.i. from even attempting murder is if it's their kid / grandkid / great grandkid (unless sadistic), they have a high "ai honor" value from personality traits. Being cowed / terrified (second level of fear from dread) prevents it too.

Otherwise it's based on a bunch of weights from relations and personality. Vengefulness, being a rival or nemesis, having been exposed for cheating on a spouse, being within the first couple of steps for succession to a higher tier title, basically intrigue education especially if they go skulduggery focus and/or get the perk "a job done right" are all specifically more likely to murder.

Basically any vengeful, dishonorable, deceitful, or greedy personalities are more likely to do bad stuff, especially if they don't like you and aren't terrified of you. Lazy looked like it was more middle of the road and neither more nor less likely to attempt murder in particular, but the other personality traits and relations will matter.

Ambitious definitely fits in with being more likely to try to murder you, so try to keep their opinion high and/or befriend them. Inbred is actually less likely to try it because they have less rationality, but rationality only matters if they're a landed duke or higher and I think a claimant.

I don't think weight has anything to do with it either from what I looked at.

[JC]

There is a serial killer event that happens far too often. I don't play for long, typically 100 years.. In my many games i've played for that short of time i've had that event pop up at least 3 or 4 times.

You'd think an event like that would be like 1 in 100 or something,, but it plays out more like one in 5.

My latest game, my second born was a serial killer, 5 years into the game the serial killer events started. It happened that fast in another game, the other times it was my second gen.

[Deagroth]

Ah, in that case, if it is the serial killer event, sounds like they're screwed. I thankfully either haven't run into that event or managed to stop it before any real damage was done and never noticed it was a serial killer event.

This is actually the first time I've heard about such an event even existing.

Otherwise, the advice and info will definitely help prevent getting murdered in general.

[RawCode]

serial killer is nice event.

"normal" murders do not trigger any special notifications, also serial killer bypass murder resistance from lovers and dynasty perk