What happened to my steward

[Nikratio]

Hi,

All of a sudden, I got a notification that I no longer had a steward and needed to appoint someone.

However, I did have a steward until some time ago, and I'm fairly certain that I did not receive messages about them dying, resigning, or anything like that.

How can I find out what happened to my previous steward?

[Duilf]

If you remember their name type it into the character search. If you can't search by characteristics you do remember. If you can't remember enough to find them, or can't find them when you remember all their details write them off as dead. Remember to turn top realm to all as a missing councilor probably isn't in your top realm any longer.

A notification that you no longer have a steward is the notice of resignation. You get notifications on death of characters deemed important to you, and this typically includes court members. However that isn't the only way someone even a councilor can leave your court, and death notifications can be missed. As a councilor only death, or being removed from your direct realm will remove them. So the (nearly semi possibly) full list of things that could remove a councilor is death, their territory being part of greater territory you give a vassal, them getting married out of realm, them running away during an event, and adventure inspirations temporarily remove the subject from your realm on completion. Remember these for next time so you can respond quicker.

[sbudy]

Good list. They could also be imprisoned or lose their title. Losing their title would kick them out of your council If they were your vassals.

[Flybox]

If you're a vassal, your own courtiers can be landed out of your court by your liege, as well. Alfred's brother loves doing this to him.

[CannedHobo]

Another fun problem with councillors is they can be forcibly replaced if someone has a favour hook on you and wants to be one of your councillors, or wants to put one of their people in your council.

[Nikratio]

Hmm. This is odd. So the person that I have just re-appointed was also my Steward in the past. He just seems to have "lost" his position. Could it be a bug?

Can you explain what you mean by "Remember to turn top realm to all"?

[jpcerutti]

Another reason could be if they get yoinked to another court because somebody died and they are closely related (parent/child/sibling) to the new ruler.

[Nikratio]

So this just happened again, and luckily I managed to save just before: https://www.filemail.com/d/oodbuhvjcghayeu

As far as I can tell, as soon as the "New Faith" dialog pops up, my steward ceases to be my steward but is otherwise completely unaffected by events.

What am I missing here?