Artifacts

[The Great Fantastico]

I hoping someone can help me. what is the easiest way of finding and/or creating arifats... do you need to be in a specific focus? also are there any event console codes to find them? I'm hoping to make my own but am curious about all the other options...

[☭Woodsman☭]

I scored the Emerald Tablet from a Hermetic Society quest last night. I scored a saint's fingerbone or something like that from sieging a temple in war. There was a quest that either just pops up or is unlocked by your steward using his new improve realm task, where you spend varying amounts of gold to make the crown jewels, which is a collection of 3 items.

[Sergent H]

By being in the holy christian sect (don't remember the names), you can have the event to steal some relic or someone ask you to "protect" it

[crisselis]

You can:
Create your own , by being a member of the Hermetic Society
Receive some , by ranking up in a monastic order
Invite a weaponsmith at your court and buy some weapons/armours from him , you can also get jewels and crowns this way from another character
Steal them from other characters by raiding
Steal them from monasteries , if you are a member of the monastic orders ( Keep in mind , that you can get killed..I actually got stabbed by a monk trying to steal one )
Idk is there are other ways , thats what I found so far..

[The Great Fantastico]

is stealing from monestries a random event when you are army commander or an intrigue/mission. how do you invite a weaponsmith?

[crisselis]

Originally posted by The Great Fantastico:

is stealing from monestries a random event when you are army commander or an intrigue/mission. how do you invite a weaponsmith?

Both are random events...
For the weaponsmith , you get an event which says an renowned weaponsmith is passing through your lands and you can invite him at your court..You will get an option to choose what kind of items you want and the quality of it..The cheapest one seems to be 75 gold and the most expensive one 400..They give martial , prestige and personal combat skill
For the monastery , you get an event where another member of the society invites you to show an holy relic..You wil get an option to steal it

[Random]

random event / mission for the dominican order, and benevitus or whatever their name is order. you basically desecrate tombs in monastry catacombs and come back with finger bones and junk from dead saints. they tend to give +1 passive stat as well as peity and minor prestige.

It can add up though, and having 3-4 finger bones in your inventory will pay dividends. especially once you start stacking all the magnus opus books, crown jewels, and black smith sword. you get some pretty crazy stat boosts.

[Random]

gold scales based on government / rank. Merchant republics are 3k gold for top weapon crafting, feudal and iqta are ~1500 gold, while tribal is 450ish.

I always get the most expensive one anyway, and just let my realm go to crap for a year or 2, as once you have it you don't need to worry about it ever again on any of your heirs. so its a 1 off turmoil.

The crown jewels however, they kinda wreck you... the best one is like 2500-3k gold for feudal... so merchants are probably like 5k or something stupid. but its a multi-peice set for that craft so you get a crown + ceremonal sceptar thing that can be equiped at the same time as your blacksmith sword. so you can wear 3 items at once + all the passive junk.

[The Great Fantastico]

do you need a specific focus to allow the weaponsmith...Ive been sitting as king of Jeruselem for 20 years and nothing... hermatic by the way...

[crisselis]

Originally posted by The Great Fantastico:

do you need a specific focus to allow the weaponsmith...Ive been sitting as king of Jeruselem for 20 years and nothing... hermatic by the way...

I dont think so..Its purely random as far as I know

[Marcus]

I have the crown jewels i.e ruby septer, golden sword & crown of pearls. When the event fired I was shocked at the prices so opted for the 2nd most expensive which also gives pretty good stats (feudal +6, city +6, tribal +6 opinion & personal combat +1)

I also inherited the Emeral tablet (+2 learning & +5.0% technology spread rate) & the Magnus Opus on Universal Panacea from my father (previous ruler) which gives +2 learning & 0.5 personal health - pretty cool.

I also have the mace & lance which I also inherited gives 0.25 +1 martial each!

my previous ruler was leader of the Hermetic Society for years and the current one has climbed to 5th position in 7 years!

[The Great Fantastico]

just on the off chance any event console codes to induce any events? obviously not for my main game...would like to play around with them though and see what they are like...

[Random]

Originally posted by LaBern:

I have the crown jewels i.e ruby septer, golden sword & crown of pearls. When the event fired I was shocked at the prices so opted for the 2nd most expensive which also gives pretty good stats (feudal +6, city +6, tribal +6 opinion & personal combat +1)

I also inherited the Emeral tablet (+2 learning & +5.0% technology spread rate) & the Magnus Opus on Universal Panacea from my father (previous ruler) which gives +2 learning & 0.5 personal health - pretty cool.

I also have the mace & lance which I also inherited gives 0.25 +1 martial each!

my previous ruler was leader of the Hermetic Society for years and the current one has climbed to 5th position in 7 years!

The Hermetic Society Magnum Opus' scale based on the learning of the character when you create them

There are 4 ranks to them, Learning 12-15, 16-19, 20-24, and 25+

At 25+ the +2 learning 0.5 health panacea gives +3 learning +1 health.

So when doing the hermetic society, always ensure your realer has 25 or higher before using your single use mangum opus. Just a tip ;)

I'm fairly sure the higher ranked one would replace a lower ranked one... however if they are unique... then having 4 different ranked magnum opus of each of the 5-6 types would be pretty damn nuts... May need to check this >.>

Originally posted by The Great Fantastico:

just on the off chance any event console codes to induce any events? obviously not for my main game...would like to play around with them though and see what they are like...

The event codes can all be found @\Steam\steamapps\common\Crusader Kings II\events\mnm_SOMETHING <--- where something is a society name, etc

For example "Event MNM.9000" starts the find rare artifact line, for stuff like...

religion_group = christian
has_artifact = spear_of_destiny
has_artifact = bones_of_st_peter
has_artifact = staff_of_moses
has_artifact = davids_harp

religion = norse_pagan
religion = norse_pagan_reformed
has_artifact = mjolnir
has_artifact = andvaranaut

Because after all.... It's over 9000!!!... I saw what you did there paradox ;)

[The Great Fantastico]

ok. either im being exceedingly dense or misunderstood iwas looking for the event codes that you could type directly into the console and start the chain or simply give to a character so I could simply see what they were like. However none of the above helps me...either invaild event ids or nothing to do with artifacts...

[Saxon]

The Hermetic Society is great for their artefact spam. In fact you will get so many that you will wish that you could get rid of duplicates.

[The Great Fantastico]

oddly not...been king of jerusalem for 20 years...head of Hermetic society and aside from finding the spear of destiny when I crusaded for jerusalem in the first place....nothing. I was hoping for actual event id so that i could see if they were worth it....also getting quite annoyed that every character out there has multiple artifacts and I have one...from 20 years ago...