Shadows of Forbidden Gods

Shadows of Forbidden Gods

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The Courtesan
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The Courtesan

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This is my very first mod to be uploaded to the steam workshop, and was made for the Modjam.

The Courtesan is an intrigue agent that focuses on forming relationships with the heroes in order to exploit their trust for maximum effect- whether that is through enshadowing them while traveling alongside them, or whether that is by framing them with a horrible scandal to cause them to lose the trust of those around them.

The Courtesan's ability to get along with heroes in this way allows her to be more versatile as well, as while she is still intrigue focused, every stat is considered when it comes to befriending heroes.
Further, she moves along with the heroes, making her rival the Harvester in how much she will be moving around within your games should you want her constantly working with the heroes to gain their trust.

She has a simple stat array of 4 Intrigue, 3 Might, 2 Command, and 1 Lore, allowing her to also pivot into combat if you desire- though she won't be gaining much menace working behind the scenes as she does.

This is not tested for the DLC, though it should work with it, and may still have some bugs that need to be ironed out- but don't worry, game ending or game crashing bugs should not be in this release.
The most you'll see is the somewhat finnicky way of placing personal items in locations to scandal people!

Have a great game!

Note: She is likely not compatible with the Broken Maker, as I have never felt the desire to test or play the Broken Maker.
11 Comments
Katrina  [author] Aug 24 @ 7:36pm 
@Bambi

In my personal canon, she's an adventurer who travels alongside heroes, which likely involves fighting and combat. So on a personal history level, she's aware of how to use a blade and how to kill a person.

On a lore level, if you're going to be traveling or a hero you likely need to know how to fight, and she's by far the heaviest traveler of any of the base game characters with exception to the Harvester (who also has 3 might).

And finally, on a gameplay level, it gives her another thing to do and pivot her into, allowing more flexibility to the players without going overboard.
Bambi Aug 24 @ 5:52pm 
Why on earth would a courtesan have high might? Think this through for a second.
SnickeringSnaussages Jul 21 @ 1:05pm 
I just made my first mod, The Tinker as a single event, just to get my feet wet.
SnickeringSnaussages Jul 21 @ 1:04pm 
Must have been Mall's mod- I'm looking at that one with him now, so I'll ask him to test it.

A lot of his events have so many conditionals that they rarely if ever occur. You know, cause each one adds another layer of difficulty for it to proc?

I finally opened the mod and I was like "Man I've been playing with this mod for years and I've seen maybe a third of these" lol.

I'm gonna try courtesan this game just to see how it goes. thanks
Katrina  [author] Jan 19 @ 2:57pm 
I don't know anything about the 'bring a box to a hex' challenge, so I suspect that's either vanilla or some other mod since I don't think this mod adds anything of that nature.

As for stolen items, you can bring those to the home city of the target who owns the item and, if that city is at a proper amount of infiltration or shadow then you can cause an Advanced Scandal which has fun effects. Alternatively, you can give the item to the Courtier, the Trickster, or your local neighborhood blood mage (I have no idea how blood magic works tbh).

Only thing I will warn you of is that I've yet to fix a graphical bug- you need more infiltration than it tells you you do, so either make the town very infiltrated, or just enshadow the place.
SnickeringSnaussages Jan 19 @ 7:58am 
Also, what do you do with the items you steal?
SnickeringSnaussages Jan 19 @ 7:57am 
I had some sort of challenge come up to bring a box to a hex, but when I arrived nothing procced.
Sidekick1982 Dec 14, 2024 @ 1:06pm 
Good mod. Straightforward agent, works well with the Courtier.
Katrina  [author] May 4, 2024 @ 2:08pm 
Thank you Wooaa! I'm very glad you enjoy it so far!

- - UPDATE - -
As it turned out, I accidentally set it so that if the target likes Shadow, then it QUADRUPLES the Challenge complexity instead of HALVES the Challenge complexity of enshadowing them. This is fixed: It now halves as appropriate, and if they hate shadow, it quadruples as appropriate.
wooaa May 4, 2024 @ 11:53am 
This is a lot of fun to play with. Great job!