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How to become a Christian God-King in CK3: Recreating Typing of the Dead
This video guides you through the process of becoming a God-Emperor in Crusader Kings 3. Starting in China, you'll venture west, embrace the Christian faith, create a new heresy, raise an army to conquer a kingdom, and ultimately ascend as a God-Emperor. This process involves faith modification, territorial expansion, and political maneuvering.
1. 🗺️ Beginning the Journey to God-Emperor: From China to the West
- ✅ The game starts with a character named Jing Fein, who has outstanding intelligence, ambition, eccentricity, temperance, and madness.
- ✅ The goal is to create a Christian heresy and become a God-Emperor.
- ✅ The first step is to go on a pilgrimage to the west to gain faith.
- ✅ Head to Byzantium through a treasure hunt contract.
- ✅ On the journey, you meet a learned nun who accompanies you.
00:00 - 01:25
1. 🗺️ Beginning the Journey to God-Emperor: From China to the West
- ✅ The game starts with a character named Jing Fein, who has outstanding intelligence, ambition, eccentricity, temperance, and madness.
- ✅ The goal is to create a Christian heresy and become a God-Emperor.
- ✅ The first step is to go on a pilgrimage to the west to gain faith.
- ✅ Head to Byzantium through a treasure hunt contract.
- ✅ On the journey, you meet a learned nun who accompanies you.
01:26 - 04:54
2. ⚔️ Recruiting an Army and Gaining Faith: The Life of an Adventurer
- ✅ Hire mercenaries in Abdan to create an army of 600 men.
- ✅ Secure food by mixing Chinese and Bedouin cuisine.
- ✅ Obtain the Scythian Sword by looting a tomb.
- ✅ Take the Theologian trait to increase faith.
- ✅ Arrive in Byzantium despite language barriers and food shortages to complete the treasure hunt.
- ✅ Work part-time to earn money.
- ✅ Persuade thugs who are harassing nobles and sell fake amulets.
- ✅ Upgrade the camp and increase the army.
- ✅ Spend 7 years in Greece earning money, writing books, and strengthening the army.
04:55 - 07:53
3. ✝️ The Birth of a New Faith: The Supreme Emperor Faith
- ✅ Get baptized in the Jordan River and have a strange dream.
- ✅ A pregnant wolf appears in the camp, you get a dog and name it 'Dog King'.
- ✅ Go on a pilgrimage to Santiago to gain faith.
- ✅ Encounter a thunderstorm and realize the teachings of Confucius.
- ✅ Complete the Theologian skill tree and obtain a piece of the True Cross.
- ✅ Create the Supreme Emperor Faith.
- ✅ Change to polytheism and modify the faith to allow religious heads to serve concurrently.
07:54 - 09:46
4. 👑 Ascending as God-Emperor: Adopting the Mandala Government and Invasion
- ✅ Return to Southeast Asia and adopt the Mandala government type.
- ✅ Increase the army and purchase war elephants, cataphracts, ballistae, akritoi, and armored infantry.
- ✅ Invade the Pagan God-Emperor with an army of 3,200 men.
- ✅ Hire mercenaries to strengthen the army and besiege the enemy's fortress.
- ✅ Defeat the enemy after four battles and win the war.
- ✅ Become a Christian Devaraja, that is, a God-Emperor.
09:47 - 12:07
5. 🛡️ Stabilizing and Expanding the Kingdom: Building a Holy Empire
- ✅ Stabilize power and build a holy empire.
- ✅ Marry an albino farmer with high stewardship to increase income.
- ✅ Make surrounding rulers vassals, station troops, and force them to follow the faith.
- ✅ Explain the characteristics of the Mandala government.
- ✅ Upgrade the capital temple complex.
- ✅ Choose the Mandala aspect of destruction to gain combat-related bonuses.
- ✅ Sacrifice blood to bless the harvest and increase legitimacy.
- ✅ Hold hunts and festivals to persuade the world of your rule.
- ✅ Suffer damage from an earthquake.
- ✅ Sacrifice a pig and hope for the best.
- ✅ The kingdom is stabilized and you start a war to obtain a kingdom title.
12:08 - 14:45
6. 🇨🇳 Securing Chinese Territory and Ascending as Emperor: Realizing the Dream
- ✅ Peasants revolt but are easily suppressed.
- ✅ Promise to implement the aspect of destruction.
- ✅ Confirm the success of the war by seeing weavers bowing to you.
- ✅ Take part of China in the Heavenly Unification War.
- ✅ Convert to Mandala and then back to Christianity.
- ✅ Pay tribute to the Mandala Empire of Strava.
- ✅ At the age of 63, strive to become emperor.
- ✅ Manage the kingdom and end the tribute.
- ✅ Build the Kingdom of Heaven.
14:46 - 15:57
7. 👑 God, Pope, Emperor: Achieving the Impossible
- ✅ The old emperor dies according to the natural cycle of Mandala rulers, and Empress Pangxmentia ascends to the throne.
- ✅ The Empress gains faith and attains divine status.
- ✅ Start a crusade from Thailand through India, Arabia, and to Jerusalem.
- ✅ Win the battle and seize the Christian holy land, becoming the Pope of the faith.
- ✅ Bless the bloodline to doubly bless the dynasty.
- ✅ After Clementia dies, a stuttering, cynical drunkard succeeds to the throne.
- ✅ The empire becomes filled with endless rebellions.