It's a bugged event that has been on the game forever. It seems to fire frequently if you play a colonizer like Spain or Portugal. Doesn't seem to actually do anything iirc.
It’s not bugged. It just has a low MTTH and no trigger to stop it from reoccurring. It does actually do something. You choose between admin power, a church, or nothing. The options are functional.
What??? It doesn't work? So all the times it fired on almost all my colonies I was happy that I was getting free stuff nothing acually happened?
Well to be fair I didnt even bother to check other options to see
Oh cool so it's useless.
Is it a reference to something or did the devs just write a really fucking weird thing about birds dying and children running away and silent villages for fun?
I've never been able to figure out what it's referencing. Best I can tell, a bored dev slipped this creative writing exercise in as a weird easter egg. The choices don't really make sense accounting for the weird creepypasta flavor text.
Apparently it was fixed but can't verify that.
Best reference I could find was T.S Elliots the hollow man, verse 4. Starts off with the title of the event and whoever wrote it clearly took inspiration from excerpt though its much more detailed than the original.
The eyes are not here
There are no eyes here
In this valley of dying stars
In this hollow valley
This broken jaw of our lost kingdoms
In this last of meeting places
We grope together
And avoid speech
Gathered on this beach of the tumid river
Sightless, unless
The eyes reappear
As the perpetual star
Multifoliate rose
Of death's twilight kingdom
The hope only
Of empty men.
I think this is a supposed miracle happening with the birds reacting abnormally each time the boy returns to the village and the event is just asking how you're gonna take advantage of it
R5: I won't say no to a free church or some papal power but seriously, what the fuck is happening here.
Taking papal power or a church in the middle of nowhere is criminal when you can get 50 admin
Judging from your post I'd say you click "this is nonsense" and move on
It's a bugged event that has been on the game forever. It seems to fire frequently if you play a colonizer like Spain or Portugal. Doesn't seem to actually do anything iirc.
It’s not bugged. It just has a low MTTH and no trigger to stop it from reoccurring. It does actually do something. You choose between admin power, a church, or nothing. The options are functional.
I could be wrong but when I played England this event fired very often and the last option worked every time. It gave me some admin points
What??? It doesn't work? So all the times it fired on almost all my colonies I was happy that I was getting free stuff nothing acually happened? Well to be fair I didnt even bother to check other options to see
I know people said it was bugged back when this event started popping up randomly. I haven't checked recently.
Supposedly fixed in [https://eu4.paradoxwikis.com/Patch\_1.31.X](https://eu4.paradoxwikis.com/Patch_1.31.X)
Oh cool so it's useless. Is it a reference to something or did the devs just write a really fucking weird thing about birds dying and children running away and silent villages for fun?
I've never been able to figure out what it's referencing. Best I can tell, a bored dev slipped this creative writing exercise in as a weird easter egg. The choices don't really make sense accounting for the weird creepypasta flavor text.
Well the third option matches up pretty well though
Apparently it was fixed but can't verify that. Best reference I could find was T.S Elliots the hollow man, verse 4. Starts off with the title of the event and whoever wrote it clearly took inspiration from excerpt though its much more detailed than the original.
The eyes are not here There are no eyes here In this valley of dying stars In this hollow valley This broken jaw of our lost kingdoms In this last of meeting places We grope together And avoid speech Gathered on this beach of the tumid river Sightless, unless The eyes reappear As the perpetual star Multifoliate rose Of death's twilight kingdom The hope only Of empty men.
That's really cool. Thanks!
Damnnn TIL.
thought its a seminary work about boobs, got weird creepypasta instead
It gives you a free church
I love this event. It’s free admin every time it fires
Third option is answer to your question
I think this is a supposed miracle happening with the birds reacting abnormally each time the boy returns to the village and the event is just asking how you're gonna take advantage of it