Not everyone gets a carefree childhood of toys and games. Some children have the weight of duty on their shoulders, andface years of careful schooling and serious training, with a constant awareness of the responsibilities that await themin adulthood. Child rulers and child guardians take center stage in a modern strategy classic.

Crusaders Kings III: Wards & Wardens is a new event pack for Paradox Interactive’s award-winning medieval history gameof deep strategy and immersive role-playing. Its theme, chosen by a vote of the Crusader Kings community, is the specialchallenge of rearing young princes and nobles in a world where eternal glory is a battle away, and danger lurks in everyshadow.

Key features

• Learning Skills and Building Character - Many new education events add greater depth to the training of the young people of court. Educating the children of thecourt is now more interactive for both formal tutoring and the ever important life lessons. Shape not just theabilities, but the personality of your young charges, steering them to more acceptable or desirable traits for theimportant role they will play in the future. And education doesn’t have to stop once the tutelage has ended. Adult characters may now continue their education,attending university and improving their understanding of the world.
• The Potential for Power - You can never neglect the role of royal and noble children as political figures. Even the very youngest children can beguided through life by many people at court - councillors, knights and even Wet Nurses, a new and important position,can prove crucial in a royal child’s development. Child rulers are especially sensitive to influence and persuasion, and must be on guard against unscrupulous regents whomight undermine the young prince. Can you prove your worth through a childhood full of danger?
• Hostages - Noble children may play a vital diplomatic and strategic role as hostages in foreign courts, adding a new element ofstrategy to hosting young people at your court. As they act as guarantees of loyalty or peace from another court, youcan weaken the resistance of hostile courts by raising their children to be loyal allies. They may even be torn bydivided loyalties - on one side what is owed to duty, and on the other, what is owed by gratitude. The Crusader Kings III: Wards & Wardens event pack will fill your court with the laughter (or tears) of children as youwrite a new history of the Middle Ages.