Why?
Ever felt like NPC Lords and Ladies in this game are a bit... robotic? Like you execute one of their loved ones, next encounter they are all like "Mhm so what is it?" as if nothing happened. Or even legitimate kills, where you kill their family members in battle, and they don't even bother mentioning that as if they are cool with that? Or you bust your ass off to win a battle and no one gives a damn about that? So this mod aims to solve that problem.

What does it do?
This mod brings new lines to dialogues and also adds ambition mechanic for the NPCs. Let's focus on dialogues first. This mod introduces 467 new lines (yeah you read it right!) to Lord/Lady dialogues. All of these dialogues are totally situation-related. For example, from now on, if you executed anyone, all of their family members will remember this and will comment on that next time they see you. Their line will depend on parameters like if you are engaged in battlefield, if they started the conversation (i.e. they are attacking you), relation of the family member (son, daughter, grandchildren, wife, etc.) and relationship status during the moment of your execution (i.e. if you betrayed and killed someone who knew and liked you, etc.)


Features
Dialogues
As you can guess, all these cases require a huge amount of lines to be considered and properly created. I won't go over all of them but I believe I covered all the potential cases for maximum immersion.
These are the situations NPCs will pay attention and comment on:

• If you executed any of their family member.
• If any of your family member executed any of their family member
• If any of their family member has been killed in battle by you or against someone you know (like your clan members)
• If NPC ever fought against you before in battlefield. If yes, they will remember the outcome, they will remember when it was, where it was close to (approximately) and they will even remember if you were overpowered or not.
• If NPC has been taken as prisoner by you or someone you know before. Or if they ever defeated and took prisoner someone you knew or you before.
• If anyone NPC knows ever fought against you or not, they will remember the outcome, location, time and unit situation. This is larger than just family members though, they will know and hear about battles of their faction members too. If they are in immediate state of battle with you, they will also make comments based on their traits.
• If you ever lost a major battle. Major battle in this context is any battle that has more unit count than 250. If battle was against their own faction, their line will reflect that but if they heard other factions, they will also talk about it broadly. Like Battanian General will hear about your defeat against Aserai and might choose to mock you
• If you ever lost battle to bandits/looters before, NPCs might choose to make fun of you by remembering that if they have nothing else to say.
  

All the lines also come with very intricate parameters and variations that will make them sound more natural.
The system is set up in a way that you won't be able to hear the same sentences again from the same NPCs, because there is no point in saying the same thing over and over again. But it is likely to hear the same sentence from different NPCs because variations work based on a random value at runtime.
All the bullet points I listed above also come with a small possibility of NPCs commenting about the situation even if it's not directly related to their family. But it comes with a small chance, so that you don't get roasted by every single NPC when you lose a battle; instead, only a small subset of them will care about that.



NPC Ambitions
This is a small extra feature I wanted to add to make NPCs feel less robotic. NPC Lords now can gain or born with certain ambitions which will reflected their actions on Campaign Map.
Ambition types are:

• Vendetta: If the player or any NPC executes someone, their loved ones are likely to gain this ambition. NPCs with this ambition will try to chase and fight the executor on the campaign map. They will do this as their number one priority, meaning that if the player is at war with Sturgia and executed someone from a family, one or more family members can start riding their party (or even armies!) just to chase and kill the player. To make this more fair for the player, I'm not having NPCs target the player's location directly but rather using the same system you would use in the game to find someone—the Encyclopedia "last seen at" feature. The AI also uses this and tries to pinpoint your location, and once you are in their visual cone, they target and attack you. This can only happen if you are already at war, of course. But they will never forget the ambition until they get their hands on you at least once.
• Rival: If any NPC is beaten by someone (NPC or player) five times in a row, this will cause them to think of that person as a Rival or Feared. The Rival ambition will grant NPC parties the drive to target the player when they see them nearby. This means that even if you are overpowered or they have another objective, they won't care and will face you as a rival.
• Fear: Similar to Rival, this will get triggered based on battle wins in a row. In both cases, there is a 50% chance to be assigned either. Meaning that some NPCs might have the Rival ambition while others have the Fear ambition. Those with the Fear of ambition will do the opposite of Rival. They will run away like hell. Even if they are extremely overpowered, they will do everything not to face their feared rival.
• Throne: This ambition is a bit slow and tricky one. The NPC lord with this ambition will desire to become a ruler and prioritizes actions that increase their power and influence.
• Wealth: The lord with this ambition will prioritize accumulating wealth and minimizes expenses, such as maintaining smaller armies or buying supplies. They will also try to snatch cheap items from settlements they visit to sell afterwards - if they can.
• Fame: The lord with this ambition will seek fame. In time of peace, they will travel between tournament settlements to gain renown. They won't do that in battle/war times though, they will instead try to chase glory of battle in such times.
  

These ambitions are not assigned to every lord or lady, but rather they get assigned to them with a very low chance after the system checks it each week.
I also added a small cheat so that you can see all the existing "ambitions" of the NPCs in a list and their reasons.


I tested this mod for multiple game-years and tried multiple actions. I didn't notice any issues with performance or crashes. So I'm hoping that it will all fine for you too. Also want to note that mod doesn't use anything related to Harmony etc, so it should be pretty lightweight to play with.

I also translated each line to Russian, Turkish, and German. They are all AI translations, so they might not be great but believe me, it was a pain in the ass to translate all those lines because it's surpassing the limit for every non-commercial AI LLM out there. So I wrote my own AI Translator system for that alone. I hope it's not too horrible.


Frequently Asked Questions
- I'm getting "Cannot load ComplexCharacters.dll" error
It means you need to unblock your .dll files. Google it or use Novus launcher that can unblock them for you.
- Can I load this in mid-save?
Yes. Ambitions might take a few game days to set in place though.
- Can I remove this in mid-save?
Yes. Shouldn't have any effect.
- I found a bug and I have a report, how to get a resolution?
Explain what you were doing and how the bug arised. Create a bug report. Check if the bug report exists already.
- Can I play this with ABC mod?
No idea. Try and let us know in posts. Say "I tried with ABC with XYZ version and it works great."
- Can I ask if I can play with ABC mod?
As long as you don't ask it to me, I don't care. Here is a template for you to use: "Hey folks, can I play this with ABC with version XYZ? Anyone tried that?"