the only place i know of where you can affect this is in the early- high- late.txt files under the 'startleader::' area. there is a set of numbers after each faction's leader setting, about 8 numbers or so. i've tweaked a few of these just to see what would happen, but so far, all i've managed to change that i can notice, is the leader's title, and only the part that is the roman numberal, like 'king conrad II'. i got an error message once telling me that it couldnt find any reference to that roman numeral for that king. when i changed the numbers back to the original setting then i no longer got that error message.

i was hoping one of the dev guys would post a list of what each number means there to de-mystify this, but so far no luck. there are other numbers like this, as well. the addheir:: one has some and there's a couple others, iirc, where there are only 2 numbers. in fact, i think it's the addheir:: that has the two numbers and i've really no clue to what they do. the addheir:: also allows for multiple entries of a given faction and i've no idea why this is either, maybe one affects males and the other females. dunno. a little help here, gil?

K.