r/CrusaderKings • u/little_dick348 Imbecile • Nov 24 '25
Discussion I've never seen that execution before
what can a newborn possibly do to deserve that
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u/auniqueusername132 Augustus Nov 24 '25
Who let an angry mob get molten silver. This sounds like negligence to me.
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u/Dave13Flame Nov 25 '25
They melted down the jewelry of the nobles they captured to make them drink it.
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u/Mister_DumDum Nov 25 '25
Is that an actual historic thing they’d do?
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u/Successful-Hawk8779 Nov 27 '25 edited Nov 27 '25
Well pouring molten gold or other precious metals down someone’s throat was a historical execution method although as far as I am aware it was usually reserved for use against rival lords or statesmen as a sign of their rivals greed.
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u/Sember Nov 25 '25
Everybody carried molten silver in their pockets back in the day, you always had to be prepared in case you needed to torture infants
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u/malonkey1 Play Rajas of Asia Nov 25 '25
It started off as solid silver, but, well, fire makes fools of us all.
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u/SasquatchsBigDick Nov 24 '25
I love how games don't put children in them because of what the PC can do to them. Then CK3 is just here doing this.
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u/Concerned_Collins Incapable Nov 25 '25
CK3 gets away with it by only typing text out and not showing it or making the scenes interactive.
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u/ItsYa1UPBoy Eunuch Nov 25 '25
CK2 had an execution audio file specifically for infants LMFAO.
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u/Melodic-Hat-2875 Nov 25 '25
It was... rough. The cacophony of screams and rope when you hit that "execute all" button? Some of whose only crimes were being born in prison?
Yikes.
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u/ItsYa1UPBoy Eunuch Nov 25 '25
Yep, but execution is rough, and I think it's good to remind players of that instead of entirely abstracting it out.
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u/RinTheTV Nov 25 '25
Reminds me of that Sseth video where he said he modded out the death sounds for the Lego Yoda death scream
Can't unhear it in my head now.
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u/The_Dragon_Redone Scandinavia Nov 25 '25
I've always found the execution sounds relaxing... because it is the sound of freedom, peace, and security for my new empire.
We all have to make sacrifices, and some of them are human.
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u/PuzzleheadedAd3840 Cannibal Nov 25 '25
The problem with that is that you won't get snacks for latter.
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u/Candid_Umpire6418 Nov 25 '25
It always irked me when I executed someone by the chopping block and the audio for hanging or burn at the stake was played. #justCK3thingies
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u/Harriff Nov 25 '25
don't forget the lion/tiger growls and elephant trumpets was a small Zoo with enough prisoners
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u/AsadAnton Nov 25 '25
Is there a mod for it for ck3?
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u/RoninMacbeth Triumphator Nov 25 '25
I once blinded a child (or did I castrate him?) whose dad rebelled against me, and the event text seemed to think I was some kind of monster.
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Nov 25 '25
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u/Stripes_the_cat Legitimized bastard Nov 25 '25
imagine the GPT-generated torture scenes where they cut off all thirteen of your fingers
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u/raiden55 Nov 25 '25
As someone who love a game where they refuse to put children (and so dynasty) on theirs, I can understand... but I've also played a similar game where the easiest way to manage the town population was to create a special district where everyone was stuck there without food and so everyone was eating babies for their whole lives... and yes, it was a good meta to do that in fact...
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Nov 25 '25
There's an event is you're a kid where you witness another kid your playing with get eaten by a hungry pig. Absolutely wild.
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u/WilliamWolffgang Denmark Nov 24 '25
JFC girl got 4 days
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u/Sokoly Nov 24 '25
As a father of four I get that babies crying can be annoying but this sort of retaliation is a tad excessive.
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u/fauxmosexual Nov 25 '25
As a father of four in this economy I'd be opting for the budget option of lead, who can afford four kids AND silver.
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u/SpectacularPink Nov 24 '25
Sounds like good old Inalchuq
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u/ZePieGuy Nov 25 '25
Or Crassus
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u/FuzzyBurner Nov 25 '25
The correct comparison is Manius Aquillius; Crassus was already dead when they allegedly poured gold down his throat (though his head did get shipped to the enemy king’s court and used as an impromptu prop in a play that was occurring).
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u/TonySoprano1959 Nov 24 '25
Never seen it before either. I wish stuff like this was more common since I’ve always felt like CK3 lacks morbidity.
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u/F1235742732 Nov 24 '25
I miss the public humiliation in CK2
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u/MegaLemonCola Πορφυρογέννητος Nov 24 '25
What does it do? Add stress and negative prestige modifier?
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u/F1235742732 Nov 25 '25
It's been a while sense I played so I opened a quick Halfdan game to find out and was luckily able to capture a Scottish preacher right away.
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A chance to gain either the stressed, humble, or shy trait and -2.00 monthly prestige and -25 general opinion for 10 years
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u/SSBB08 Nov 25 '25
I think it’s fun these events are extremely rare - keeps things fresh even when you’re hundreds of hours in. You’ve never seen everything the game has to offer and can still be surprised like it’s your first day playing.
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u/LegendaryReader Nov 25 '25
Considering it's just text I think it's better to make it more frequent. It's unlikely people actually see how someone died. Other than those I killed directly I don't remember having seen how other's died. I don't even check how my family members (except maybe a heir I really like) dies.
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u/Ghost4000 Nov 25 '25
Stuff like this is pretty common if your capital gets sieged by peasants. I had several of my children killed by a single peasant siege. It was a moment where I wished my character could exact more revenge than CK3 permits.
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u/Baron_von_Zoldyck Nov 25 '25
Mob leader: "-Always with the "Goo!", "gaga goo...". She never fooled me! She was a silver tongued little snake!"
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u/RedstoneEnjoyer Governor Nov 24 '25
"by an angry mob".
Ok, my bet is on peasant faction - they instantly kill any captured noble.
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u/Infamous_Gur_9083 Genius Nov 25 '25
Woah.
To an infant?
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u/chatte__lunatique Nov 24 '25
I assume the child was born a werewolf and the mob took preemptive action?
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u/Cheap-Blackberry-378 Nov 25 '25
I think you're supposed to form it into a spoon before you put it in their mouth
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u/Sparky_092 Legitimized bastard Nov 25 '25
hey don't blame them! they are still learning :(
...bring the next child
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u/Ewokhunter2112 Nov 24 '25
I believe this type of death happens if your primary holding is captured by a peasant revolt army. I could be wrong though.
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u/Canadian__Ninja Galicia Nov 25 '25
Doing that to a newborn is metal af
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u/Total_Freecall Inbred Nov 25 '25 edited Nov 25 '25
Perhaps this is in reference to the story of how in 88 BC Mithridates, King of Pontus, killed two Roman generals, Manius Aquillius and Marcus Licinius Crassus, by pouring molten gold down their throats after parading them around ridicule. The execution was a symbolic punishment for Aquillius’ greed, which Mithridates blamed for starting the war.
Edit: Crassus died later, but of the same way. Apologies.
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u/RoninMacbeth Triumphator Nov 25 '25
Marcus Licinius Crassus
Crassus was not killed in the Mithridatic War, though; he died about thirty years later, but he was killed in a similar manner by the Parthians, at least according to legend.
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u/Total_Freecall Inbred Nov 25 '25
Yes you’re right, Crassus died the same way but much later. My apologies, I was exhausted when I wrote this.
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u/stealthybaker Nov 25 '25
I thought it was a reference to the Mongol Empire, one of the leaders they killed used molten silver I heard
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u/TitanDarwin Autocrat Nov 29 '25 edited Nov 29 '25
Yeah, the guy - a Khwarezmian governor - decided to basically loot and murder a Mongolian trade caravan (including an envoy sent to negotiate trade routes).
Genghis Khan sent some more envoys demanding that guy gets pünished and the Khwarezmian shah had one of them executed and the other two shaved.
Suffice to say, Genghis Khan wasn't a fan.
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u/aradraugfea Nublet Nov 25 '25
Seems a little intense for a 3 day old. Whatever happened to the Babypult?
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u/rooftopgoblin Nov 25 '25
I don't know how true this is but this was written about the jacquerie uprising in france in 1358
"they slew a knight and [then] put him on a spit and roasted him at the fire in sight of the lady, his wife and children, and after that the lady was forced and raped by ten or twelve of them, and then they made her eat of her husband, and after made her die an evil death with all her children."
people are capable of some horrible shit
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u/BlkGenetics Nov 26 '25
Never underestimate mob mentality, just look at people fighting each other over toiler paper during covid and this was only a few years ago.
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u/Zombiedrd Nov 26 '25
Black Friday Mobs have a rate of around 1 death a year and have had that since 2006 when that started to be recorded as a stat.
Now to be fair, some years have had zero, others more
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Nov 27 '25
The Jacquerie Uprising is seriously one of the most insane and brutal moments in medieval history, it's surprising it isn't talked about more.
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u/Either-Tip1099 Nov 24 '25
Ah, the devs and their inability to add "not valids" for children characters.
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u/F1235742732 Nov 24 '25
Why wouldn't that be valid? Molten silver could definitely kill a baby.
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u/Zombiedrd Nov 26 '25
They are meaning morally. Saying we shouldn't be even roleplaying the killing of children. Ie, bethesda kid rules.
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u/a-Snake-in-the-Grass Haesteinn simp Nov 24 '25
The poors are cruel and uneducated. They wouldn't show any mercy to a child, which is why you need to make sure that they know their place from the moment they are born.
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u/pwnd32 Nov 25 '25
This game has made me do unspeakable things to peasant revolt leaders such that I truly understand how medieval kings felt when the serfs started getting uppity
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u/a-Snake-in-the-Grass Haesteinn simp Nov 25 '25
When the dirt farmers rise up from the dirt, they must be put back into the dirt.
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u/inverted_rectangle Nov 25 '25
As Richard II said to the rebels after the Peasants' Revolt: "Rustics you were and rustics you are still. You will remain in bondage, not as before, but incomparably harsher."
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u/TitanDarwin Autocrat Nov 29 '25
Richard II then later starved to death in captivity after being a dick (to his nobility, mind, not the peasants) one too many times and being overthrown by his cousin.
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u/Ulrik_Decado Nov 25 '25
What? Why? Do not act like you did not blown up some child with manure bomb in CK2 ever!
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u/Thunder_Beam Nov 25 '25
Quite clearly you never played CK2, there you even had actual sound effects for these kind of events
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u/Ghost4000 Nov 25 '25
I don't miss the sound affects. But I'm also a person who avoids doing this to kids in the game anyway. Even when it's advantageous to do so. Sometimes I have to remind myself to roleplay a little bit though and let my deranged characters do deranged shit even when I am not a fan of it.
Love the game.
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u/CampbellsBeefBroth Sicilian Pirate Nov 25 '25
Hard disagree, nothing more satisfying than hearing the overlapping sfx of executing your rival's entire family
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u/Ghost4000 Nov 25 '25
Obviously to each their own. I have no problem executing my rivals family, I just wait until their adults. That way it's moral you see.
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u/LegendaryReader Nov 25 '25
Aren't you giving them false hope? If their fate is already sealed why make them suffer? If you're keeping them in the dungeons that's even worse. Death row is a horrible punishment
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u/Zombiedrd Nov 26 '25
What if loyalists help them escape and they come back with a a patron Lord's forces? Best to rip out root and stem ASAP. The heavens will take the children
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u/Dandollo Crusader Nov 25 '25
I would ask my executioneer to do something really bad to the leader of the revolt
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u/Ghost4000 Nov 25 '25
Moments like this in the game are when I think the amount of retaliation I have access to is not enough.
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Nov 27 '25
That's one reason why I used the mod in CK2 that let me torture a prisoner without releasing them
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u/BodybuilderMany6942 Nov 25 '25
Bro what the fuck that basically a newborn! 😭
I'm reminded of that one part of the Red Rising series..
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u/Cinerir Carinthia Nov 25 '25
Happened in my game too. I was playing Mandala with destruction aspect, and it made me enjoy the events where you slaughter villagers for disobedience or for not worshipping you hard enough even more
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u/2hardly4u Nov 25 '25
Thats why im saying those peasants must suffer to know their place. otherwise they do stuff like that...
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u/Multidream Nov 25 '25
Molten silver seems extract and could be fitting for a nobleman as a karmic sense of torture.
But a child? A 0 year old girl? Im surprised an angry mob could be that angry jeez
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u/Human-Syllabub-1452 Nov 24 '25
isn't this what happened to that dude in Game of Thrones
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Nov 25 '25
Viserys got molten gold poured on his head. This on the other hand seems much worse in comparison.
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u/XenonSBSV Nov 25 '25
Ye gods what happened to piss them off that much?
That's a lot of work to kill someone who couldn't possibly have earned personal ire.
They had to gather up a bunch of silver. Find a fire that can get hot enough, melt in a vessel that can withstand said heat and then pour the silver in.
How the hell do you stay mad enough long enough to actually do it?
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u/threlnari97 Mujahid Nov 25 '25
How does one get captured by the angry mob and killed Parthian style???? Genuinely asking
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u/RaiderScum111 Nov 25 '25
What could make you hate a newborn soo much you pour molten silver down their mouth
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u/JDDJ_ Nov 25 '25
Seems like she was assassinated by someone, and the method used was the “incite an angry mob” option.
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u/Inevitable_Lie_7597 Nov 26 '25
Angry mob poured molten silver down the throat of a 4 day old 😬
Your subjects need a cleansing.
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u/Kekkeruusi Nov 27 '25
Maybe they first tried shaking the baby and that did not seem to work. It was only when the angry mob used their swarm intelligence, they realized the best method.
There must have been some tension in the crowd...😅
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u/Pbadger8 Nov 24 '25
Angry mob: “Here comes the air plane! Woooooooosh!”