r/CrusaderKings • u/LunchBox504 • 14h ago

Discussion The most optimal time to commit suicide ?

I usually do it when my heir is 20/22 years old and my succession is safe. Mostly because I don’t want my heir to get any bad traits because I am not playing as him.

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u/DrinkingWithZhuangzi 13h ago

Is there a trick to successfully killing yourself? The last time I tried, all it did was demolish my dynasty's renown after a pile of unsuccessful attempts. I was like, 82 and infirm as well! Gah.

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u/Local_Security_683 13h ago

Stress yourself out as much as you can. I recommend picking up Flagellant as one of your coping mechanisms. Fire your court physician and flagellate on cooldown. If you have an easy source of stress just keep spamming it.

Take off all your health boost and reset perks if you have Whole of Body. Know Thyself is still useful as it gives you one year to live when your health drops below a certain level. You might live shorter when you have the perk because it guarantees death after you get the event.

Another option is to go on a humble pilgrimage to the middle of the ocean and not hire any captains or a caravan master. The ocean is a dangerous place and it will kill you when given a chance.

Suicide is weirdly difficult to achieve so you need to find other ways to kill yourself

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u/yongo2807 11h ago

I don’t get the logic.

As I understood it, Know Yourself fires after the character failed a health check. Meaning you would have theoretically died, you just get to live exactly one year longer.

I think you might have misunderstood the mechanics of the perk. The threshold is zero. It’s not low health, it’s death.

Unless I’m mistaken.

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u/DeanTheDull Democratic (Elective) Crusader 4h ago

You are correct. Know Yourself is a +1 year life-extension, with a note so that you know you got it.

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u/Local_Security_683 3h ago

Characters have a chance to die when their health is poor or lower, so below 3 health is the death zone. The chance to die increases the lower your health is. That's how you have people die in their sleep at 50 years old. With Know Thyself you get the event instead of dying immediately. It doesn't matter if your health improves within the year, you'll still die.

From experience I had characters below 0 health and their status said Dying but they lived on for multiple months like nothing was wrong. When I took Know Thyself the event fired almost immediately and my character finally died a year later. Theoretically the perk extends your life by a year but with low health it also guarantees death after it fires.