Grand Dutchy of Gottfried

Maps

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  Hookerhill Keep

• 

  Village Fal

Founding Date

884 BE

Type

Geopolitical, Country

Capital

Gottfried

Alternative Names

Gottfried

Demonym

Terre

Leader Title

Duke

Family Leader

Geoffry IV

Government System

Monarchy, Absolute

Power Structure

Feudal state

Economic System

Market economy

Official State Religion

Prime Pantheon

Subsidiary Organizations

• The Blue Men

Location

Atheau Steppe

Official Languages

• Common

Related Ranks & Titles

• Brown General

Controlled Territories

• Castle Geoff
• Fal Hills
• Frontier Trading Post
• Gottfried
• Hookerhill Keep
• Lort Hills
• Lortmill Mountains
• Shadden Spire
• Village Fal

Related Species

• Human

Ruling Structure

- Grand Duke Geoffry IV

Grand Dutchess Bianka

Court Wizard Ghislain

Curia Regis (advisor, RHM): Phillip Batteux

Military Commander: Ashton North

Science Advisor: Thomas Fulton

Trade Advisor: Spencer Darington

Foreign Advisor: Ethel Sutherland

Foreign Relations

Resources

Bonus Resources

Bonus resources are the most frequently found type of resource, and they are the most versatile in a strategic sense. They provide food, production, or money, benefiting a nearby city, and they can be improved for even greater benefits.

• Copper (+2 money) (mining) (mine)
• Cattle (+1 food) (animal husbandry) (pasture)
• Deer (+1 production) (animal husbandry) (camp)
• Sheep (+1 food) (animal husbandry) (pasture)
• Stone (+1 production) (masonry) (quarry)
• Wheat (+1 food) (pottery) (farm)

Luxury Resources

Luxury resources are commodities highly prized by Citizens, and their availability helps increase Citizen happiness by granting Amenities. Most Luxury Resources are provided by the land, and you can access them by improving a hex/tile that contains the resource or even founding a settlement on it (provided you've access to the technology necessary to improve it). Some, however, are exclusive products of specific city-states and may only be obtained via them. Yet others are the lifework of Great Merchants, who you will need to attract to your settlements in order to access the resource.

• Amber (+1 culture)
• Citrus (+2 food) (plantation)
• Coffee (+1 culture) (plantation)
• Cotton (+3 money) (plantation)
• furs (+1 food, +1 money) (camp)
• Gems (+2 money) (mine)
• Honey (+2 food) (camp)
• Jade (+1 culture)
• Silver (+3 money) (mining) (mine)
• Truffles (+3 money) (camp)

Strategic Resources

Strategic resources re those that are important from a military standpoint. They also provide some bonuses, but more importantly, when the relevant hex/tile improvement is built on them, they provide access to vital materials which allow you to build important military units.

• Horses (+1 production, +1 food) (pasture)
• Iron (+1 Science) (mine)
• Lumber (+1 production) (lumber mill)
• Coal (+2 production) (mine)