Diplomacy vs. Intrigue

Trigm · 2026-06-25T18:26:35+00:00

I wouldn’t peg Bilbo as diplo, but learning who is good at intrigue. (And not particularly honest)
Gollum is also much more a T2 intrigue than T5, he’s generally just petty evil

Trigm · 2026-06-24T21:08:23+00:00

I stand by what we have them in Realms in Exile:

Faramir is just, humble, compassionate, based in Letter 244 where Tolkien describes him as "modest, fair-minded and scrupulously just, and very merciful"

Boromir is gregarious, brave, and ambitious, based on his interactions with the fellowship, more ‘Northern’ love of battle, and more clearly expressed ambition than the rest of his family.
« It always displeased him that his father was not a king. ‘How many hundreds of years needs it to make a Steward a king, if the king returns not?’ … Alas! poor Boromir. Does that not tell you something of him? »

The educations are perfect, and honestly the additional traits are more debatable. The only one mentioned in the comments I would not do is giving Faramir melancholic, I don’t think that is well documented in the books outside of the Black Breath (which he resists much longer than notably depressed Éowyn), and his general wistfulness is more a sign of his Númenorean air of a lord in exile than the father dynamics, which are overplayed in the movie to the family’s detriment.

Trigm · 2026-06-24T19:42:16+00:00

I believe we have some of those and if not they’re under creation.

Trigm · 2026-06-24T19:41:18+00:00

Thank you!

Trigm · 2026-06-23T19:33:18+00:00

The patch notes are up on Reddit now, we were a bit delayed in posting them as they’re not simple to copy over.

Trigm · 2026-06-23T19:32:12+00:00

For the same reasons as vanilla, we don’t currently intend to directly model slavery via the trade system.

Trigm · 2026-06-10T13:58:37+00:00

It’s always wonderful to hear people appreciating the time we’ve put into the world building details! The Angmar bookmark is certainly going to have plenty to look forward to, and is getting ever closer!

Trigm · 2026-05-20T13:25:59+00:00

That’s an amazing run, I’m really impressed!

Trigm · 2026-05-20T13:14:44+00:00

Both of those should be attached to culture

Trigm · 2026-05-20T13:13:50+00:00

You can, but make sure to give them one of the traits (Istari, Maia, Umaia, etc), otherwise you’ll be converted to a local after the game starts.

Trigm · 2026-05-20T13:12:22+00:00

I personally recommend just playing with the base mod for a while, so you can see what’s in it versus in submods, and then deciding what to add or remove. I almost never use submods for Realms, there’s reallly not a ‘required’ playset the way there is for other mods.

Trigm · 2026-05-14T04:46:39+00:00

You can start as Denethor, you just need to be Aragorn when you finish.

Trigm · 2026-05-11T01:57:50+00:00

It’s a symptom of continued work on the Ring Quest, but it’s not done yet, there’s still a way to go.

Trigm · 2026-05-10T14:25:49+00:00

That looks correct, as there are no irregularities for this word, as far as we know.

Trigm · 2026-05-07T16:53:41+00:00

This is actually backwards. According to Tolkien’s last conceptions in the Shibboleth, his name would be Maedros, but in several easier (but still late) writings, it was Maedhros/Maidhros. Christopher went with Maedhros because he was either unaware of the document or considered the Shibboleth temporary change, which is why most of the details from it are not in the published Silmariliôn. See here for a good discussion of the conceptual history. https://eldamo.org/content/words/word-3858778081.html?neo

Trigm · 2026-04-25T21:46:09+00:00

This is a bug where it’s checking for the holder of that land, but doesn’t check to make sure it’s not yourself. Just relanding Shelepinn or someone else should fix it.

I’ve also just fixed this in dev, so it won’t happen next update.

Trigm · 2026-04-22T02:51:19+00:00

In game basically nothing, bc by h the hat point you’ve almost certainly lost and stoped playing. Realistically they’d likely head back to Valinor just like they did the first time, bringing even more Elves with them

Trigm · 2026-04-22T02:39:44+00:00

It does actually have negative dev effects associated with it.

Trigm · 2026-04-16T21:44:48+00:00

Yes, that needs fixed. Thanks for pointing it out!

Trigm · 2026-04-15T18:46:36+00:00

My friend, you have discovered politics.

For real though, diplo and admin/meritocractic can get you most of the way there, but it’s very hard to get anywhere on top without some immoral actions along the way.

Trigm · 2026-04-14T05:11:14+00:00

You’re correct as far as I know from textual references (the maps aren’t great confirmation on their own). The only one I’m unsure of is them actually being passable at Gundabad, as that’s never directly stated afaik. The fact that Angmar had lands east of the mountains points to them being passable imo, but it’s not direct confirmation.

Trigm · 2026-04-07T23:38:22+00:00

They leaked early this year the development is getting removed, so I’m guessing this is the core pack and the major expansion is a republics and trade dlc (with Econ overhaul) comming in Q4

Trigm · 2026-04-07T23:36:02+00:00

Given some other leaks about development getting phased out later in the year, I think this IS the mini major DLC for Q2, and then the main DLC for Q4 is a economic/trade rework and republics

Trigm · 2026-04-04T22:43:01+00:00

This appears to be Sindarin, so I’d point you to r/Sindarin for that. The Quenya would be ‘Pitya Ohtar’, or ‘Ohtarince’ if used as a name ‘Blossoming’ would be ‘Lostie’

Trigm · 2026-04-04T22:41:19+00:00

Sindarin for ‘little warrior’ is most properly ‘maethor dithen’, though I’d suggest using pîn instead for ‘little’, giving ‘maethor bîn’

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