Italy focus tree

[Idhrendur]

I seem to remember suggesting somewhere that the old king's son should rise to power and either push Italy along the monarchical path or revolutionary path. The Pope making a return makes sense too.

[Idhrendur]

May as well post some suggestions for Italy based on some old posts (way back in 2017). I was thinking of the bastard son of King Giuseppe Lombardi making an appearance and using the instability of Italian politics to rise to power. I had two branches for how his rule proceeds. One is where he keeps the republic alive and forges it into the successor of the original Roman Republic, creating a revolution-like atmosphere to rile up the Italian people into reclaiming the old Roman lands. This would set it up as our revolutionary rival, one that disputes our claim as Rome's successor due to actually holding Rome. I would expect they would try to bring down various absolutist governments and go on a war spree like Revolutionary France. The second involves Giuseppe's son eventually having himself crowned King of Italy and attempting to solidify his rule over the peninsula. This path would work well with any events surrounding the Pope or Burgundy, since Giuseppe's son could get the Pope to crown him as a pretext for a Italy-Burgundy alliance, and I see Idhrendur suggested back then that they might form the HRE together, which could work if the Burgundian Pope crowns him Holy Roman Emperor. I imagine expansion under this path to be more methodical and focused on the relationship between Italy and Burgundy. For all I know some of these ideas are already incorporated into the mod. I haven't looked at it in-game yet.