Demanding Pretender.

[HoneyBadger]

Here's an idea I'm borrowing from Dwarf Fortress, that came to me while I was reading the old Yarnspinners 2 thread: Suppose there was a way, atleast in SP if not in MP, for your Pretender to make demands of your nation? A given Pretender might demand that you sacrifice a quantity of gems/bloodslaves, forge or sacrifice a magic item, research to a certain level in a particular school of magic, build or destroy a castle, temple, lab, or conquer a random province.

If you do, all is well, and you might even get an award-maybe your Pretender even grows more powerful-but until you do what the God wants you to, some bad thing or things happen. Your Dominion might shrink, your priests might get old more quickly, your Pretender might even become insane.

Maybe there would only be one demand per game, or maybe one per Pretender Title (tieing this to Titles would be fun), but it would give Pretenders a load of character.

It might be too much of a headache in most MP games, but even in an SP game, having a bizarre goal here and there, could make all the difference, in keeping interest up.