Your character puts the pictures on a left pile or a right pile, and ruminates on each of them. It seems really odd for a moment, until you realise it’s a parody of Tinder, and have ye a lyttle mirthe. If your character’s life has led them to develop a keen interest in ye olde fuckynge (I think it’s the temptation lifestyle focus, specifically), they will occasionally be hit with an event in which - bizarrely - they will decide to dust off a load of paintings of regional nobles, and peruse them in search of someone new to seduce. There’s a lot of events in Crusader Kings 3 that provide this effect, but my favourite to date has to be the event players will no doubt already know as “medieval tinder”. "That’s bathos, that is: the chaser of the ridiculous to the pint of the sublime".
That’s bathos, that is - the chaser of the ridiculous to the pint of the sublime - and Paradox make a masterful job of it. Whatever form it comes in, it’s always just enough to let a little air out of the grimdark balloon, without ever deflating it entirely and making the whole game seem like a clown show. by reading them their Vogon-standard poetry. It might even be the moment where your character decides to torture somebody. It might be the moment where you have war declared on you by a king who’s billy-bollocks naked, because of his peculiar splinter branch of Orthodox Christianity. It might just be a wry little bit of phrasing in the acknowledgement text for some ghastly assassination. But whenever all the fratricide, heretic-burning, torture and disease is threatening to leave a bad taste in your mouth, the game will turn and give you a cheeky little wink. It feels, for the most part, like a dead serious game. Crusader Kings 3, for my money, achieves an even more deft balance than its predecessor.
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