The Rising Eagle

2022-02-22

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"The Rising Eagle was a total conversion mod in development for Crusader Kings 3 set between the beginning of the Hellenic ages to the near beginning of the Roman Empire. A community continuation, improvement and expansion of Paradox's Imperator Rome in CK3."

Map Terrain

This is the most recent stable development build of the mod. is pretty much what you would have seen in the Modcon trailer. Most of the Eastern nations are present here.

Last update to the map

Characters

User Interface

This was an ambitious project. It was probably the first (and hopefully, probably the last) total conversion mod to change the UI in such a radical way. When creating a CK3 mod, it's important not to be too ambitious. It's a mistake I wish I had realised sooner. But this was really the most fun I ever had programming user interfaces.

I worked on the UI almost every time I worked on this project. There were many variations of the UI during development. Below are some examples, ranked from my perspective, from the most polished to the least.

TRE in media

The Rising Eagle has amassed over 87,000 views on YouTube, almost 1,000 Discord members by the end of 2023 and also 500 followers on Twitter/X (and being followed by the Executive Chairman of Paradox Interactive, Fredrik Wester.) It has been featured on the 2nd annual community event "Modcon 2022" in 2022