• The Jester
• The Minstrel
• The Dog Seller (along with a dog you can tame)
• Priest of Dahomat
• Nectar Merchant
• Witch
• Young Lord Seeking Refuge
• Marauder Knight
• Bandit with a Mysterious Prisoner

Full List:

New

• New mechanic: "Unique Visitors"
• New AI city action: "Bribe Heir"
• Added option to save the last used army template
• Ability to expel a vassal from your kingdom or an ally from your alliance
• Instead of an immediate vassal rebellion, a quest will appear warning that the vassal is about to revolt

Ability to request military assistance from vassals and allies:

• Ability to add allied and vassal units to your army
• Alliance leader can request troops for attack support
• Suzerain can demand troops for an offensive
• AI armies used by the player in an attack will be exempt from vassal tax for 3 days
• Player is exempt from vassal tax if they assist their suzerain with troops
• Battle rewards (money, resources, slaves) will be split equally between the player’s and allies’ armies
• Relations with allied army leaders worsen if their soldiers and lords incur losses
• Ability to send only allied armies into battle without player’s units
• Faction flag displayed instead of shield icon for reinforcement armies

Balance

• Caravaner will bring 0 - 10 paper instead of 5 - 15
• Softened various negative social thoughts
• Technology "Correct Cutting" now gives a x1.5 bonus instead of x2
• Vassal rebellion chance for the player reduced by 50%
• Cooldown for new prophecies increased from 5 to 9 days
• The action "Politely Request Tribute" no longer damages relations with all neighbors
• Alliance invitation now costs 300 coins, with AI paying the player 300 coins if they initiate the invitation
• New "Alliance Leader" thought for members of an alliance regarding the alliance leader
• Banned lord in AI faction after successful poisoning attempt - banned lords cannot be sent to that faction’s city
• In the "Conflict between Neighbors" quest, ignoring it no longer worsens relations with both parties. Quest appearance chance reduced to 10%

Global map trading:

• Global map trading requires 5 paper to sign an agreement
• No Holy Family tax within alliance trading agreements
• When sending an envoy to sign a trade agreement, the skills of the lord most skilled in trade, not the king, are used
• Trade agreements remain intact after a king’s death
• Global map trading balance adjusted

Improvements:

• Help and reinforcement system reworked at the code level - reinforcements should no longer get stuck in cities. Once the threat is gone, they will return home immediately.
• "Mild Fatigue" thought will no longer show in the "Frequent Negative Thoughts" summary hints
• Clicking on a knight in the army menu opens the army creation menu
• When a city is destroyed by the Horde, any bandit camp in that province will also be destroyed, and its hostages killed
• Pathfinding on the global map is now improved
• Mechanism for determining actor positions on the map reworked; units should no longer get stuck when interrupted near a body of water
• Player’s immobilized soldiers will be carried and tended to even at night
• Games resumed after tutorial completion will now include the Unholy Horde crisis
• After the player’s lord dies, their rings will be passed to their spouse or eldest child in the same faction if both are on the local map
• If close to completing knowledge, the lord will try to stay and finish learning it
• Added a marker in the production menu if all buildings producing resources have no workers
• Added a window with the result of relation recovery with AI through a special action [NRL-260]
• Notification on the right that a lord who has less than 10 years left to old age knows > 50% of all unique knowledge
• Training field fight sounds are now slightly quieter
• "Wise Conversation" will no longer auto-complete after the task ends
• Updated list of volunteer translators.
• Optimization

• Screenshots will now correctly be created when pressing F12 and added to Steam
• Guards will no longer equip ranged weapons
• Burning a bishop in their home will count towards the achievement for killing a bishop
• Poisoning a bishop will count towards the achievement for killing a bishop
• Fixed captions for inspection icons on the top lord panel
• Fixed a bug causing army rendering issues in the city tab when scrolling was offset
• Fixed a bug where clicking on a soldier's portrait in the army creation menu would close the global map
• Fixed a bug that caused player soldiers to be expelled from the barracks after manual combat on the global map
• Player lords will no longer be captured with a 50% chance after retreating from battle on the global map
• The "Offer of Help" quest from the AI will no longer appear if the AI is under threat of attack
• Fixed the "Forced Marriage" thought mechanism between newlyweds - it will attach if the relationship with the partner is below +50
• Fixed a bug where victory over the Unholy Horde in a city attack could fail to register, and relations with the Holy Family did not change
• Fixed a bug where the Unholy Horde would disband after the commander’s death in battle
• Fixed a bug that prevented the army assignment menu from opening if the commanding lord of the army died or fled
• Fixed a bug that prevented assigning an army to a quest on the same tile as the army while on the march
• Fixed a bug where the number of slaves for sale in the bandit camp quest would randomize after each game load
• Fixed a bug where the Inquisition army would approach the player at full speed after a save-load instead of 50% speed
• Fixed a bug where the tribute extortion quest against the player could fail to end in an attack even if the aggressor declared it
• Fixed a bug that prevented the "Compel Neutrality" quest from ending in an attack after saving and loading the game
• Fixed a bug where an army heading toward the player was not considered grounds for allies to stay in the player’s city, causing them to leave
• Fixed a bug that prevented the player from leaving an alliance as a regular member if the alliance was set up at game creation
• Fixed a bug where the game couldn’t load if the "Conflict between Neighbors" quest existed and one participant lost their king and all adult lords
• Fixed a bug where the AI would not initiate an attack on another AI if it was three times stronger than its target
• Fixed incorrect notification of a neighboring vassal state’s dissolution
• Fixed a bug where the Knowledge Transfer tooltip would display multiple times
• Fixed a bug where bandits, Unholy Horde warriors, wolves, etc., were not recognized as enemies
• Fixed a bug where AI units wouldn’t attack enemy archer towers
• Right-clicking the enemy tower flag will now initiate an attack on it, as if clicking directly on the tower
• Fixed a bug where holding down the left mouse button during a transition to a highlighted object caused the camera to shake
• Losses and retreats on the global map will no longer count as victories for Kaiden culture
• Fixed a bug where player archers on towers could attack allied units if relations with them were poor
• Characters who become senile due to old age will no longer have desires, and current desires will be removed
• Fixed a bug where characters going to drink nectar would get intoxicated effects even if there wasn’t enough nectar
• Blind lords can no longer be trained in military skills. After loading, blind lords will appear with closed eyes as intended
• Fixed the "Poison" action on the global map. Now, upon a successful poisoning, the target dies immediately, and the player receives accurate notifications of the poison’s success or failure
• AI will not spawn aggressive quests against the player (tribute demand, vassalage, neutrality) if the AI is currently under attack
• Fixed a bug where completing the child education task could cause the game to freeze if the mentor had nothing left to teach
• During an heir or vassal rebellion within the AI, it will cancel the current attack intent and refrain from initiating new ones
• Fixed the trigger for the advice notification regarding unassigned clerics