[Gandalf Parker]

For some of these it points to CoE3 being more event-oriented than Dom3 was. What global rituals did in Dom3 as far as changing the whole game for some nations at the harm of others, CoE3 does with events and some rituals.

The Troll Kinds Mum is a major factor. She shows up as a game event. First she suddenly sends gold to help her son. Then later a message says that she is unhappy with how he is doing things so she shows up to "take charge". Others have such events also. The Pale Ones Oracle appearing for instance. Both give their nations new resource needs and new abilities. Mum Troll can cast a ritual causing forests to become Troll Forests where powerful fungus can sprout up and increase, and carrion creatures can appear to wander away attacking everything.

There are also events such as the breach of the Realm of Death which causes disposessed spirits to appear in numbers dependent on the amount of death has been there (places you fought big battles to get suddenly cause another large battle to keep it). Or the Fungus Summer which increases the resource income of some such as Witches and can cause giant fungus to appear in forests or swamps.

Those are just some of the surprises that the game throws at you. AND of course the scenario commands can use timers or triggers to get more events written into downloadble scenarios that I am hoping people here will get into making.