History Characters / KnudKnytlingPrinceOfDenmark

* RunningGag: One personal to Niels I is the bombardment of diplomatic messages he receives. Or as Niels puts it: ''[[AcceptableTargets "The Irish strategy."]]''

-->''"In a story that has made fun [[LongList of]] [[DrivenToSuicide suicide]], [[BringMyBrownPants diarrhea]], [[BlackComedyRape rape, child molestation]], [[ParentalIncest incest]], [[ToThePain torture]], [[AcceptableTargets minorities, and retardation]], I think we've finally found our limit."''

-->''"Some ladies in the court think [[AccidentalInnuendo "marching down the Volga"]] is funny, and then [[ADateWithRosiePalms they touch their girl parts when they think I am not looking]]. [[ComicallyMissingThePoint It must hurt because]] [[TheImmodestOrgasm they keep making noises.]]''"

%%* CharacterDeath: [[spoiler: DeathBySex]]

%%* [[ManipulativeBastard Manipulative Bitch]]

* ShoutOut: To Creator/GilbertAndSullivan, Music/{{Queen}}, Music/{{Scorpions|Band}}, Music/DireStraits, {{Music/ABBA}} and more.

* FromBadToWorse: First, [[DemonicPossession he gets possessed by the ghost of Prince Knud Knytling (the first)]], [[AnAxeToGrind then he gets an axe in the head]], ''then'' [[EverythingsDeaderWithZombies he becomes a zombie]]; by the end of the game, [[spoiler: he gets wasted by a descendent of Knud I's first arch-enemy Przybyslaw.]]

* HistoricalDomainCharacter

** [[spoiler: Also because he dies two pages into the AAR.]][[/folder]]

* BastardBastard

* CharacterDeath: [[spoiler: DeathBySex]]
* TheConqueror

* ManipulativeBastard

* ReallyGetsAround

->''"My turn-ons include getting my hair done and [[RichInmoneyPoorInSense giving away my money to poor people.]]"''

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The quote above.

* {{Metrosexual}}: Shows shades of this.

* EvilChancellor/[[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen God Save Us from The King's Mother!]]
* [[ManipulativeBastard Manipulative Bitch]]
** ThemeNaming: See above.
* SanitySlippage: See BecomingTheMask above

* [[spoiler:VillainExitStageLeft: After her failed rebellion.]]
* WomanScorned

* TheCynic
* TheEeyore

-->''Rolf :"[[MyGodWhatHaveIDone What have I done?]]"

-->''[[spoiler:Valdemar]]: [[ShoutOut "Henceforth, you will be known as...]] [[StarWars Rolf Vader]]."

* TangledFamilyTree

* CharacterDeath: By old age.

* JerkAss

-> phargle: I officially hate each and every one of you.

* AccidentalInnuendo: Prone to this.

* CallBack: Seeing a King of Bohemia named Valdemar, Judith looks up her ancestor Valdemar Knytling. [[[[https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/knud-kn%C3%BDtling-prince-of-denmark-and-other-assorted-tales.235468/page-109#post-8702267 Her reaction is appropriate.]]

!!Other Characters
Courtiers, Dukes, Kings, Emperors - These characters are encountered by Knud's bloodline as they progress throughout the game. May or may not be of the Knytling dynasty.

[[folder: [[spoiler: Adolf Knytling]]]]
* LongList: His titles.
[[/folder]]

* ShoutOut: To Creator/GilbertAndSullivan, Music/{{Queen}}, {{Music/Scorpions}}, Music/DireStraits, {{Music/ABBA}} and more.

->''[[AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent "Because he is not me."]]''

* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: As opposed to being from the bloodline of Knud Knytling, she is the widow of Duke Knud II.

* AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent: Following the relatively straightforward stories of the previous Knytling rulers, we get to one who does his ''in song.''

* AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent

* AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent: George's chapters borrow formats from other AARs in the Paradox forums.

* {{Diary}}: Her later chapters take his form after one too many innuendos uttered in court. It soon descends into FanFic-tier writing:
--> "There was once an evil troll man-thing named... [[SdrawkcabName Jezalb]]. Jezalb was a horrible beast who was very jealous of beautiful princesses and always tried to make them miserable. That was the only way he could be happy. So he found a wonderful princess and tried to make her miserable, even though she was quite successful at everything she did and really had no reason to be miserable at all. Everybody loved her except for Blazej-- I mean Jezalb-- except for Jezalb. Even when the wonderful princess did something amazing, for instance become Queen of Denmark, not that there is a Denmark in this story but we're just talking hypotheticals anyway, Jezalb would try to make her feel shameful and awful by denigrating her success. 'You're such a scrawny and awful girl,' Jezalb would say. 'There's no way that dress will stay up,' Jezalb would say. 'Why don't you bend over and pick up that handkerchief,' Jezalb would say. Except the princess was not scrawny at all and all of her dresses fit perfectly because her bosom was just the right size. Also, there was a unicorn. The end."

-->''"[[IAlwaysWantedToSayThat I've been waiting to use this particular Knýtling saying for a long time]] - [[NotsoDifferent Marguerite de Nevers, you're a genius!"]]''

* CharacterDeath: While leading troops in Lenister. ''[[AntiClimax Stationary troops.]]''
-->''[[FamousLastWords This Scion cannot even get quite right]]''
-->''[[GeneralFailure A simple solitary victory.]]''
-->''[[FailureIsTheOnlyOption This is pathetic.]]''
-->''[[OurHeroIsDead Agh! I die!]]''

-->''"Like the arms of a unwelcome lover, my lands wrap around Burgundy from both sides and slowly bend her over Bohemia. [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar I will penetrate her in two locations.]]"''

-->''"All this work making people my <medieval profession, plural> is tiring. I'll just take a break to see how <adverb> Italy is <verb ending in -ing>. [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar Even that <noun> from Corsica who became my <noun that means woman> is <verb ending in -ing> them.]]"''

-> ''[[GettingCrapPastTheRadar We're PG-13, but you know where he's been!]]

-> "[[https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/knud-kn%C3%BDtling-prince-of-denmark-and-other-assorted-tales.235468/page-110#post-8710317 Once upon a time]], there was a beautiful girl. She was blonde and slim, and always wore fine dresses and blank expressions that hid her inner sadness. You see, the girl lived a difficult life beset by many challenges: being a perfect queen; wicked step-uncles pawing at her; age stealing her beauty; hard struggles with chastity; softer struggles with Chastity, an emissary from Lesbos; war; more war; even more war; the burdens of destiny that forced her to do as her crooked forebears wished. For a very long time, she was depressed by her troubles and sought to escape by writing about her life. Her characters were always wonderful and suffered none of her problems, but they never made her happy no matter how perfect she tried to make them. In fact, they just made her more and more sad the more perfect they became, because it reminded her of her own flaws. And so she lived a life of isolation, sadness, and depression. The only bright spot of joy she ever experienced was the news that [[EvilChancellor her wicked step-uncle]] had died in [[NoodleIncident some sort of accident involving a harness, the Duchess of Bergslagen, and three carrots.]] It wasn't until the princess took the advice of a long-dead ancestor, advice hidden deep within a history book, that she found true bliss, and the advice was this: [[FamilyUnfriendlyAesop every problem can be solved by killing it or having sex with it.]] Also, there was a unicorn. The end."

--> ''[[SurpassedTheTeacher "You conquered a ton of Swedes, fought an enemy that should've beaten you, learned to love many women, and become Duke of lots of places that weren't yours by right.]] [[spoiler:[[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments I had nothing left to teach you.]]]]"''

* ThemeNaming: "[[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic The ''Musical'' Adventures of King Knud]]".

* HopeSpot: After the war with Burgundy and his civil war with his brother, he conquers Ireland, goes to war in Russia and despite treasons and desertions, [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome wins half of Russia]], he gets wounded, but recovers [[spoiler:only to die of a second infection from gangrene.]]

--> ''[[SurpassedTheTeacher "You conquered a ton of Swedes, fought an enemy that should've beaten you, learned to love many women, and become Duke of lots of places that weren't yours by right.]] [[spoiler:[[HeartwarmingMoments I had nothing left to teach you.]]]]"''

* HopeSpot: After the war with Burgundy and his civil war with his brother, he conquers Ireland, goes to war in Russia and despite treasons and desertions, [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome wins half of Russia]], he gets wounded, but recovers [[spoiler:only to die of a second infection from gangrene.]]

-> ''"[[Literature/TheArtOfWar For did not Sun Tzu tells us, "Fighting with a large army is no different to fighting with a small one as long as]] [[{{Squick}} the chain-yanked hand juice is injected]]"?"''

* ShoutOut: Niels has a tendency to attribute quotes to [[Literature/TheArtOfWar Sun Tzu]]. [[RuleOfFunny Badly.]]

* ThemeNaming: "[[AwesomeMusic The ''Musical'' Adventures of King Knud]]".

-> ''"[[TheArtOfWar For did not Sun Tzu tells us, "Fighting with a large army is no different to fighting with a small one as long as]] [[{{Squick}} the chain-yanked hand juice is injected]]"?"''

* ShoutOut: Niels has a tendency to attribute quotes to [[TheArtOfWar Sun Tzu]]. [[RuleOfFunny Badly.]]

* ShoutOut: To [[Creator/GilbertAndSullivan Gilbert And Sullivan]],{{Queen}}, {{Music/Scorpions}}, [[Music/DireStraits Dire Straits]], {{Music/ABBA}} and more.

* CharacterDeath: [[spoiler: Dies from pueumonia in 1201]]
* CivilWar: Faced a continuous series of rebellions since his inaugration, as well as [[spoiler:after his mother's exile.]]

* [[OneSceneWonder Two-Chapter Wonder]]: He dies three year after becoming king.

-->''"Now he's a lousy spymaster, whereas I am in Russia. . . on a litter. . . suffering from blood poisoning . . . hmmm."''

** [[spoiler: He finds it in Magnus Knýtling, descendent of Sigfred Knýtling, Prince Knud's ''legitmate son''.]]

* [[ShoutOut Shout Out To]] Creator/{{Shakespeare}}: Magnus' chapter takes on the form of Shakespearian scripts.

--> "There was once an evil troll man thing named. . . [[SdrawkcabName Jezalb]]. Jezalb was a horrible beast who was very jealous of beautiful princesses and always tried to make them miserable. That was the only way he could be happy. So he found a wonderful princess and tried to make her miserable, even though she was quite successful at everything she did and really had no reason to be miserable at all. Everybody loved her except for Blazej-- I mean Jezalb-- except for Jezalb. Even when the wonderful princess did something amazing, for instance become Queen of Denmark, not that there is a Denmark in this story but we're just talking hypotheticals anyway, Jezalb would try to make her feel shameful and awful by denigrating her success. 'You're such a scrawny and awful girl,' Jezalb would say. 'There's no way that dress will stay up,' Jezalb would say. 'Why don't you bend over and pick up that handkerchief,' Jezalb would say. Except the princess was not scrawny at all and all of her dresses fit perfectly because her bosom was just the right size. Also, there was a unicorn. The end."
* TheGoodQueen: Chaste, a high Martial Score, unified the Spanish Peninsula and expanded into France, Burgundy, Italy and Africa and '''The Byzantium Empire''' and who unfortunatly is prone to the occasional AccidentalInnuendo.

-> "[[https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/knud-kn%C3%BDtling-prince-of-denmark-and-other-assorted-tales.235468/page-110#post-8710317 Once upon a time]], there was a beautiful girl. She was blonde and slim, and always wore fine dresses and blank expressions that hid her inner sadness. You see, the girl lived a difficult life beset my many challenges: being a perfect queen; wicked step-uncles pawing at her; age stealing her beauty; hard struggles with chastity; softer struggles with Chastity, an emissary from Lesbos; war; more war; even more war; the burdens of destiny that forced her to do as her crooked forebears wished. For a very long time, she was depressed by her troubles and sought to escape by writing about her life. Her characters were always wonderful and suffered none of her problems, but they never made her happy no matter how perfect she tried to make them. In fact, they just made her more and more sad the more perfect they became, because it reminded her of her own flaws. And so she lived a life of isolation, sadness, and depression. The only bright spot of joy she ever experienced was the news that [[EvilChancellor her wicked step-uncle]] had died in [[NoodleIncident some sort of accident involving a harness, the Duchess of Bergslagen, and three carrots.]] It wasn't until the princess took the advice of a long-dead ancestor, advice hidden deep within a history book, that she found true bliss, and the advice was this: [[FamilyUnfriendlyAesop every problem can be solved by killing it or having sex with it.]] Also, there was a unicorn. The end."

-->''"[[FreudWasRight Alamanno is very big down south, and I am struggling to keep his mighty peninsula well in hand.]]"''

* FromBadToWorse: First, [[DemonicPossession he gets possessed by the ghost of Prince Knud Knytling (the first)]], [[AnAxeToGrind then he gets an axe in the head]], [[EverythingsDeaderWithZombies ''then'' becomes a zombie]]; by the end of the game, [[spoiler: he gets wasted by a descendent of Knud I's first arch-enemy Przybyslaw.]]

-> "[[https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/knud-kn%C3%BDtling-prince-of-denmark-and-other-assorted-tales.235468/page-110#post-8710317 Once upon a time]], there was a beautiful girl. She was blonde and slim, and always wore fine dresses and blank expressions that hid her inner sadness. You see, the girl lived a difficult life beset my many challenges: being a perfect queen; wicked step-uncles pawing at her; age stealing her beauty; hard struggles with chastity; softer struggles with Chastity, an emissary from Lesbos; war; more war; even more war; the burdens of destiny that forced her to do as her crooked forebears wished. For a very long time, she was depressed by her troubles and sought to escape by writing about her life. Her characters were always wonderful and suffered none of her problems, but they never made her happy no matter how perfect she tried to make them. In fact, they just made her more and more sad the more perfect they became, because it reminded her of her own flaws. And so she lived a life of isolation, sadness, and depression. The only bright spot of joy she ever experienced was the news that [[EvilChancellor her wicked step-uncle]] had died in [[NoodleAccident some sort of accident involving a harness, the Duchess of Bergslagen, and three carrots.]] It wasn't until the princess took the advice of a long-dead ancestor, advice hidden deep within a history book, that she found true bliss, and the advice was this: [[FamilyUnfriendlyAesop every problem can be solved by killing it or having sex with it.]] Also, there was a unicorn. The end."

* ThemeNaming: The ''[[http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Musal Musal]]'' Adventures of King Sambor

-> phargle: I officially hate each and every one of you.​

[[folder:King George]]

-> "Once upon a time, there was a beautiful girl. She was blonde and slim, and always wore fine dresses and blank expressions that hid her inner sadness. You see, the girl lived a difficult life beset my many challenges: being a perfect queen; wicked step-uncles pawing at her; age stealing her beauty; hard struggles with chastity; softer struggles with Chastity, an emissary from Lesbos; war; more war; even more war; the burdens of destiny that forced her to do as her crooked forebears wished. For a very long time, she was depressed by her troubles and sought to escape by writing about her life. Her characters were always wonderful and suffered none of her problems, but they never made her happy no matter how perfect she tried to make them. In fact, they just made her more and more sad the more perfect they became, because it reminded her of her own flaws. And so she lived a life of isolation, sadness, and depression. The only bright spot of joy she ever experienced was the news that [[EvilChancellor her wicked step-uncle]] had died in [[NoodleAccident some sort of accident involving a harness, the Duchess of Bergslagen, and three carrots.]] It wasn't until the princess took the advice of a long-dead ancestor, advice hidden deep within a history book, that she found true bliss, and the advice was this: [[FamilyUnfriendlyAesop every problem can be solved by killing it or having sex with it.]] Also, there was a unicorn. The end."

-> "Once upon a time, there was a beautiful girl. She was blonde and slim, and always wore fine dresses and blank expressions that hid her inner sadness. You see, the girl lived a difficult life beset my many challenges: being a perfect queen; wicked step-uncles pawing at her; age stealing her beauty; hard struggles with chastity; softer struggles with Chastity, an emissary from Lesbos; war; more war; even more war; the burdens of destiny that forced her to do as her crooked forebears wished. For a very long time, she was depressed by her troubles and sought to escape by writing about her life. Her characters were always wonderful and suffered none of her problems, but they never made her happy no matter how perfect she tried to make them. In fact, they just made her more and more sad the more perfect they became, because it reminded her of her own flaws. And so she lived a life of isolation, sadness, and depression. The only bright spot of joy she ever experienced was the news that her wicked step-uncle had died in some sort of accident involving a harness, the Duchess of Bergslagen, and three carrots. It wasn't until the princess took the advice of a long-dead ancestor, advice hidden deep within a history book, that she found true bliss, and the advice was this: [[FamilyUnfriendlyAesop every problem can be solved by killing it or having sex with it.]] Also, there was a unicorn. The end."​

-> "Once upon a time, there was a beautiful girl. She was blonde and slim, and always wore fine dresses and blank expressions that hid her inner sadness. You see, the girl lived a difficult life beset my many challenges: being a perfect queen; wicked step-uncles pawing at her; age stealing her beauty; hard struggles with chastity; softer struggles with Chastity, an emissary from Lesbos; war; more war; even more war; the burdens of destiny that forced her to do as her crooked forebears wished. For a very long time, she was depressed by her troubles and sought to escape by writing about her life. Her characters were always wonderful and suffered none of her problems, but they never made her happy no matter how perfect she tried to make them. In fact, they just made her more and more sad the more perfect they became, because it reminded her of her own flaws. And so she lived a life of isolation, sadness, and depression. The only bright spot of joy she ever experienced was the news that her wicked step-uncle had died in some sort of accident involving a harness, the Duchess of Bergslagen, and three carrots. It wasn't until the princess took the advice of a long-dead ancestor, advice hidden deep within a history book, that she found true bliss, and the advice was this: [[FamilyUnfriendlyAseop every problem can be solved by killing it or having sex with it.]] Also, there was a unicorn. The end."​

* TheGoodQueen: Chaste, a high Martial Score, unified the Spanish Peninsula and expanded into France, Burgundy, Italy and Africa and who unfortunatly is prone to the occasional AccidentalInnuendo.