These short stories will be published in the Crusader Kings Anthology, with a standard writer’s fee from Paradox Books.

All winners will receive a hard copy of the anthology. Not only that, the winners will receive the Paradox Interactive Collection, a bundle of over 50 games.

The Crusader Kings Anthology will be published by Paradox Books, in print and ebook format. The release date will be announced later.



To celebrate the announcement of the upcoming Charlemagne expansion for Crusader Kings II, we today launch theYes, that’s right, after the success of the Europa Universalis IV Short Story Contest and release of the, the turn has come to all of you talented writers in the CK2 community.The Charlemagne expansion will focus on storytelling in various forms, so we found it fitting to invite you to tell your stories inspired by Crusader Kings. Five winning entries will be published in an anthology, released in ebook and print format byThe contest winners will be joined by several professional authors, including bestselling and award-winning author Steven Savile To join the contest, follow these simple steps:of circa 5,000 words, inspired by thegame. It can certainly be a story of alternate history, based on how a major world event turned out differently than in actual history, but it does not need to be. It is perfectly fine to write a story of historical fiction on a smaller scale, without directly contradicting the history books - the choice is yours. Your short story can be historical, humorous, serious, or any combination of those - as long as it fits the period and the tone of thegame.(circa 200 words) about the historical context of your story, and another 200 words about yourself.Your story should be set in the era of Crusader Kings 2, that is between 769 AD (the new starting date for the Charlemagne expansion) and 1453.You are most welcome to base your story on in-game experiences, but we are not looking for straight AAR’s. Your story should be enjoyable and understandable also for readers who have never played the CK 2 game (poor souls!).We need your story no later than. Send your story as an attached text document to books@paradoxplaza.com . Doc, docx, txt and the like will do, but not PDF. You are only allowed to submit one story to the contest.The five contest winners will be announced on December 1, 2014.