As the title says, I've had quite a few merchant republics that were my vassals for nearly 100 years (50-80 years) randomly go independent. There was no faction war, no rebellions, just randomly, land that used to be mine suddenly was independent. It hasn't happened to any merchant republics that have de jure drifted into my kingdom, and they don't all go independent at once, just slowly by age. Possibly at 50 years? I'm not sure.



Is this intended?



Or is this related to the latest patch bugs? (like my european rulers and vassals randomly getting the Sayyid trait...)



EDIT: Now a much older (drifted into my kingdom 20 years ago) republic just randomly became independent. It isn't following a pattern it'd seem...