[LH] Francis I

[Ekmek]

Requested by Wolfshanze in the leader request thread.

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[C.Roland]

Originally Posted by Ekmek

Requested by Wolfshanze in the leader request thread.

This is a work in progress.



Based on:




Picture #1 is the first uploaded picture

Picture #2 is where I'm at modifying the face

Nice work on this one too !

[woodelf]

Looks like a great start.

[Ekmek]

progress report... I think I may be about done. Amazing when I shape fredricks head he looks close to julius who i started with !

[RPG]

Ekmek, You're getting better & better with each one!

[Wolfshanze]

This is looking very good! Can't wait to see the finished product!

[Amra]

Doing a great job Ekmek!

[Edgecrusher]

This one does look very good, good job!

[Ekmek]

There's a slight error in the left shoulder but I couldnt find a way to fix it. So here it is, the best I could do.

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[Wolfshanze]

That looks great! Can't wait to get him in my mod! One of the few dual-emperors... he was Emperor of both the Holy Roman Empire and the Austrian Empire!

[C.Roland]

Nice job here too ! The best austrian LH made for sure

[Aeven]

He looks amazingly well done!

[Aeven]

He looks amazingly well done!

[Iuvavus]

"Gott erhalte, Gott beschütze, unseren Kaiser, unseren Franz!"

Wonderful LH - and very cool background!

[esnaz]

Excellent job, looks great!

[Xenomorph]

Great LH. I don't suppose anyone has any suggestions for traits, dialog, pedia entry or LH stats that they'd be willing to share?

[Wolfshanze]

Yeah... I already have a Francis I pedia entry for the Wolfshanze Mod... unfortunately, the site has been hacked again and Francis I is DOWN and OUT for download! (and I was going to download him this evening! )

I'd use the Charlemagne dialog for him.

Francis I Pedia entry

Spoiler:

<English>[H1]Francis I[\H1][NEWLINE][BOLD]Emperor of the Austrian Empire, Holy Roman Emperor[\BOLD][NEWLINE][BOLD]Lived:[\BOLD] February 12, 1768 - March 2, 1835 AD[NEWLINE][PARAGRAPH:2][BOLD]Background:[\BOLD][PARAGRAPH:1]Francis I of Austria, was the last Holy Roman Emperor, ruling from 1792 until 6 August 1806, when he dissolved the Empire after the disastrous defeat of the Third Coalition by Napoleon at the Battle of Austerlitz. In 1804 he founded the Austrian Empire and became Francis I of Austria, the first Emperor of Austria, ruling from 1804 to 1835, so later he was named the one and only double emperor in history. For the two years between 1804 and 1806 Francis used the title and style by the grace of God elected Roman Emperor, always August, hereditary Emperor of Austria and he was called the Emperor of both Germany and Austria.[PARAGRAPH:1]Francis I continued his leading role as an opponent of Napoleonic France in the Napoleonic Wars, and suffered several more defeats after Austerlitz, the most severe of which led to his delivering his daughter, Marie Louise of Austria, as a bride in a reluctant marriage of state.[PARAGRAPH:1]As the leader of the large multi-ethnic Habsburg Empire, Francis felt threatened by Napoleon's call for liberty and equality in Europe. Francis had a fraught relationship with France. His aunt Marie Antoinette died under the guillotine at the beginning of his reign. Later, he led Austria into the French Revolutionary Wars and was defeated by Napoleon. By the Treaty of Campo Formio, he ceded the left bank of the Rhine to France in exchange for Venice and Dalmatia. He again fought against France during the Second and Third Coalition, when after meeting crushing defeat at Austerlitz, he had to agree to the Treaty of Pressburg, which effectively dissolved the Holy Roman Empire, weakening the Austrian Empire and reorganizing present-day Germany under a Napoleonic imprint.[PARAGRAPH:1]In 1809, Francis attacked France again, hoping to take advantage of the Peninsular War embroiling Napoleon in Spain. He was again defeated, and this time forced to ally himself with Napoleon, ceding territory to the Empire, joining the Continental System, and wedding his daughter Marie-Louise to the Emperor. Francis essentially became a vassal of the Emperor of the French. The Napoleonic wars drastically weakened Austria and threatened its preeminence among the states of Germany, a position that it would eventually cede to Prussia.[PARAGRAPH:1]In 1813, for the fourth and final time, Austria turned against France and joined Great Britain, Russia, and Prussia in their war against Napoleon. Austria played a major role in the final defeat of France—in recognition of this, Francis, represented by Clemens von Metternich, presided over the Congress of Vienna, helping to form the Concert of Europe and the Holy Alliance, ushering in an era of conservatism and reactionism in Europe. The German Confederation, a loose association of Central European states was created by the Congress of Vienna in 1815 to organize the surviving states of the Holy Roman Empire. The Congress was a personal triumph for Francis, where he hosted the assorted dignitaries in comfort, though Francis undermined his allies Tsar Alexander and Frederick William III of Prussia by negotiating a secret treaty with the restored French king Louis XVIII.[PARAGRAPH:1]Francis was by nature suspicious, and set up an extensive network of police spies and censors to monitor dissent (in this he was following his father's lead, as the Grand Duchy of Tuscany had the most effective secret police in Europe). Even his family did not escape attention. His brothers, the Archdukes Charles and Johann had their meetings and activities spied upon. Censorship was also prevalent. The author Franz Grillparzer, a Habsburg patriot, had one play suppressed solely as a 'precautionary' measure. When Grillparzer met the censor responsible, he asked him what was objectionable about the work. The censor replied "Oh, nothing at all. But I thought to myself 'One can never tell'."[PARAGRAPH:1]Francis presented himself as an open and approachable monarch (he regularly set aside two mornings each week to meet his imperial subjects, regardless of status, by appointment in his office, even speaking to them in their own language), but his will was sovereign. In 1804, he had no compunction about announcing that through his authority as Holy Roman Emperor, he declared he was now Emperor of Austria (at the time a geographical term that had little resonance). Two years later, Francis personally wound up the moribund Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation. Both actions were of dubious constitutional legality.[PARAGRAPH:1]On March 2, 1835, 43 years and a day after his father's death, Francis died of a sudden fever aged 67, in the presence of many of his family and with all the religious comforts. His funeral was magnificent, with his Viennese subjects respectfully filing past his coffin in St. Stephen's Cathedral for three days. Francis was interred in the traditional resting place of Habsburg monarchs, the Kapuziner Imperial Crypt in Vienna's Neue Markt Square.</English>

[Wolfshanze]

Francis I is now available as the leader of Austria in the Wolfshanze Mod (see signature link).

On a side note Ekmek, I noticed in some diplomacy screens the background image does not go all the way to the top... so you get the dark-sky for most of the screen, and a strip of brightly colored sky near the top in some diplomacy screens!

[Wolfshanze]

No more love for Francis?

[Ekmek]

Originally Posted by Wolfshanze

so you get the dark-sky for most of the screen, and a strip of brightly colored sky near the top in some diplomacy screens!

yeah I have a few other heads to fix. could you post screnshots of the error. its faster to fix instead of starting a game