How rare is Canute the Greater?

1.8% of Steam players have it (2026-10-02).

The Northern Lords achievement

Canute the Greater

As an unreformed Tribal, take the Secure the High Kingdom of the North Sea Decision

Canute the Greater is a Crusader Kings III achievement: As an unreformed Tribal, take the Secure the High Kingdom of the North Sea Decision. The game groups it as Hard. 1.8% of Steam players have it (Steam, 2026-10-02). It comes with The Northern Lords. Patch 1.20.0.3, from game/common/achievements/fp1_achievements.txt.

Quick answers (2)

How do you get the Canute the Greater achievement in CK3?: As an unreformed Tribal, take the Secure the High Kingdom of the North Sea Decision.
How rare is Canute the Greater?: 1.8% of Steam players have it (2026-10-02).

Conditions as the game checks them

Possible decides whether the achievement can still be earned in a run; happened is the check that unlocks it (common/achievements/_achievements.info).

Unlocks when (happened) (4 lines of game script)

custom_description = {
	text = canute_the_greater_achievement_trigger
	has_character_flag = canute_the_greater_achievement_flag
}

As written in game/common/achievements/fp1_achievements.txt.

Still possible while (possible) (1 line of game script)

exists = global_var:started_canute_the_greater_achievement

As written in game/common/achievements/fp1_achievements.txt.

Source: game/common/achievements/fp1_achievements.txt, game/common/achievement_groups.txt and the English localisation, Crusader Kings III 1.20.0.3. Unlock share: Steam Web API, 2026-10-02.