Kingdom Come: Deliverance II — Kuttenberg and the Bohemian Paradise

The sequel opens with Henry, Hans Capon and their entourage riding from Rattay to Trosky Castle to question Otto von Bergow about his allegiance to King Sigismund. They are denied entry because they cannot prove who they are, and a tavern brawl, which Capon starts and then blames on Henry, makes the two fall out. Capon leaves, and Henry is on his own. The game rebuilds the castle as it stood in 1403. The game's 2025 release raised interest in visiting the real ruin.

Visitor guidance: Trosky is a ruin that is open to visitors; the Baba tower has a steel observation deck at its summit.

Henry learns that Bergow will attend a wedding in the village of Semine and infiltrates the celebration. Bergow never arrives, and the groom, Olda Semine, secretly leaves. When a brawl breaks out, Henry and Capon are imprisoned in Trosky Castle, and Capon is sentenced to hang for poaching. The real Semín is a hamlet about 2 km west of Troskovice, first recorded in 1356 as the seat of Jan and Oldřich of Semín. The game gives it a stronghold that was said to have stood there earlier; today a recreation and training centre occupies the site.

Location precision: No stronghold survives at Semín; the pin marks the hamlet of Semínský Dvůr, which the game recreates for the wedding.

Bergow assigns Henry and Capon to help put down banditry, and the two enlist soldiers from Nebakov Fortress. A captive bandit then reveals that the bandits have covertly taken Nebakov over. Bergow musters a force to retake it, but the attack fails and Henry and Capon are taken prisoner. The game shows the castle with its pond and mill. The real Nebákov was built in the mid-13th century above the Žehrovka stream and its fishpond, probably burned down by the end of the 15th century and was abandoned by 1538. A Baroque water mill by the pond was rebuilt in 1743.

Henry learns that Capon is held at Bergow's Maleshov castle. He and Zizka infiltrate it and rescue Capon and the prisoner Vauquelin Brabant. Later, with hired mercenaries and a stolen bombard, the group storms Maleshov and captures Bergow, who argues that Sigismund's position in Bohemia is unsustainable. The game shows the tvrz as it was in 1403 and gives it to Bergow; the real keep belonged to the Ruthard family, burghers of Kutná Hora, until 1411. A reconstruction in 2002-2017 brought it close to its high Gothic look.

Visitor guidance: The tvrz can be visited only on a guided tour booked in advance.

On a side quest in Kuttenberg, Henry goes to the ossuary and arranges the bones into pyramids. The game shows it almost empty and in disarray, and features the blind monk of the legend, whom they called Morticius. The legend itself gives a half-blind monk the task of stacking the bones after 1511. The real chapel lies beneath the Cemetery Church of All Saints in Sedlec, a suburb of Kutná Hora. Today it holds the skeletons of an estimated 40,000 to 70,000 people, and a chandelier of bones hangs in the nave.

Visitor guidance: The ossuary is in the Sedlec suburb of Kutná Hora, under the Cemetery Church of All Saints.

With the lords captured, Bergow suggests robbing Sigismund's silver reserves in his Kuttenberg royal residence, which also holds the lords. Part of the party masquerades as a papal legate as a distraction while the rest traverse Kuttenberg's mines to reach the silver. The game depicts the Italian Court, the royal mint where Prague groschen were struck and a part-time royal residence. History ran the other way: after the surrender in January 1403 nearly all Kutná Hora's wealth, including goods stored in the Italian Court, was carried off.

Visitor guidance: It is now a museum of coin minting; the royal chapel and the hall of audience are open to the public.

At Suchdol, Margrave Jobst warns Henry's group to refrain from banditry. After the silver heist the group flees to Suchdol castle, and Sigismund and his army leave Bohemia. A force led by Aulitz, Bergow and Brabant then besieges Suchdol; Aulitz is mortally wounded by Dry Devil, and Henry returns with reinforcements to repel the attackers. History has a parallel: Sigismund's commander Markvart of Úlice died in the siege of the Suchdol fort on 27 December 1402. Today the Gothic fortress is a Renaissance castle with the municipal office inside, beside the Church of St Margaret.

Visitor guidance: Suchdol is about 7 km west of Kutná Hora; the castle houses the municipal office and the church of St Margaret stands next to it.