The Mystery of Janusk - What file is he hiding in?

I should specify, I'm looking for the Janusk for random core games. The Janusk from the campaign is safe and well in MainCampaign.xml

He is selected at random from the Tier 1 heroes in CoreNPC.xml.

He doesn't strictly exist (:

Yes, his selection is random. However, there must be a process or code somewhere that defines that selection somewhere.

My guess is that he's coded into the main program.

I think he must indeed be hardcoded somehow. I'd expect to at least be able to find his name and the other text he imposes on the random tier 1 NPC.

Strikes me that he's the sort of thing that should not be hardcoded, if we're supposed to be making a diverse array of worlds. Janusk, everchanging and omnipresent, is beginning to creep me out.

All I wanted to do was swap him out for someone nice and marryable!

13:55 <Janusk> ;(

Janusk is like Q in Star Trek,impossible to get rid of when he's there and to find when you are looking for him 

If you start a game with Janusk Advice unchecked does he still appear?  I don't have the game in front of me, but I thought there was an option for him somewhere in the game.

How does that work for MP?  Does everyone have their own Janusk?

So I wonder if there's some option you set in your campaign xml that would keep him away.

Maybe there's some event that could be created at the start of the game that could just kill him off and display a random death message (for humor). 

"You hear a faint grunt, as if someone was punched in the chest, but you see nothing."

Yes, this is a setting in game options and if it is disabled, Janusk does not appear in the game. I've been playing this way for a while, quite happily

Aye, I know I can get rid of him altogether if I want. I'd rather modify him though.

The way I see it, fair's fair. The AIs all start with a spouse, so it's not unreasonable for us to start with a free champion too, be it Janusk or someone else.

He used to show up for free and join you for free in beta... but back then we also downloaded data from SD's servers to play and didn't have the local data so who knows how that was done. If you just want a free champion, I'd open up one of the XMLs and see if defines a spawn percentage/tile distance variance, or some other spawn trigger. You might be able to make your own that spawns nearby at start and is free.

Make a better one

I only use Janusk for sex. All the other sov.s have spouses at the beginning of the game, with Janusk you have one too (as long as you are female, that is).

Janusk: Boy Toy

Yep, I jump his buns as soon as I get my rep high enough to get him to the altar.  Free channellers 100 turns later.