Crusader Kings 3can be considered one of the most immersive and epic medievalgrand strategy games out there.The ability to roleplay and respond uniquely to a myriad of events can truly make anyone feel like a king (or queen).
Not surprisingly, religion plays a major role in the world ofCrusader Kings 3and can affect the many decisions that come up during gameplay. Therefore players who want to roleplay differently by introducing matriarchal tenets or live like the Targaeryens fromGame Of Thrones(it’s for an achievement!)will need to reform or create a new religion. The question is how?
6Understanding The Basics
InCK3, the gamefocuses on 3 main resources: money, prestige, and piety. Piety represents a character’s virtue and how much of a goody-two-shoes they are. It also happens to be a critical resource needed to reform or start a new faith. To effectively modify a religion, it is important to ‘mold’ a specific character that can make these changes.
There are also additional bonuses for players to improve their piety income.Certain acquired traitslike being zealous can significantly improve the respective character’s piety, in this case by at least 20%.
5The Right Vessel
As mentioned above, modifying a religion requires theright character to do the job. Players should develop their heir’s learning stat which will increase the amount of piety they receive. Next, players should marry off their heir to a spouse with a high learning stat as well as it will only provide additional piety. In addition to this, players should also find a realm priest blessed with high learning and have them improve religious relations. Sometimes players will not be able to select their priest. That’s no problem though as undesirable agents can sometimes end up with unfortunate illnesses… Ahem.
Players should also select and work their way through Theologian lifestyle focus as it grants characters additional piety. Grabbing the prophet skill is also a must as it will half the piety cost needed to reform the religion. There are alsoadditional lifestyle choicesand perks that a player can select. These can include the mystic trait which boosts learning up to a whopping +4, whilst undertaking a pilgrimage and earning the pilgrim status can increase monthly piety by 10%.
4Holy Sites
Players will also need to have holy sites in their domain to reform their faith. This means that players will need to own and hold 3 of the 5 holy sites available on the world map that their religion considers sacred. It doesn’t count if another faction with the same faith owns it, although players can benefit from the holy site’s perks.
This requires the right timing as players who have multiple children can sometimes have their territories split up depending on their succession laws, which may further drag and complicate matters. Again, timing is extremely important. To clarify where holy sites are, players need to select the religion tab and find the religious symbols on the map denoting each holy site.
3Choosing Tenets
Once players can pay the cost and satisfy all the requirements of creating a new faith, they can select the ‘form new faith’ tab. It should be noted that although a new faith can be created, players can’t exactly start a whole new religion.
With that clarified, players will then have to select new tenets that their new faith will hold in esteem. Tenets can impart certain bonuses and affect how different characters and nations perceive one another as it determines the virtues and sins of a faith. Therefore it’s important to choose wisely. Each tenet will have a piety cost and some are more expensive than others. But who can put a price on a religion that celebrates incest, kin slaying, nudity, and cannibalism?
2Over To Doctrines
These are laws that basically govern the realm and will heavily impact the roleplaying and how other characters perceive your actions. Doctrines come in 4 main forms: main doctrines, clergy doctrines, marriage doctrines, and crime doctrines.
Main doctrines affect things like succession laws, whilst marriage doctrines cover aspects of bastard legitimacy, polygamy, incestuous marriage, and so on. Clergy doctrines on the other hand cover things like gender equality and whether players are allowed to kick out their useless, drunk realm priest to hire a new handsome one that can do the job better.
Crime doctrines determine the dos and don’ts in society and cover areas like the legality of same-sex relations and kin slaying. Kinslaying could be particularly useful for players to justly smother their siblings in their sleep to peacefully inherit the entire realm. It should be noted that doctrines also cost piety so players should decide which doctrines suit them best.
1Spreading The Holy Word
As a result of these decisions,the newly created faith will determine the sins and virtues. Characters will view and judge one another based on what virtuous traits (or lack of) they have. Players will then find out how much their faith modifying bill is and get to name and describe their new cult.
Players will also get to see how many members (family, friends, and vassals) will join in on the conversion. Not everyone will partake and this could potentially fracture relationships down the line but a good religious war or forced conversion can sort everything out.
Crusader Kings 3is available on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S.
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Your legacy awaits. Choose your noble house and lead your dynasty to greatness in a Middle Ages epic that spans generations. War is but one of many tools to establish your reign, as real strategy requires expert diplomatic skill, mastery of your realm, and truecunning.Crusader Kings IIIcontinues the popular series made by Paradox Development Studio, featuring the widely acclaimed marriage of immersive grand strategy and deep, dramatic medieval roleplaying.Take command of your house and expand your dynasty through a meticulously researched Middle Ages. Begin in 867 or 1066 and claim lands, titles, and vassals to secure a realm worthy of your royal blood. Your death is only a footnote as your lineage continues with new playable heirs, either planned… or not.Discover a sprawling simulated world teeming with peasants and knights, courtiers, spies, knaves and jesters, and secret love affairs. An extensive cast of historical characters can be romanced, betrayed, executed, or subtly influenced.Explore a vast medieval map stretching from the snowswept Nordic lands to the Horn of Africa, and the British Isles in the west to the exotic riches of Burma in the east. Claim, conquer, and rule thousands of unique counties, duchies, kingdoms, and empires.
