Le Conseil
The council is a group of specialized vassals or courtier that help a landed character rule their realm. If a councilor is also a commander, it cannot lead troops while assigned to a task.
Each councilor can be assigned to one of a number of tasks. Current progress towards a councilor task is lost if the task is changed, except for Integrate Title and Increase Development/Control in County. Progress is not lost if the councilor dies. While a councilor is performing a task, one event related to it can trigger each year, although they are prohibited from occurring in the first month of assignment. Positive events can take place if the councilor's skill is above 8 and negative events can take place if the councilor's skill is below 15. Each task's effect scales linearly with the councilor's skill. In addition, all tasks are performed 20% more efficiently if the councilor is a Modèle:Icon/f Friend of the liege, 30% more efficiently if the councilor is a Modèle:Icon/b Best Friend of the liege, 20% less efficiently if the councilor is a Modèle:Icon/r Rival of the liege, and 30% less efficiently if the councilor is a Fichier:Nemesis.png Nemesis of the liege.
Characters cannot be appointed Councilors if they have the Modèle:Icon/i Incapable trait.
Spymaster
The Spymaster is a position available to all rulers. It uses Modèle:Icon/i Intrigue as primary skill and its purpose is to help the ruler's schemes and protect them against hostile schemes. In a Modèle:Icon/c Celestial Hegemony of China the council position will be renamed to Imperial Censor and will receive the Modèle:Icon/e The Censorate title. The council position has three possible tasks:
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| Fichier:Task disrupt schemes.png Disrupt Schemes |
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| Fichier:Task support schemes.png Support Schemes |
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| Fichier:Task find secrets.png Find Secrets |
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Confidant
The Confidant is a position available to all rulers except a Modèle:Icon/c Celestial Hegemon of China and occupied in the following order:
- The vizier, if ruler has any.
- The primary spouse, if they are unlanded or a direct vassal.
The confidant can perform the following tasks. There are no negative effects if they have low skill.
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| Fichier:Unknown.png Assist Ruler | Modèle:Icon/u 20% of all Councilor's Skills are added to the Ruler's | |
| Fichier:Diplomacy.png Court Politics |
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| Fichier:Stewardship.png Manage Domain |
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Regular council
Rulers who do not have Modèle:Icon/n Nomadic government or a Modèle:Icon/c Celestial Hegemony of China have four additional council positions.
Chancellor
The Chancellor uses Modèle:Icon/d Diplomacy as their primary skill and has four possible tasks:
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| Fichier:Task foreign affairs.png Foreign Affairs |
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| Fichier:Task domestic affairs.png Domestic Affairs |
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| Fichier:Task integrate title.png Integrate Title | Modèle:Icon/y At 100 progress, the targeted title becomes de jure part of the Primary Title | Task Boost | Task Setback | Modèle:Icon/y Any county in realm currently de jure drifting |
| Fichier:Task bestow royal favor.png Bestow Royal Favor |
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Modèle:Icon/r Court Grandeur level 2 or higher |
Steward
The Steward uses Modèle:Icon/s Stewardship as their primary skill and has five possible tasks:
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| Fichier:Task collect taxes.png Collect Taxes | Modèle:Icon/g +0.5% Domain Taxes per Councilor Skill | Extra Taxes | County Corruption | |
| Fichier:Task develop county.png Increase Development in County |
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| Fichier:Task promote culture.png Promote Culture |
Modèle:Icon/c Progresses at a base speed of (0.25 + councilor skill ÷ 20)% per month, with various modifiers (visible only in the code, not in-game). At 100%, county changes culture to the liege's. |
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| Fichier:Task accept culture.png Promote Cultural Acceptance |
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Reduced Development Growth |
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| Fichier:Task convince dejure.png Convince De Jure Territory |
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Prestige Gain |
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Marshal
The Marshal uses Modèle:Icon/m Martial as their primary skill and has four possible tasks:
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| Fichier:Task organize levies.png Organize Army |
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| Fichier:Task train commanders.png Train Commanders |
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| Fichier:Task increase control.png Increase Control in County |
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Modèle:Icon/y A country with Corruption or less than 100 Control |
| Fichier:Task manage guards.png Manage Royal Guards |
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Modèle:Icon/r Court Grandeur level 3 or higher |
Religious affairs councilor
There are two possible religious affair councilors, depending on the Clerical Tradition doctrine of the ruler's faith. Both of them use Modèle:Icon/l Learning as their primary skill. Who appoints them and for how long depends on the faith's Fichier:Doctrine clerical succession.pngClerical Appointment doctrine, and only characters who have the same faith as the liege and are allowed by the Fichier:Doctrine clerical gender.pngClerical Gender doctrine can be appointed. A character with the Modèle:Icon/e Excommunicated trait cannot be appointed to this council position if faith has the Modèle:Icon/c Communion tenet, unless the liege has the same trait.
- Fichier:Religious councillor job.png Court ChaplainModèle:Anchor is the position available if the faith has the Modèle:Icon/l Lay Clergy doctrine and has no special mechanics.
- Fichier:Bishop job.png Realm PriestModèle:Anchor is the position available if the faith has the Modèle:Icon/t Theocratic doctrine. The court positions leases all Temple holdings in the liege's domain and receive a portion of the Taxes and Levies of every vassal's Realm Priest of the same faith. Realm Priests provide their liege with taxes and levies equal to their Opinion, ranging from 0 to 50. They provide all their Taxes and Levies regardless of Opinion if their liege has a Strong Hook on them.
The council position has three possible tasks:
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| Fichier:Task religious relations.png Religious RelationsModèle:Anchor |
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| Fichier:Task fabricate claim.png Fabricate Claim on CountyModèle:Anchor | Modèle:Icon/u Progresses at a base speed of (3 + councilor skill ÷ 5)% per month, with various modifiers. At 100%, you gain an unpressed claim. | Claim on Duchy |
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| Fichier:Task conversion.png Convert Faith in CountyModèle:Anchor | Modèle:Icon/u Progresses at a base speed of (0.5 + councilor skill ÷ 10)% per month, with various modifiers. At 100%, county changes faith to the liege's. |
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Kurultai
Modèle:Expansion Rulers with Modèle:Icon/n Nomadic government can grant four Kurultai positions. Their obedience is necessary for the realm to have a Stable Succession. Each Kurultai can be assigned to one of the following tasks:
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| Fichier:Task kurultai domestic affairs.png Domestic Affairs | Modèle:Icon/d Diplomacy |
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| Fichier:Task kurultai support herders.png Support Herders | Modèle:Icon/d Diplomacy |
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| Fichier:Task kurultai increase control.png Increase Control in County | Modèle:Icon/m Martial |
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| Fichier:Task kurultai raider.png Organize Raiders | Modèle:Icon/m Martial |
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Can only be done by one councilor |
| Fichier:Task kurultai exploit area.png Exploit Lands | Modèle:Icon/s Stewardship |
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| Fichier:Task kurultai fertility.png Manage Fertility | Modèle:Icon/s Stewardship | Modèle:Icon/c +1% County Fertility per Councilor Skill |
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| Fichier:Task kurultai court astrologer.png Aid Stargazer | Modèle:Icon/l Learning |
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| Fichier:Task kurultai culture.png Explore Cultures | Modèle:Icon/l Learning |
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Hegemony of China council
Modèle:Expansion As long as the Hegemony of China has Modèle:Icon/c Celestial government it will have 8 additional council positions. Councilors receive a salary that is decided in the realm budget allocation and their domicile location will always be the liege's realm capital. The councilors receive the following bonuses in addition to the usual councilor bonuses:
- Modèle:Icon/y Additional interactions with fellow vassals
- Modèle:Icon/e A titular Empire title
- Modèle:Icon/s +1 Max Hostile, Personal and Political schemes
- Modèle:Icon/i +8 Monthly Influence
- Fichier:Favored minister court position.png Can be given the Favored Minister council position
- Fichier:Minister bureaucrat court position.png Unlock the Department Aide council position
- Modèle:Icon/d Can take the Request Bestowal of Honors decision
- Modèle:Icon/y Influence Career interaction has an additional option: Grant Examination Exemption. This option costs 600 Modèle:Icon/i Influence and automatically passes all examinations for the selected family member. If a minister uses the Grant Examination Exemption option more than once it will have to pay 2000 Modèle:Icon/m Merit for each use.
The councilors cannot have landed titles and will trigger a succession if they own any when they're appointed. They cannot have their claims used in casus belli and if an ongoing war used such a casus belli the war will end. They also cannot create Fichier:Independence faction.png Independence factions.
When a councilor dies it is automatically replaced with another character who has a Merit Rank of 3 or above who has the highest score. The liege can manually replace councilors but if the new councilor's Merit Rank is below 3 the era will be pushed towards Fichier:Dynastic cycle phase instability.png Tension. Score is based on the following:
- +100 if movement leader
- +100 if same culture as the liege and liege took the Promote Cultural Governors decision
- +25 if movement is the favored movement
- +20 if Elder of the current councilor
- +10 if Disciple of the current councilor
- +10 if age is above 40
- +10 per level of influence
- +1 per skill used by the council position
- -5 if age is below 30
- All bonuses are reduced by 75% if the character is older than the retirement age
- All bonuses are reduced by 80% if the character is not favored by the gender law
The hegemon can use the following additional interactions with councilors:
- Request Mentorship requires choosing a character at the court. The councilor will gain +30 Modèle:Icon/m Merit and the selected character will become the councilor's Disciple. The councilor can be asked to give the selected character Modèle:Icon/m Merit, a commander trait the councilor has, or the Modèle:Icon/c Confucian Education trait if the councilor has it.
- Requisition Treasury asks to take half of the councilor's Modèle:Icon/t Treasury, up to a maximum of 400 per councilor title rank. It costs 30 Modèle:Icon/i Influence and the cost is increased by 10 for each Merit Rank the councilor has. The councilor can refuse but refusing costs 60 Modèle:Icon/i Influence and the cost is increased by 30 for each level of Modèle:Icon/m Merit that the councilor has lower than the liege.
- Request Commander is only available with the Minister of War councilor and allows selecting a courtier of the councilor to add to the hegemon's court. The interaction costs 55 Modèle:Icon/t Treasury and the selected courtier must be adult, allowed to be a commander, and cannot be a close family member of the councilor.
Departments
Departments are the 3 more powerful councilors. One of the departments will be the diarch, decided by the Grand Secretariat Control law. The Spymaster, called Imperial Censor, will also be a department.
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| Grand Chancellor | Modèle:Icon/d Diplomacy | Fichier:Task foreign affairs.png Foreign Affairs |
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| Fichier:Task integrate title.png Integrate Title | Modèle:Icon/y At 100 progress, the targeted title becomes de jure part of the Primary Title | Task Boost | Task Setback | |||
| Grand Marshal | Modèle:Icon/m Martial | Fichier:Task train commanders.png Train Commanders |
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Ministries
Ministries are the 6 less powerful councilors.
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| Minister of Personnel | Modèle:Icon/d Diplomacy | Fichier:Task manage talent.png Manage Talent |
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| Minister of War | Modèle:Icon/m Martial | Fichier:Task organize levies.png Organize Army |
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| Fichier:Task increase control.png Increase Control in County |
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| Fichier:Task manage guards.png Manage Royal Guards |
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| Minister of Revenue | Modèle:Icon/s Stewardship | Fichier:Task collect taxes.png Collect Taxes | Modèle:Icon/g +0.5% Domain Taxes per Councilor Skill | Extra Taxes | County Corruption |
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| Fichier:Task promote culture.png Promote Culture | Modèle:Icon/c At 100% County changes Culture to the liege's |
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| Fichier:Task accept culture.png Promote Cultural Acceptance |
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| Fichier:Task convince dejure.pngConvince De Jure Territory | Modèle:Icon/dThe target County requires its ruler to hand it over to its De Jure liege | Prestige Gain |
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| Minister of Works | Modèle:Icon/s Stewardship | Fichier:Task develop county.png Increase Development in County |
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| Fichier:Task great project.png Support Great Projects | Modèle:Icon/t −0.5% Great Project Construction Time per Councilor Skill | Extra Taxes | County Corruption | |||
| Minister of Rites | Modèle:Icon/l Learning | Fichier:Task religious relations.png Religious Relations |
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| Fichier:Task conversion.png Convert Faith in County | Modèle:Icon/u At 100% county changes faith to the liege's |
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| Minister of Justice | Modèle:Icon/l Learning | Fichier:Task fabricate claim.png Fabricate Claim on County | Modèle:Icon/u At 100% gain an Unpressed Claim | Claim on Duchy |
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Benefits from being a councilor
Each councilor will gain various benefits depending on both the exact position and the title rank of its liege. If the councilor is a vassal with a government that uses Modèle:Icon/i Influence they will gain some that scales with both the liege's title rank and its monthly income.
| Council position | Modèle:Icon/c County | Modèle:Icon/d Duchy | Modèle:Icon/k Kingdom | Modèle:Icon/e Empire | Modèle:Icon/h Hegemony |
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| Marshal Modèle:Icon/a Grand Marshal Modèle:Icon/a Minister of War |
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| Chancellor Modèle:Icon/a Grand Chancellor Modèle:Icon/a Minister of Justice Modèle:Icon/a Minister of Personnel |
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| Steward Modèle:Icon/a Minister of Revenue Modèle:Icon/a Minister of Works |
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| Court Chaplain Realm Priest Modèle:Icon/a Minister of Rites |
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References
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