Culture

The culture represents the language, customs and technologies that a character or county use. It decides innovations, names and cultural men-at-arms regiments that characters can use. Rulers can change a county's culture by ordering their Steward to complete the Promote Culture council task.

Each culture belongs to a culture group, which represents a group of cultures with similar ancestry. Characters within the same realm will have −5 opinion with each other if they belong to different cultures within the same culture group and −15 opinion with each other if they belong to different culture groups. There are perks and tenets that can modify this.

Counties will have lowered popular opinion with their direct Liege if they belongs to a different culture and especially culture group. Characters can avoid this by granting the county title to a vassal of the same culture group as the target county.

A ruler can convert to the culture of their realm capital at the cost of prestige, provided that their Court Chaplain endorses them^[1]. Every close family member sharing the ruler's culture will adopt the new culture. Vassals sharing the ruler's culture that owns counties with the new culture can decide to adopt it as well.

Cultural head[edit]

Each culture with at least one ruler has a cultural head. The cultural head is always the adult character who owns the most counties of said culture.

Cultural heads can choose an innovation to be a cultural fascination, which will improve its discovery progress by +20%, with an additional +2% per cultural head learning skill. The cultural fascination can be changed at any time.

Changing culture[edit]

A character can change their culture through several ways:

A character can voluntarily change their culture through the minor decision Change to local culture once in their lifetime.
Culture can be changed through several decisions that create new cultures
A ruler can give into the demands of a populist faction and change faith and culture
Several events such as a culture breakup will force rulers to change their culture
A child's culture can be changed by assigning them a guardian of that culture and selecting the Convert Culture option

Rulers can change a county's culture by ordering their Steward to complete the Promote Culture council task. Promote culture task base progress is 0.5 per month and can be increased with:

Skill of steward by 0.10 per point of stewardship
Steward being friend with the ruler by 20%
Bureaucrats Dynasty legacy perk by 10%
Ostsiedlung regional innovation by 15%
Communal identity tenet with the same faith in the county by 50%

List of cultures[edit]

The Holy Roman clothing appearance requires the pre-order bonus, while the Abbasid clothing requires the Expansion Pass. Cultures marked with italics are always dead and only used for character history.

Group	Cultures	Baron name	Count name	Duke name	King name	Emperor name	Knight name	Buildings appearance	Clothing appearance	Army appearance	Coat of arms appearance
Akan	Akan	Obaatan/Obaatana	Nana	Krontihene/Krontihena	Omanhene/Omanhena	Akanhene/Akanhena	Champion	Mena	African	Sub-Saharan	West-African
	Guan
	Kru
Arabic	Andalusian	Wālī/Wālīa (Wilāyah)	Sheikh/Sheikhah (Sheikhdom) Wali/Wâlia ^[2]	Emir/Emira (Emirate) Wali-Emir/Wâlia-Emir ^[2]	Malik/Malika (Malikate) Sultan/Sultana (Sultanate) ^[3] Wali-Malik/Wâlia-Malik ^[2]	Malik al-Muazzam/Malika al-Muazzama (Empire)	Fāris	Mena	Abbasid Mena	Mena	Arabic
	Bedouin
	Egyptian
	Maghrebi
	Mashriqi
	Yemeni
Baltic	Latgalian	Baron/Baroness	Count/Countess	Duke/Duchess	King/Queen	Emperor/Empress	Knight	Western	Northern	Northern	Baltic Steppe Western
	Lithuanian				Grand Duke/Grand Duchess (Grand Duchy) ^[4]
	Prussian				King/Queen
Balto-Finnic	Estonian	Baron/Baroness	Count/Countess	Duke/Duchess	King/Queen	Emperor/Empress	Champion	Western	Northern	Northern	Balto-Finnic Steppe Western
	Finnish
	Karelian
	Sami
	Vepsian
Berber	Baranis	Nā'ib/Nā'iba (Bou) Ra'īs/Ra'īsa ^[5]	Wālī/Wālīa (Wilāyah) Sheikh/Shaykha (Sheikhdom) ^[6]	Emir/Emira (Emirate)	Amīr al-Umarā/Amīra al-Umarā (Grand Emirate)	Malik al-Mulūk/Malika al-Mulūk (Empire)	Knight	Mena	Mena	Mena	Berber
	Butr
	Zaghawa
Brythonic	Breton	Baron/Baroness	Count/Countess	Duke/Duchess Petty King/Petty Queen (Petty Kingdom) ^[4]	King/Queen	Emperor/Empress	Knight	Western	Western	Western	Western
	Cornish
	Cumbrian
	Pictish		Mormaer/Banmormaer (Mormaerdom)
	Welsh		Count/Countess	Duke/Duchess Prince/Princess (Principality) ^[4]
Burman	Burmese	Baron/Baroness	Count/Countess	Duke/Duchess	King/Queen	Emperor/Empress	Knight	Indian	Indian	Indian	Burman
Burman	Mon	Baron/Baroness	Count/Countess	Duke/Duchess	King/Queen	Emperor/Empress	Knight	Indian	Indian	Indian	Burman
Byzantine	Alan	Baron/Baroness	Count/Countess	Duke/Duchess Eparch/Eparchessa ^[2]	King/Queen Serene Doge/Serene Dogaressa ^[2]	Emperor/Empress	Hetaeria	Mediterranean	Byzantine	Eastern	Byzantine Western
	Armenian			Prince/Princess (Principality) Eparch/Eparchessa ^[2]
	Assyrian			Duke/Duchess Eparch/Eparchessa ^[2]
	Georgian			Duke/Duchess Prince/Princess (Principality) ^[4] Eparch/Eparchessa ^[2]
	Greek		Komes/Komitissa	Doux/Doukissa	Despot/Despotissa	Basileus/Basilissa
Central African	Hausa	Gida Petty Magajiya ^[7]	Sarkin Gadi/Sarkina Gadi Magajiya ^[7]	Galadima/Magajiya Grand Magajiya ^[7]	Sarkin/Sarauniya	Sarkin Sarakuna/Sarauniyar Sarauniya	Champion	Mena	African	Sub-Saharan	Central African
	Kanuri	Chima Chidibe	Chima	Galadima	Mai/Gumsu	Sultan/Sultana
	Nupe
	Sao
Central Germanic	Bavarian	Baron/Baroness	Count/Countess	Duke/Duchess	King/Queen	Kaiser/Kaiserin	Knight	Western	Holy Roman Western	Western	German Western
	Dutch
	Franconian
	Frisian
	German
	Saxon
	Swabian
Chinese	Han	Baron/Baroness	Count/Countess	Duke/Duchess	King/Queen	Emperor/Empress	Knight	Indian	Mongol	Mongol	Han
Dravidian	Kannada	Damapati/Damapatni (Dama)	Thakur/Thakurani (Thikana)	Raja/Rani (Raj)	Maharaja/Maharani	Samrat/Samrajni	Shoorveer	Indian	Indian	Indian	Dravidian
	Tamil
	Telugu
East African	Daju	Baron/Baroness	Count/Countess	Duke/Duchess Petty King/Petty Queen (Petty Kingdom) ^[4]	King/Queen	Emperor/Empress	Knight	Mena	Mena	Mena	East African
	Ethiopian		Ras/Woyzerit	Mesfin/Woyzero Petty King/Petty Queen (Petty Kingdom) ^[4]	Negus/Nigist	Negusa Negast/Itege
	Nubian		Count/Countess	Duke/Duchess Petty King/Petty Queen (Petty Kingdom) ^[4]	King/Queen	Emperor/Empress
	Welayta		Count/Countess	Duke/Duchess Petty King/Petty Queen (Petty Kingdom) ^[4]	King/Queen	Emperor/Empress
East Slavic	Ilmenian	Baron/Baroness	Count/Countess	Duke/Duchess	King/Queen	Emperor/Empress	Knight	Western	Northern	Eastern	East Slavic Western
	Russian			Grand Prince/Grand Princess (Grand Principality)		Tsar/Tsaritsa (Tsardom)
	Severian			Duke/Duchess		Emperor/Empress
	Volhynian			Duke/Duchess		Emperor/Empress
Frankish	Frankish	Baron/Baroness	Count/Countess	Duke/Duchess	King/Queen	Emperor/Empress	Knight	Western	Western	Western	Frankish Western
	French
	Norman
	Occitan
	Outremer
Goidelic	Gaelic	Baron/Baroness	Mormaer/Banmormaer (Mormaerdom)	Duke/Duchess Petty King/Petty Queen (Petty Kingdom) ^[4]	King/Queen	Emperor/Empress	Knight	Western	Northern	Western	Western
Goidelic	Irish	Baron/Baroness	Count/Countess	Duke/Duchess Petty King/Petty Queen (Petty Kingdom) ^[4]	King/Queen	Emperor/Empress	Knight	Western	Northern	Western	Western
Guinean Uplander	Bobo	Tigui/Tigua	Farin/Farina (Jamana) Jamanatigi/Jamanatiga (Jamana) ^[4]	Farbas/Farba (Duchy)	Faama/Malika (Kingdom)	Mansa/Sultana (Kurufaba)	Knight	Mena	African	Sub-Saharan	West-African
	Gur
	Malinke
	Marka
	Mel
Horn African	Afar	Akil/Akilad	Islan/Islanad	Gerad/Geradad	Ughaz/Ughazad ^[5] Suldaan/Suldaanad ^[8]	Boqor/Boqorad	Knight	Mena	Mena	Mena	East African
	Beja	Omda	Nazir/Nazira	Emir/Emira	Malik/Malika	Sultan/Sultana
	Somali	Akil/Akilad	Islan/Islanad	Gerad/Geradad	Ughaz/Ughazad ^[5] Suldaan/Suldaanad ^[8]	Boqor/Boqorad
Iberian	Aragonese	Baron/Baroness Wālī/Wālīa (Wilāyah) ^[9]	Count/Countess Sheikh/Sheikhah (Sheikhdom) ^[9]	Duke/Duchess Emir/Emira (Emirate) ^[9]	King/Queen Malik/Malika (Malikate) ^[9]	Emperor/Empress Malik al-Muazzam/Malika al-Muazzama (Empire) ^[9]	Knight	Mediterranean	Western	Western	Iberian Western
	Asturleonese
	Basque
	Castilian
	Catalan
	Galician
	Portuguese
	Suebi
	Visigothic
Indo-Aryan	Assamese	Damapati/Damapatni (Dama)	Thakur/Thakurani (Thikana)	Raja/Rani (Raj)	Maharaja/Maharani	Samrat/Samrajni	Shoorveer	Indian	Indian	Indian	Indo-Aryan
	Bengali
	Gujarati
	Hindustani
	Kashmiri
	Marathi
	Nepali
	Oriya
	Punjabi
	Rajput
	Sindhi
	Sinhala
Iranian	Afghan	Argbadh (Arg) Nā'ib/Nā'iba (Arg) ^[3]	Marzoban (Marzpanate) Vali/Valia (Vilāyah) ^[3]	Satrap (Satrapy) Amir/Amira (Amirate) ^[3]	Shah/Banebshen (Shahdom) Amir-e-Amiran/Amira-e-Amiran (Grand Amirate) ^[3]	Shahanshah/Banebshenan Banebshen (Empire)	Aswaran	Mena	Mena	Mena	Iranian
	Baloch
	Daylamite
	Khwarezmian
	Kurdish
	Persian
	Saka
	Sogdian			Ikhshid/Satrap Amir/Amira ^[3]
	Tajik			Satrap Amir/Amira ^[3]
	Tocharian			Satrap Amir/Amira ^[3]
Israelite	Ashkenazi	Baron/Baroness	Count/Countess	Duke/Duchess	King/Queen	Emperor/Empress	Knight	Mena	Byzantine	Mena	Israelite
Israelite	Sephardi	Baron/Baroness	Count/Countess	Duke/Duchess	King/Queen	Emperor/Empress	Knight	Mena	Byzantine	Mena	Israelite
Latin	Cisalpine	Baron/Baroness	Count/Countess	Duke/Duchess Doge/Dogaressa ^[2]	King/Queen Serene Doge/Serene Dogaressa ^[2]	Emperor/Empress	Knight	Mediterranean	Western	Western	Latin Western
	Italian			Duke/Duchess Doge/Dogaressa ^[2]
	Lombard			Duke/Duchess Prince/Princess (Principality) ^[4] Doge/Dogaressa ^[2]
	Roman	Baro/Baronissa (Castrum) Magister/Magistra ^[2]	Comes/Comitissa (County) Praefect ^[2]	Dux/Ducissa (Duchy) Tribune ^[2]	Rex/Regina (Regnum) Consul (League) ^[2]	Imperator/Imperatrix (Imperium) Princeps/Princess (Grand Republic) ^[2]
	Sardinian	Curadore/Curadora (Curadoria)	Judike/Judesa (Judicadu)	Archon/Archonesa (Archonate) Doge/Dogaressa ^[2]	King/Queen Serene Doge/Serene Dogaressa ^[2]	Emperor/Empress
	Sicilian	Baron/Baroness	Count/Countess	Duke/Duchess Doge/Dogaressa ^[2]	King/Queen Serene Doge/Serene Dogaressa ^[2]	Emperor/Empress
Magyar	Hungarian	Baron/Baroness	Count/Countess	Duke/Duchess	King/Queen	High King/High Queen	Knight	Western	Mongol	Mongol	Magyar Steppe
Magyar	Mogyër	Baron/Baroness	Count/Countess	Prince/Princess (Principality)	Grand Prince/Grand Princess (Grand Principality)	High King/High Queen	Knight	Western	Mongol	Mongol	Magyar Steppe
Mongolic	Buryat	Baron/Baroness	Count/Countess	Duke/Duchess	Khan/Khanum (Khanate)	Khagan/Khatun (Khaganate)	Baghatur	Indian	Mongol	Mongol	Mongol Steppe
	Jurchen
	Kerait
	Khitan
	Mongol	Taishi
	Naiman	Baron/Baroness
	Oirat
	Tuyuhun
North Germanic	Danish	Baron/Baroness	Count/Countess	Duke/Duchess Petty King/Petty Queen (Petty Kingdom) ^[4]	King/Queen	Emperor/Empress	Champion	Western	Northern	Northern	Western
	Norse	Þegn	Jarl (Jarldom)
	Norwegian	Baron/Baroness	Count/Countess
	Swedish	Baron/Baroness	Count/Countess
Qiangic	Qiang	Baron/Baroness	Count/Countess	Duke/Duchess	King/Queen	Emperor/Empress	Knight	Indian	Mongol	Mongol	Indian
Qiangic	Tangut	Baron/Baroness	Count/Countess	Duke/Duchess	King/Queen	Emperor/Empress	Knight	Indian	Mongol	Mongol	Indian
Sahelian	Bozo	Horo/Hora	Debegume/Debeguma	Nyanyagume/Nyanyaguma	Maghan/Magha	Kaya Magha	Knight	Mena	African	Sub-Saharan	West-African
	Mossi
	Qaw
	Songhai
	Soninke
	Sorko
Senegambian	Pulaar	Tigui/Tigua	Geer/Geera	Damel/Damela	Simbago/Simbaga	Soma	Knight	Mena	African	Sub-Saharan	West-African
	Serer
	Wolof
South Slavic	Bosnian	Baron/Baroness	Count/Countess	Ban (Banate)	King/Queen	Emperor/Empress	Knight	Mediterranean	Byzantine	Eastern	South Slavic Western
	Bulgarian			Duke/Duchess
	Croatian			Ban (Banate)
	Serbian			Duke/Duchess
	Vlach			Duke/Duchess
Tibetan	Bodpa	Baron/Baroness	Ngapo/Ngamo (County)	Prabhu/Mahila (Duchy/Petty Kingdom) ^[10]	Gyalpo/Gyelpo (Gyalpo)	Tsenpo/Maharani (Empire)	Knight	Indian	Mongol	Mongol	Tibetan
	Kirati
	Lhomon
	Sumpa
	Tsangpa
	Zhangzhung
Turkic	Avar	Baron/Baroness	Count/Countess	Duke/Duchess	Khan/Khanum (Khanate)	Khagan/Khatun (Khaganate)	Baghatur	Indian	Mongol	Mongol	Turkic Steppe
	Bashkir
	Bolghar
	Chuvash
	Cuman
	Karluk
	Khazar
	Kimek
	Kipchak
	Kirghiz
	Laktan
	Oghuz	Agha/Hanim (Timariot) ^[8]	Beg/Begum (Beylik) ^[8]	Atabeg/Atabegum (Atabegate) ^[8]	Sultan/Sultana (Sultanate) ^[8]	Sultan al-Muazzam/Sultana al-Muazzama (Empire) ^[8]
	Öngüd	Baron/Baroness	Count/Countess	Duke/Duchess	Khan/Khanum (Khanate)	Khagan/Khatun (Khaganate)
	Pecheneg
	Shatuo
	Uriankhai
	Uyghur				Idiqut/Khanum (Khanate)
	Yughur				Khan/Khanum (Khanate)
Ugro-Permian	Bjarmian	Baron/Baroness	Count/Countess	Duke/Duchess	King/Queen	Emperor/Empress	Knight	Western	Northern	Northern	Ugro-Permian Steppe
	Ostyak
	Permian
Volga-Finnic	Mari	Baron/Baroness	Count/Countess	Duke/Duchess	King/Queen	Emperor/Empress	Knight	Western	Northern	Northern	Volga-Finnic Steppe
	Merya
	Meshchera
	Mordvin
	Muroma
West Germanic	Anglo-Saxon	Thane Reeve (Borough) ^[2]	Earl/Countess (Earldom) Sheriff (Shire) ^[2]	Duke/Duchess Petty King/Petty Queen (Petty Kingdom) ^[4]	King/Queen	Emperor/Empress	Knight	Western	Western	Western	Western
	English	Baron/Baroness	Earl/Countess (Earldom)
	Old Saxon	Baron/Baroness	Count/Countess
	Scots	Thane Provost (Burgh) ^[2]	Earl/Countess (Earldom) Lord Provost/Lady Provost ^[2]
West Slavic	Czech	Baron/Baroness	Count/Countess	Duke/Duchess	King/Queen	Emperor/Empress	Knight	Western	Western	Eastern	West Slavic Western
	Polabian
	Polish
	Pomeranian
	Slovien
Yoruba	Edo	Uzama	Nana	Ajapada	Oba	Alafin	Knight	Mena	African	Sub-Saharan	Central African
	Ewe
	Igbo
	Yoruba

Culture splits[edit]

The following cultures will divide into multiple small cultures once certain time periods are reached. A player character will get the option to cancel the culture split if it controls 80% of the counties with the original culture.

Original Culture	Period	Region	New Cultures	Condition
Visigothic	850-920	Iberia Southern France	Andalusian	County is Muslim
			Catalan	County is in Catalonia
			Occitan	County is in Southern France
			Asturleonese	County is in Asturia or Leon
			Aragonese	County is in Aragon
			Galician	County is in Galicia or Portugal
			Castilian	County is in Iberia
Anglo-Saxon	850-950	Scotland	Scots	Always
Norse	950-990	Northern Europe	Danish	County is in Denmark
			Norwegian	County is in Norway
			Swedish	County is in Northern Europe

Emergent cultures[edit]

The following cultures will emerge if certain conditions are met and are not directly influenced by the player.

Emergent Culture	Region	Condition
Sicilian	Southern Italy	County is in Southern Italy

Creatable cultures[edit]

The following cultures need to be created through decisions before they can be played.

New Culture	Decision	Conditions
English	Embrace English Culture	Adult Own the Kingdom of England title Realm capital is in Kingdom of England Frankish culture group
Norman (in 867)	Establish Norman Culture	At peace Own and fully control the Duchy of Neustria Norse culture At least one county de jure part of Duchy of Neustria has French culture Norman culture doesn't exist
Portuguese	Form Portugal	Independent Control Algarve, Beja, Coimbra and Portucale Iberian culture group
Outremer	Embrace Outremer Culture	Frankish culture group Character or liege follows a Christian faith Form the Outremer Empire decision Realm capital is in the region of Africa, Middle-East or Persia One of the following: Own the Empire on Outremer title Liege owns the Empire on Outremer title Liege belongs to the Outremer culture Level of Fame is at least Exalted among Men Roman culture
Hungarian (in 867)	Promote Christian Settlements	Adult Independent At peace Magyar culture group Realm capital has a Magyar culture Faith has the Ecumenism doctrine At least 2 neighbor independent rulers are Christian Owns Kingdom of Hungary or Empire of Carpathia Revive Táltosism Starting Year is 1066

References[edit]

↑ forum:1416565/page-2#post-26861541 Mruuh's post in "How do I switch culture for my character?" thread
↑ ^2.00 ^2.01 ^2.02 ^2.03 ^2.04 ^2.05 ^2.06 ^2.07 ^2.08 ^2.09 ^2.10 ^2.11 ^2.12 ^2.13 ^2.14 ^2.15 ^2.16 ^2.17 ^2.18 ^2.19 ^2.20 ^2.21 ^2.22 (if republic)
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 ^3.2 ^3.3 ^3.4 ^3.5 ^3.6 (if Islamic)
↑ ^4.00 ^4.01 ^4.02 ^4.03 ^4.04 ^4.05 ^4.06 ^4.07 ^4.08 ^4.09 ^4.10 ^4.11 (if independent)
↑ ^5.0 ^5.1 ^5.2 (if tribal)
↑ (if independent or tribal)
↑ ^7.0 ^7.1 ^7.2 (if independent female)
↑ ^8.0 ^8.1 ^8.2 ^8.3 ^8.4 ^8.5 ^8.6 (if feudal or clan)
↑ ^9.0 ^9.1 ^9.2 ^9.3 ^9.4 (if clan)
↑ Only called petty kingdom if independent.

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[1] rum:1416565/page-2#post-26861541 Mruuh's post in "How do I switch culture for my character?" thread

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[clan-9] 9.0 ^9.1 ^9.2 ^9.3 ^9.4 (if clan)

[10] Only called petty kingdom if independent.

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