Council
The council is a group of 6 specialized Vassal or Courtier characters that help a landed character (Count-ranked and higher) rule their realm. Each council member is able to perform one task at a time. If a Councilor is also a Commander, it cannot lead troops while assigned to a task. A Councilor gains Lifestyle Experience for their position's primary skill as well as other ancillary benefits.
The Spouse position can be filled by either an unlanded spouse or one who's a direct vassal. If the Faith has the Polygamous Marriage Type Doctrine, the Primary Spouse will fill the position. It is possible to switch the Primary Spouse.
The Court Chaplain can only be changed if the liege's faith has the Revocable Clerical Appointment doctrine. Faiths with the Theocratic doctrine have a Realm Priest instead of Court Chaplain. Realm Priests Lease 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 the same way Clan vassals do; if they hold a negative Opinion of the Liege, they will not provide any. A higher opinion will provide a higher amount of Taxes, up to 50% at 50 opinion. Realm Priests provide all their Taxes and Levies regardless of
Opinion if their liege has a
Strong Hook on them.
Characters cannot be appointed Councilors if they have the Incapable trait. In addition a character with the
Excommunicated trait cannot be appointed Court Chaplain or Realm Priest if faith has the Communion tenet unless the ruler has the same trait.
Council task[edit | edit source]
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. Moreover, all tasks are performed 20% more efficiently if the councilor is a friend of the ruler, and best friends perform even better with a 30% bonus. Likewise, all tasks are performed less efficiently if the councilor is rival (-20%) of the ruler, or worse, a nemesis (-30%).
For the spouse tasks, note that they default to rounding down to the nearest whole number after taking 20% and 50% respectively. If the ruler has the Martial lifestyle perk Loyalty and Respect, however, it not only increases the spouse's contribution to 25% and 62.5% respectively, it also rounds up rather than down. For a spouse with 14 Diplomacy assigned to Assist Ruler, this means a change from 2.8 rounded down to 2, to 3.5 rounded up to 4, a doubling of the bonus.
Benefits from being a councilor[edit | edit source]
Each councilor will gain various benefits depending on both the exact position and the title rank of its liege.
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