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Traditional Tenets

Updates
05.23.2025 - Updated for 1.16.2.1.

04.28.2025 - Updated for 1.16.0.

• For the relationships doctrine category, faiths that accept both female and male adultery will now start with Polyamory. All other faiths still start with Holy Matrimony.

03.12.2025 - Updated for 1.15.0.

Description
This is an expansion of my Tenets to Doctrines mod, which in addition to changing certain Tenets into Doctrines, adds an assortment of new Tenets which are specific to particular religions. Also added an additional game rule that changes the doctrines and tenets of religions to include these new tenets when the AI manages to reform a pagan faith (this happens rarely, but it can happen). This option is enabled by default, but you can disable it if you prefer. You can also choose to start the game with all of these tenets integrated into unreformed pagan faiths.

Many of the tenets were inspired by the special doctrines from Crusader Kings 2's Holy Fury expansion. While I use them for inspiration, they are not one-to-one conversions. For example, the Stability doctrine allowed you to spend Piety to improve the skills of courtiers, and this feature carried over to doctrines like Children of Perun. Instead I chose to integrate skill improvements into various doctrines in other ways.

In addition to combining tenets to make them feel more powerful and impactful, this mod also aims to make various religions feel more distinct from each other. Keep in mind these tenets are not available on the base faiths, they are intended to be added by reforming the faith (except when using the game rule noted above).

Features (v1.0.9)

• Integrates Tenets to Doctrines (see above).
  
• Pagan faiths have access to new Tenets. All but one of these tenets are locked to one or two specific religions. They often combine elements of one or two tenets with each other, or with new benefits.
  
• Normally, to unlock these tenets, you must reform the faith and select them when choosing new tenets for the reformed faith. However, a game rule can add them from the start. You can also control whether or not the AI will gain these tenets if they reform a pagan faith using the game rule.
  
• These tenets may unlock new decisions, buildings, and traits.
  
• A detailed list of features, including a list of the new tenets and what religions can choose them, can be found here here[docs.google.com]. Also contains detailed compatibility information.

Compatibility
Unlikely to be compatible with other mods that affect doctrine or tenet selection, or add new tenets. See above link for more compatibility information, including which files and database entries are overwritten.

Feedback
Please report any bugs, typos, or oddities you may encounter. Commentary on flavor/balance is also appreciated.

Un"official" translations
For Chinese

My Other Mods
Medieval Matriarchs, for those who like the idea of playing a female and/or lesbian dominated realm/dynasty.

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