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Royal Mistress
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11 Apr, 2022 @ 9:10am
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Royal Mistress

Description
What is this mod?
Mod to add a Royal Paramour court position and events, for rulers of Kingdoms or higher.

What is a Paramour?
Historically rulers would take a lover outside of their marriage, most commonly known as a 'mistress'. A ruler could have multiple mistress but it was common to have a 'main' mistress that enjoyed a high level of prestige and influence over the king. In France, the Chief Royal Mistress was even a semi official court position starting in the 16th century. A paramour is a more gender inclusive term for mistress.

Fun fact: Kings took paramours even if they loved their Queens out of sheer obligation, it was that expected of them!

What features does this mod currently have?
- Paramour court position for monarchs and higher
- Female paramour, male ruler pregnancy event
- No secret lover or fornicator/adulterer traits applied to paramours and their rulers
- Paramour and ruler will not be asked to break up, unless spouse is also ruler's lover
- Faith based opinion penalties that scale based on how scandalous your paramour is
- Piety penalty when taking paramour, if your faith doesn't accept adultery
- Some rulers may not be able to take paramours at all based on their personality, or faith.
- Married paramours
- Paramour de-stress tasks, that fire events that will lower your stress

Please check the update notes for new features

Who can be a paramour?
Any unlanded lover or soulmate of any gender in your realm can potentially become your Paramour, so your relationship will be public without the fear of being blackmailed or asked to break up. Married characters may also become your mistress, with some extra events from their grumpy spouse.

There should be no infidelity or blackmail events coming up in regards to your Paramour being your lover (you will still get the sodomite trait if it applies), but if there are please let me know.

Known Bugs/Missing Features
- If you land your bastard, the mother will go to their court. Your paramour will lose their court position if they leave your court, so you have to invite them back.
- You may still get adultery/sodomite traits depending on what event fires. I'll probably be slow to fix this, in favour of adding other features
- Female ruler with male paramour pregnancy events don't exist just yet, it's tricky to navigate so may take a while too.
- Pregnant paramours will always tell you if they're pregnant. This may change so they may announce the pregnancy themselves or abort
- Bastards of married paramours with a landed spouse stay in the paramour's spouses court. You can still arrange marriages and stuff for them but yeah they're kinda stuck
- Currently only homosexuality is the only indicator if a paramour is scandalous or not, sinful traits based on your faith in the future will contribute to it
- Married paramours who are set aside stay in your court instead of going back to their partners
- AI may not keep/take paramours consistently.
Popular Discussions View All (4)
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26 Mar @ 6:26pm
What features do you want to see in the next update?
chuchu
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21 Mar, 2023 @ 7:09am
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28 Apr, 2022 @ 2:47pm
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137 Comments
chuchu  [author] 23 Aug @ 10:20pm 
thanks for the nice comment, I'm glad that you're enjoying it! I have added 1 task for the position, it's the "destress with" task (or something like that). it adds events that randomly fire that can reduce your character's stress by a pretty significant amount. it should have a flower icon if you missed it

I also had plans to add a 'socialise' task that will have the mistress raise your courtier's opinion of you, give you more general popularity, and gossip for you to find secrets/boost your schemes but it was more work than I thought so I left it out. Whenever I finish the next update I'll be sure to add that and some other features
kyle4151 23 Aug @ 8:55am 
I absolutely love this mod, it adds such nice flavor to the game. Have you considered adding tasks like the other court positions?
Elirian 20 Aug @ 7:14am 
thanks for the update :steamhappy:
HeirandtheSpare 19 Aug @ 7:13pm 
Yeah, after you said that I figured. Thank you!
chuchu  [author] 19 Aug @ 7:12pm 
If that's the case I'll look into how I can make that happen. I haven't played ck3 in a while so I wasn't really aware of what updates happened
HeirandtheSpare 19 Aug @ 7:08pm 
@Chuchu, you can in fact, give landed characters court positions now. You were always able to give them positions such as Master of the Horse and Master of the Hunt, as well as a few others. With the most recent update, you can now give landed characters most any position. So, I was hoping that this would align with the most recent update.
chuchu  [author] 19 Aug @ 7:04pm 
Do you mean if you can take landed characters as a paramour? Unfortunately not as they would need to be able to take a court position, if they're landed they wouldn't be able to go to your court since they're busy running theirs
HeirandtheSpare 19 Aug @ 7:14am 
Is it possible to make this mod available to landed characters too?
chuchu  [author] 19 Aug @ 5:25am 
Thanks all for being patient, mod is now 1.16 ready with a minor new feature (mistress tasks!)
Unstable Energy 9 Jun @ 12:51am 
Possible to get a update @chuchu?