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Chosen Messiah Trait

Chosen Messiah Trait

A simple mod that adds a new trait for species which grant the "Chosen One" trait on the current ruler.

There are indeed many similar mods on the workshop that provide variety ways to grant your ruler immortality, but most of them must cost a civic slot or even have to cost the origin. And the rest mods that adding immortal traits are granting immortality to not only rulers, but also all other leaders, which does not meet my needs. That's why I made this mod.

◆ This is a trait for species, so you could make your ruler immortal while being free to choose any other civics or origins.
◆ Only your current ruler will get the "Chosen One" trait. Neither other leaders nor the next new ruler (if current one is dead by accident) can benefit from it.
◆ You can still get another "Chosen One" trait from "The Shroud" normally. Only one "Chosen One" leader can exist at one time.
◆ This trait costs 0 and does not occupy trait picks limit. (It is not balanced, but mainly for making ruler immortal)
◆ This trait cannot be obtained by machine species. (Their ruler is already immortal and should not have psi power)
◆ This trait cannot be obtained by hive mind species. (Their ruler is already immortal)
◆ This trait cannot be removed or added through Gene Tailoring.
◆ This trait will not be added during hybridization.
◆ This trait can be used in pre-designed AI empires, but will not be generated randomly. (Actually it grants the "Chosen One" trait right at the beginning of a game, so adding it by console commands in the middle of a game have no effects)
◆ This trait is only suggested using in Autocratic Government forms, otherwise the "Chosen One" trait might be lost if the current ruler has lost the ruler election. (This is probably an old bug in vanilla game, although the former starting ruler will regain the Chosen One trait if he/she is re-elected as next ruler, he/she might die of age while being a mortal non-ruler) After Stellaris 3.8 update, the Chosen One trait will now automatically shift itself according to the leader's type, so it won't be lost during the election anymore.

This mod does not modify any vanilla files, it should be compatible with any mod.

Update 2023/01/13
Chosen Messiah Trait (NDSE)
(NDSE is short for "No Divine Sovereign Event")
◆ A new alternative version of Chosen Messiah trait has been added.
◆ This alternative trait will prevent the Divine Sovereign Event from triggering on the specific empire.
◆ This setting is mainly useful for pre-designed AI empires, if you don't want these AI empires to automatically shift themselves into new random-named imperial empires at the game's early time because of the Chosen One ruler.
◆ The NDSE version of Chosen Messiah trait is mutually exclusive with the original one, you can only pick one of them for each specie, while the original Chosen Messiah trait will still provide you the access to the Divine Sovereign event.

Update 2025/02/15
Chosen Messiah Trait (+DSC)
(+DSC is short for "Add Divine Sovereign Civic")
◆ A new alternative version of Chosen Messiah trait has been added.
◆ This alternative trait will grant the specific empire with the Divine Sovereign Civic automatically at the beginning of the game.
◆ This setting is useful if you want player's empire or pre-designed AI empires to directly acquire the Divine Sovereign Civic at the beginning of the game, and without changing the empire's name / authority / ethic.
◆ *Warning* This setting is cheating, as unlike the normal Divine Sovereign event, this method will neither force the empire to be changed to Imperial Authority, nor will it shift any Governing Ethic.
◆ The +DSC version of Chosen Messiah trait is mutually exclusive with the other two version of Chosen Messiah trait, you can only pick one of them for each specie, while the original Chosen Messiah trait will still provide you the access to the *vanilla* Divine Sovereign event.

Update 2025/09/23
Due to Machine & Hivemind empires now can get access to The Shroud and Chosen One trait after DLC Shadows of the Shroud, all three Chosen Messiah Trait now can be obtained by Machine & Hivemind empires.

Note:
◆ Gestalt empires (Hivemind and Gestalt Machine) cannot trigger Divine Sovereign Event in vanilla gameplay, thus there is no need to choose NDSE version of Chosen Messiah Trait for them to prevent Divine Sovereign Event.
◆ Gestalt empires (Hivemind and Gestalt Machine) cannot obtain Divine Sovereign Civic in vanilla gameplay, but by using +DSC version of Chosen Messiah Trait, player can forcibly grant Divine Sovereign Civic to these empires. This will not cause direct crash or obvious bug, but might lead to unpredictable results, thus please use it at your own risk.
◆ Non-Gestalt Machine empire is a particular case, it can get access to both Divine Sovereign Event and Divine Sovereign Civic, just like normal empires, thus both NDSE and +DSC version of Chosen Messiah Trait is not meaningless for this type of empire.
◆ Robot empires now are allowed to obtain all three Chosen Messiah Trait too, but player cannot start the game with a robot empire directly in vanilla gameplay, unless using some other mods to achieve this, thus please be careful when use Chosen Messiah Trait on modded starting robot empires.
ps. the aforementioned Machine and Robot are not of the same species, please do not confuse them.