The Imperial Court Societies

This mod is a set of nearly identical societies aimed at making empires more flavorful and interesting. When established the society can only be seen and joined by members of that empire, but they impact the entire realm regardless of any vassal’s membership.

There are a total of 8 different types, split into 4 generic courts, and 4 unique courts.
Unique courts are either available on game start (can be configured with separate game rules) or created via decision later, they are:

• Imperial Court of the Byzantine Empire
• Imperial Court of the Holy Roman Empire
• Imperial Court of the Arabian Empire
• Imperial Court of the Roman Empire

Generic courts work a bit differently, they have to be established via a decision by an empire that doesn’t have an unique court attached. Each generic court type has 3 "slots", so in theory yet extremely unlikely case you could have 12 generic courts active at once. Generic courts are classified as the following:

• Christian and Jewish Courts
• Muslim and Zoroastrian Courts
• Pagan Courts
• Eastern Courts

A generic court’s type cannot be changed unless it is completely dismantled then re-established by a character of a different religion.

There are special decisions for forming certain empires if you are already an emperor and have a Imperial Court active. You MUST use these instead of the vanilla decisions, otherwise things will not behave correctly. The decisions will only appear if they are supposed to, so if nothing is there then you’re fine.

1. Society Influence plays a very big role here. Alongside other effects, an Imperial Court with dangerously high influence may decide to replace the current emperor with one of their own.
2. Monthly society currency gains are tied directly to the current Emperor and what he approves/disapproves of. It can also be increased by other relevant conditions, such as being purple born in the Byzantine Empire, or baptised for Christians.
3. The Emperor starts as the leader of the society, with the complete power to approve of promotions to rank 3 and mission assignment. Assigning missions will cost society currency and since that is the limiting factor, the emperor can assign Imperial Offices to rank 3 members to spread the administrative load.
4. Imperial Offices can be assigned by giving the appropriate honorary titles. There are a total of 5 offices, each in charge of a different part of missions. Office names vary with the society’s type.
   • Imperial Regent: This is a very special office, the holder will lead the Imperial Court in place of the emperor. Granting him most of the society leader’s powers. This can be used in order to join another society, or by AI emperors that decide to use it.
   • Imperial Seneschal: Assigns Stewardship related missions.
   • Imperial Marshal: Assigns Martial related missions and declares Imperial Conquests.
   • Imperial Lawkeeper: Assigns Diplomacy and Learning related missions.
   • Imperial Spymaster: Assigns Intrigue based missions.
5. An Imperial Capital will be designated when the society is formed. This holding will be used in various events and has access to 6 unique buildings. The current emperor will always be able to usurp it from a vassal, and it can only moved by a player decision.
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Imperial Courtier:

• The lowest rank, holds very little power.
• Power: Can donate money in exchange for society currency, the effect becomes weaker the higher your rank.
• Power: Can visit the Imperial Capital which leads to various events and outcomes depending on the unique buildings in the capital.

Administrator:

• Dynamic name based on society type.
• Power: Can introduce their children to the Imperial Court, allowing them to join the society and bypass some requirements.
• Power: If the society’s influence is high enough(60+), can change a vice-royalty into a regular hereditary duchy.

High Official:

• Dynamic name based on society type.
• Cannot be assigned missions.
• Power: Can force a lower ranking member to owe them a favor.
• Power: Can choose one of three special lifestyle traits.
• Ability: Able to hold Imperial Offices, granting a unique power depending on office and the ability to assign relevant missions.

Emperor/Regent:

• Dynamic name based on society type.
• Powers can only be used by the actual Emperor, a regent cannot use them.
• Power: Can make a vassal relinquish all non-dejure titles, be it via vassals or personally held. The vassal cannot refuse if society influence is low. (tldr: fixes bordergore)
• Ability: Assigns all Imperial Offices
• Ability: Can initially assign all missions

Probably the thing I worked on the most. Missions aren’t just generic "build this" or "pay this", they all have quite a few events attached to them and their results vary with the assigned character’s abilities and choices. I have more planned, but those will be for future updates.

1. Generic:
   • Undermine High Official: Given randomly by a rank 3 member targeting another rank 3 member they hate.
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2. Seneschal:
   • Improve Imperial Capital: The only way to build the special capital buildings.
   • Build Imperial Road: Builds an Imperial Road in a province increasing movement speed, supply, and trade.

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3. Marshal:
   • Imperial Conquest: Declares an Imperial Conquest on a foreign duchy, assigning a member to lead an army provided by the Imperial Court(alongside the member’s own army) to conquer the duchy.
   • Organize Military Drill: Improves all attending characters’ abilities.
   • Distribute Levy Recompense: Lowers the raised levy opinion penalty for the emperor’s vassals.
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4. Lawkeeper:
   • Convert to Emperor’s Culture: Pretty self explanatory.
   • Organize Festival: Reduces revolt risk in the festival’s location and surrounding provinces.
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5. Spymaster:
   • Investigate Secret Religions: Reveals characters’ secret religions and devil worshippers.
   • Infiltrate Court: Spawns a courtier in a foreign realm that is highly loyal to the Imperial Court.
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• Conclave is required. This is the only DLC you absolutely need, everything else just adds extras.
• You would need the relevant DLC to play as different religions.
• Legacy of Rome is needed for the Roman Court.
• Charlemagne is needed for Vice-Royalty power.
• Monks and Mystics is needed for Devil Worshippers to appear for a mission.
• Holy Fury unlocks some duel events.
• Vanilla Version: V3.1
• NOT savegame compatible
• NOT achievement compatible
• CK2+: Once it is out of Beta and provides a changelog
• HIP: HIP Release – Hotfix – 2019-04-23 (Furry6)
• NOT compatible with any other major overhaul or total conversion
• Any mod that adds custom sounds will conflict with this mod. Depending on how the mods load, either society music will be disabled or the conflicting mod’s sounds will be disabled. (Music mods are unaffected)

Hart: Society artwork and sound editing for new society music.
Additional music credits can be found in the mod files.
Special thanks to Farabi for all his help with fixing and improving the localisation files.

Please report any bugs in the bug reports discussion tab and mention if you are running Vanilla or HIP.
Suggestions are always welcome.

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