Christianity Mod r1.9.0

Premise

In its early history the Catholic Church was more heavily influenced by women such as Mary Magdalene. As a result, equality is the norm for Catholics. Women can hold council positions and lead armies without restriction, and may enter the clergy. This Church’s views on sex evolved in the reverse of its historical counterpart: lust is a virtue, and chastity is one of the seven deadly sins.

Whores are held in high esteem, and clergywomen are very likely to be whores. Incest is accepted as normal, but doesn’t have the Zoroastrian divine blood belief. Concubines are also allowed. Adultery is looked on as generally good because it shows a woman’s desirability, but rulers may choose to discourage it in their wives to avoid succession problems.

Installation

To install this mod, follow these steps:
1. Open your “Documents” folder.
2. Locate the “Paradox Interactive” folder within your “Documents” folder and open
it.
3. Locate the “Crusader Kings II” folder within the “Paradox Interactive” folder
and open it.
4. Locate the “mod” folder within the “Paradox Interactive” folder and open it.
5. Copy the “Christianity Mod” folder and the “Christianity Mod.mod” file
located in the same folder as this readme to the “mod” folder.

You will now see it in the list of mods when you run Crusader Kings II.

Game Mechanic Changes

I greatly reduced the likelihood of getting the inbred trait, as in real life the danger of inbreeding comes from harmful recessive traits, which is already handled by normal inheritable trait mechanics. The remaining low probability simulates multiple bad recessive traits that wouldn’t individually merit a game trait eventually adding up.

I lowered the age of marriage to 12, as it was in medieval Europe, because I’m not selling this and therefore don’t need to give lip service to Victorian era beliefs. The age of adulthood for purposes of guardianship and regency ending is currently set at 16, as the idea of education lasting until 16 is deeply embedded in the game.

Absolute Cognatic succession law is available for all Catholics, even tribes. The mod uses custom history files to make about 75% of Catholic titles use it, while the remaining 25% stick with their original laws. The affected titles may start with female rulers. Note that West Francia and Lombardy retain their original rulers and succession laws so as not to interfere with the Charlemagne events, and Venice and Amalfi are also unaffected because merchant republics are hardcoded to be ruled by men.

Note that the status of women laws, introduced in Conclave, are redundant for Catholics who are effectively equivalent to the highest level at all times. Consequently that law will not be visible for Catholic rulers. The Tolerance tech level requirements for improving the status of women have been lowered to reflect the influence of the numerous Catholics.

Compatibility

This mod requires version 3.0.1.1 and the expansions other than Sunset Invasion. It works fine with the Your Personal Castle mod, which is recommended.

The EUIV converter works fine for saves created with this mod.

This mod is not compatible with the CK2 Plus mod as it modifies religion to be more historical, which is the opposite of what this mod does with religion.

Includes

This mod was inspired by and is derived from nadamod, which in turn uses VIET, Your Personal Castle, and Duel Engine. Nadamod also used a custom map and a law mod which are not included here. I’ve separated out the files from Your Personal Castle as well–anyone wishing to use that mod should install the regular released version. As of version 1.6 of this mod I’ve removed the Duel Engine files as well. Duel Engine stopped working a while ago, and is no longer being supported, so the files were just taking up space but not actually getting used.

History Generator

The CK2history.py file included in this package is a Python script written by MeMe which is used to generate this mod’s custom history files. It’s included as a bonus for user with enough of a programming background to install Python and edit the variables at the beginning of the script. I’m not providing any support for it.

Known Bugs

Free investiture is hardcoded to only allow men to be nominated as
successors. This is a known limitation which Paradox will hopefully change.
Some characters are created as adults by the game engine and can’t be modded
directly. The event that gives women their curves will trigger for women created
this way eventually, but it can take up to six months. This is for performance
reasons, and I may adjust the frequency later.
A handful of historical female rulers will have wives instead of husbands.
This is a limitation of the current version of the script used to generate new
history files.