
Any Holy Orders existing in the catholic faith automatically switch as well, they kind of go where the Orthodox is. You can play as a Cathar, and then if you manage to reduce the Catholic provinces enough, Catharism will become the new mainline. The fun thing is that the Heresy can actually take over and become the new’ Orthodox’ if it has more provinces than the mother religion. For example, the Cathar’s can have female priests, which is historically accurate, and many of the heresies have a religious head where appropriate. Heresies have also been revised, mainly so that they are more interesting and different from the mainline of the religion. It’s all events based, and it plays more to the RPG part of the game. You can choose where you want to go and then stuff will happen, you might make some friends. Your character can go on an adventure to one of the holy places of Europe – Canterbury, Santiago, Rome, Jerusalem and Constantinople. Pilgrimages also provide a new adventure for your character to go on – similar to the Haj that Islamic characters get to go on, which was introduced in Sword of Islam. There are some other things associated with this bit as well – if you control a Cardinal, and someone wants to excommunicate you and they control no Cardinals, then you’re basically immune to that.” That means you can call in favours from the Pope, but that costs opinion – he’ll like you a little bit less each time you make a request, so you can’t endlessly exploit it.
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Basically he’ll have plus 200 opinion of you. If you do that, he’s going to be grateful to you, and he’ll have a special bond with you. “There are many advantages to having a Pope from your realm, to have one of your bishops elected Pope. Nine Cardinals appointed by the Pope elect who becomes the new Pope, and this is all done through a new interface, and you can influence this process by spending money in campaign funds, and getting one of your own Clergy into the College. There’s quite a few major additions or changes to Crusader Kings 2, most notably the inclusion of the ‘College of Cardinals’, which changes and governs how a new Pope is elected. They are going to pertain to things like relics being found, Monks discussing theology, Sainthood, there’s a Joan of Arc type thing.” it’s probably going to be more events than we’ve added in any other expansion, I think. “The whole focus is of course on the three Abrahamic faiths, and we’ve added a whole lot of flavour events, Easter egg events, events of all kinds.

Henrik himself actually see this expansion more like the fifth expansion of Phase One, rather than the first of Phase Two. In Part Two, let’s look at Sons of Abraham itself in more detail, what it brings to the table, and what that could mean going forward. The major expansions include: Way of Life (patch 2.3), Horse Lords (patch 2.4) and Conclave (patch 2.In Part One of our Two-part feature on Crusader Kings II ‘Phase Two’, we talked to Henrik about their DLC plan for the future, past and present, and what their thinking is behind it.
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*Note: as of patch 2.5.2, 10 major expansions have been released, as well as more DLC for them. As of patch 2.2 there are 7 main expansions, plus 36 pieces of smaller DLC. DLC for Crusader Kings II includes portrait packs, unit packs, song packs, shield packs, and others. DLC is smaller in scope, and usually lower in price. Expansions are larger add-ons, and are generally more expensive - these add a considerable number of new features to the game which can offer completely new ways to play. Expansions and Downloadable Content (DLC) comprise purchasable add-ons for Crusader Kings II which enhance or extend the game experience.
