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Interaction · Religious actions

Reform Order

No costBy God AloneAccepted automatically in some cases; otherwise the AI weighs it

As patron, compel the recipient to reform the Holy Order you patronise, binding it to one of your Personal Tenets and to your own Rite

What you need

You

To send it

  • Is not incapable
  • You must have at least one Personal Tenet to impose or you must follow a different Rite than the Monastic Order
  • One of these

    • Select one of your Personal Tenets for the order to adopt
    • or

      The target’s rite is not your
  • Also needed: not imprisoned

To see it in the menu

  • Is an Adult
  • Any patroned holy order:
    • leader = scope:recipient

The character you target

  • Is not incapable
  • Also needed: not imprisoned

Reform Order is a religious character interaction in Crusader Kings III. You need: Is not imprisoned, Is not incapable, You must have at least one Personal Tenet to impose or you must follow a different Rite than the Monastic Order and 1 more. The character you target needs: Is not imprisoned and Is not incapable. Accepted automatically in some cases; otherwise the AI weighs it. Reasons the AI weighs include The recipient is Humble (+25), The recipient is Ambitious (-25) and The recipient is Stubborn (-25). It needs By God Alone. Patch 1.20.1.2, from game/common/character_interactions/pam_interactions.txt.

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Quick answers (2)
What are the requirements for Reform Order in CK3?
You: Is not imprisoned, Is not incapable, You must have at least one Personal Tenet to impose or you must follow a different Rite than the Monastic Order and one of: Select one of your Personal Tenets for the order to adopt / The target’s rite is not your. The character you target: Is not imprisoned and Is not incapable. (patch 1.20.1.2)
How do I get the AI to accept Reform Order?
Accepted automatically in some cases; otherwise the AI weighs it. Its reasons: The recipient is Humble +25, The recipient is Ambitious -25 and The recipient is Stubborn -25.

Will they accept?

Accepted automatically when:

  • … is your puppet and cannot refuse

Otherwise the AI adds these up and accepts above zero. Reasons in italics are the script's, with no label in the game.

ReasonAmount
Base-25
Their opinion of you × 0.5varies
The recipient is Humble
when
+25
The recipient is Ambitious
when
-25
The recipient is Stubborn
when
-25
Acceptance (ai_accept) (26 lines of game script)
base = -25
opinion_modifier = {
	opinion_target = scope:actor
	multiplier = 0.5
}
modifier = {
	add = 25
	scope:recipient = {
		has_trait = humble
	}
	desc = pam_reform_order_humble_reason
}
modifier = {
	add = -25
	scope:recipient = {
		has_trait = ambitious
	}
	desc = pam_reform_order_ambitious_reason
}
modifier = {
	add = -25
	scope:recipient = {
		has_trait = stubborn
	}
	desc = pam_reform_order_stubborn_reason
}

As written in game/common/character_interactions/pam_interactions.txt.

What happens

If they accept

  • The character you target:
    • holy_order = { … }
    • If

      a check the game hides

      Then

      • If

        • NOT = { has_personal_tenet = scope:pam_selected_interaction_tenet }

        Then

        • If

          • free_personal_tenet_slots = 0

          Then

          • One random personal tenet › The tenet char:
            • remove_personal_tenet = prev
        • set_personal_tenet = scope:pam_selected_interaction_tenet
      • … monastic Courtiers also adopt it as a Personal Tenet
    • If

      a check the game hides

      Then

      • If

        • NOT = { rite = scope:pam_reform_order_rite }

        Then

        • set_character_rite = scope:pam_reform_order_rite
      • … monastic Courtiers also adopt …

Options when sending

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  • Communion …(…)
  • Endura …(…)
  • Divine Marriage …(…)
  • Gnosticism …(…)
  • Mendicant Preaching …(…)
  • Pacifism …(…)
  • Ecclesiarchy …(…)
  • Unrelenting Faith …(…)
  • Vows of Poverty …(…)
  • Pastoral Isolation …(…)
  • Adaptability …(…)
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  • Reincarnation …(…)
  • Religious Law …(…)
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  • Sanctioned False Conversions …(…)
  • Taxation of Nonbelievers …(…)
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  • Patron Gods …(…)
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  • Inner Journey …(…)
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  • Hedonism …(…)
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  • Megalithic Constructions …(…)
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  • Communal Possessions …(…)
  • Righteous Rebirth …(…)
  • Mind Without Mind …(…)
  • Sacred Mountains …(…)
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  • Cranial Trophies …(…)
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  • Benevolent Governance …(…)
  • Filial Piety …(…)
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  • Sacred Destruction …(…)
  • Preservation …(…)
  • Takamin …(…)
  • Peace of God …(…)
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  • Transubstantiation …(…)
  • To Work Is to Pray …(…)
  • Mother of God …(…)
  • Simony …(…)
  • Monophysitism …(…)
  • Fervent Proselytism …(…)
  • Purgatory …(…)
  • Be Fruitful and Multiply …(…)
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  • Sacrament of Confession …(…)
  • Original Sin …(…)
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  • Soldiery of Christ …(…)
  • Charity …(…)
  • Scholasticism …(…)
  • Adoptionism …(…)
  • Love Thy Neighbour …(…)
  • Divine Liturgy …(…)
  • Miaphysitism …(…)
  • Hesychasm …(…)
  • Anachoresis …(…)
  • Mortification of the Flesh …(…)
  • Holy Myron …(…)
  • Khachkars …(…)

• the game's own tooltip text · ◦ our reading of the script line · code the script where neither exists

Who can use it and sees it (is_available, is_shown) (7 lines of game script)
is_available = has_pam_dlc_trigger = yes
is_adult = yes
is_shown = scope:actor = {
	any_patroned_holy_order = {
		leader = scope:recipient
	}
}

As written in game/common/character_interactions/pam_interactions.txt.

Can be sent when (is_valid…) (28 lines of game script)
scope:actor = {
	is_imprisoned = no
	is_incapable = no
}
scope:recipient = {
	is_imprisoned = no
	is_incapable = no
}
custom_tooltip = {
	text = pam_reform_order_is_valid_showing_failures_only_tt
	scope:actor = {
		OR = {
			rite != scope:recipient.rite
			any_personal_tenet = {
				NOT = {
					scope:recipient.holy_order.order_tenet ?= this
				}
			}
		}
	}
}
OR = {
	custom_tooltip = {
		text = pam_reform_order_select_tenet_tt
		pam_evangelize_personal_tenet_send_option_selected_trigger = yes
	}
	scope:recipient.rite != scope:actor.rite
}

As written in game/common/character_interactions/pam_interactions.txt.

Effects (on_send, on_accept, on_decline) (1 line of game script)
on_accept = pam_reform_order_effect = yes

As written in game/common/character_interactions/pam_interactions.txt.

Category
Religious actions
Again on the same character
after 5 years
DLC
By God Alone
In the menu
main list
ID
pam_reform_order_interaction

Source: game/common/character_interactions/pam_interactions.txt and the English localisation, Crusader Kings III 1.20.1.2. “You” is the character who sends it (scope:actor, or a puppet acting for you); “the character you target” is the recipient.

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