Piety and prestige.

Each character starts with 5 points in piety and prestige.

The way to gain piety and prestige is by holding a landed title, converting your populace, constructing churches and the like.


Ways to gain piety points:

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Build a church. +1 piety reward.

Build a chapel. +1 piety reward

Build an Abbey. +2 piety reward

Build a cathedral. +4 piety reward

Build a grand cathedral. +5 piety reward.

Convert your populace to 10% Catholicism. +1 piety

Convert your populace to 30% Catholicism. +2 piety.

Convert your populace to 50% Catholicism. +3 piety.

Convert your populace to 100% Catholicism. +5 piety.

Win a holy war. +3 piety.

Take part in a crusade. +3 piety.

Capture a holy relic. +5 piety.

Be excommunicated by the pope. -5 piety

Lose a holy war. -3 piety.

Allow a heretical uprising in your province to go unanswered for a year. -3 piety.

Allow heresy to take root in any of your provinces (happens when catholic conversion levels slip too low). -3 piety.

Catholicism disappears from your province. -5 piety.

Piety points offer a varied amount of perks for your character, the higher the piety, the better the perk. However, you suffer if you have negative piety.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

0 piety - excommunication. Anyone can kill you without penalty
5 piety - no effects

WIP