This can also be handy because it disinherits them, if they join an order. But you can donate money to them, give them castles, you can borrow money from some of them, and your family members will tend to go off and join these orders, especially if they are fairly martial-types. You still canвЂ™t PLAY as a Holy Order I still think that would be difficult to shoehorn that into the feudal dynastic system that we have. вЂњWeвЂ™ve also visited the Holy Orders again вЂ“ you can interact with them a lot more now. All Non-Heretic religions have Holy Orders now as well. 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 newвЂ™ OrthodoxвЂ™ if it has more provinces than the mother religion. For example, the CatharвЂ™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. ItвЂ™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 вЂ“ Canterbury, Santiago, Rome, Jerusalem and Constantinople. Pilgrimages also provide a new adventure for your character to go on вЂ“ 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 вЂ“ if you control a Cardinal, and someone wants to excommunicate you and they control no Cardinals, then youвЂ™re basically immune to that.вЂќ That means you can call in favours from the Pope, but that costs opinion вЂ“ heвЂ™ll like you a little bit less each time you make a request, so you canвЂ™t endlessly exploit it. Basically heвЂ™ll have plus 200 opinion of you. If you do that, heвЂ™s going to be grateful to you, and heвЂ™ll have a special bond with you. вЂњThere 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. ThereвЂ™s quite a few major additions or changes to Crusader Kings 2, most notably the inclusion of the вЂCollege of CardinalsвЂ™, 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, thereвЂ™s a Joan of Arc type thing.вЂќ itвЂ™s probably going to be more events than weвЂ™ve added in any other expansion, I think.

вЂњThe whole focus is of course on the three Abrahamic faiths, and weвЂ™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, letвЂ™s look at Sons of Abraham itself in more detail, what it brings to the table, and what that could mean going forward. In Part One of our Two-part feature on Crusader Kings II вЂPhase TwoвЂ™, 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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