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Tenets represent a faith's most important rites, rituals and traditions. Each faith has exactly three.

The piety cost to choose a tenet when creating a new faith depends on what religion it belongs to. The cost of the tenet will also be discounted by 50% if it is present in the original faith.

Common tenets

The following tenets are available to all religions:

Tenet	Effects	Virtues	Sins	Max piety cost	Requirements	Description
Adaptive	+30% County Conversion Resistance +15 Different Faith Liege Opinion +15 Opinion of Different Faith Liege −25% Different Faith Popular Opinion Different faith vassals are less likely to join Independence and Populist factions			500 if Jewish, Buddhist, Jain or Pagan 1500 if Christian or Muslim 1000 if any other	Pluralist religious attitude doctrine	Dogmatic adherence to old restrictions only harms the faithful. As long as we stay true to the core beliefs of our faith, we may adapt our laws to the world around us.
Asceticism	Enables the Meditate in Seclusion decision	Temperate	Gluttonous Greedy Eager Reveler Famous Reveler Legendary Reveler	500 if Christian, Dualist, Buddhist, Jain or Taoist 1500 Zoroastrian or Pagan 1000 if any other	None	Materialistic pursuits blind us to the divine truth. Only by devoting ourselves to live simple lives without luxury can to achieve spiritual enlightenment.
Astrology	+25% Naval Speed Enables the Divine the Stars decision			500 if Zoroastrian or Pagan 1500 if Christian, Muslim or Jewish 1000 if any other	None	The night sky is our window into the realm of the divine. The great secrets and mysteries of the world are written there, open for all to learn if they know where to look.
Carnal Exaltation	+25% Fertility	Lustful	Chaste	500 if Hindu 1500 if Christian or Jewish 2000 if Buddhist or Jain 1000 if any other	None	The pleasures of the flesh are sublime in a way that transcends other earthly experiences, bringing us closer to the divine. We should glorify our sexual desires and seek out opportunities for us to fulfill them.
Communal Identity	+10 Same faith opinion +50% Culture Promotion Speed if same faith +50% County Conversion Speed if same culture −50% County Conversion Speed if different culture			1000 if Buddhist or Jain 500 if any other	None	Our faith and our culture are intrinsically linked together. This practice strengthens the bonds of our community, though it tends to exclude foreigners.
Communion	Enables the Seek Indulgences interaction with the Head of Faith Head of Faith can Excommunicate characters Makes Excommunicated a crime	Honest	Deceitful	500 if Christian or Jewish 1500 if Pagan 1000 if any other	None head of faith doctrine	Our rituals are not merely symbolic — they invoke the very presence of the divine itself. Those who cannot or do not join us in their practice cannot be true believers.
Divine Marriage	+10 Vassal Opinion if married to a Close Family member +1000 Piety if first marriage is with a Close Family member and Monogamous			1500 if Muslim, Dualist, Buddhist or Jain 1000 if any other	Unrestricted Marriage consanguinity doctrine	The blood of the divine runs through the veins of our kings and queens. Keeping our bloodlines pure is the best way to ensure our family's reign continues for centuries to come.
Ecclesiarchy Variant Names: The Pentarchy (Christianity)	+0.1 Monthly Fervor per Holy Site Completing a pilgrimage grants a Clergy Opinion modifier			1000 if Christian, Hindu or Zoroastrian 1500 if any other	Pluralist religious attitude doctrine	Our holy sites are more than just sacred places — they are the very seats of power from which our religious leaders rule.
Esotericism	Learning Education may also grant the Wise Man trait Pilgrimages have a chance to grant or upgrade the Wise Man trait	Wise Man Mystic Miracle Worker		500 if Hindu, Jain, Zoroastrian or Pagan 1500 if Christian 1000 if any other	None	The great mysteries of the divine may be beyond mortal comprehension, but that is not an excuse for ignorance. Their very existence compels us to seek knowledge and understanding of the world around us.
Gnosticism	+2 Learning −2 Stewardship −5 Stress when granting a County Title −15 Stress when granting a Duchy Title −65 Stress when granting a Kingdom Title −160 Stress when granting an Empire Title Faiths with the same tenet are considered Righteous	Temperate	Gluttonous	500 if Dualist, Zoroastrian 1500 if Muslim, Jewish, Hindu or Pagan 1000 if any other	Eastern Syncretism tenet	Through knowledge, the divine spark that rests inside all humans may be liberated and returned to its heavenly source in the spirit-realm.
Legalism	−10% Law Cost per Virtue trait +10% Law Cost per Sin trait Characters are less likely to join Factions if the Liege has a virtue trait Characters are more likely to join Factions if the Liege has a sin trait Electors are more likely to vote for the Liege's choice if it has the Just trait	Just (great)	Arbitrary (great)	500 if Muslim, Jewish or Zoroastrian 1500 if Buddhist, Jain or Pagan 1000 if any other	None	Our laws are the result of generations of wisdom and devoutness, and adhering to them is by its very nature pious. A sinner, no matter who, will never be above the law.
Mendicant Preachers	+33% County Conversion Speed Completing a pilgrimage grants a Holy Order Hire Cost modifier	Temperate	Gluttonous	500 if Christian, Dualist, Buddhist or Jain 1500 if Hindu, Zoroastrian or Pagan 1000 if any other	Hedonistic tenet	Our missionaries travel far and wide with nothing but the clothes they wear on their back. They live off the generosity of those they visit, and share the knowledge of the true faith in return.
Monasticism	Enables the Ask to Take Vows interaction with Courtiers	Temperate	Gluttonous	500 if Christian, Dualist, Buddhist or Jain 1500 Zoroastrian or Pagan 1000 if any other	Hedonistic tenet	The pleasures of fine food and drink only serve to distract us from service to the divine. Isolating ourselves in remote monasteries is the best way to avoid these temptations.
Natural Primitivism	+25% Stress Loss −25% Stress Gain +50% Law Cost +100% Tyranny Gain Characters don't wear clothes if the nudity game setting is enabled			1000 if Hindu or Jain 1500 if Christian, Dualist, Buddhist or Pagan 2000 if any other	Criminal same-sex relations doctrine Criminal male adultery doctrine Criminal female adultery doctrine Criminal deviancy doctrine Criminal witchcraft doctrine Criminal kinslaying doctrine	Civilization is unnatural, a futile and blasphemous attempt by man to impose order on an inherently unordered creation. We embrace naturism and live as god intended, wild and free.
Polyamory	No penalties from extramarital relationships			500 if Hindu 1500 if Abrahamic, Buddhist or Jain 1000 if any other	Shunned male adultery doctrine Criminal male adultery doctrine Shunned female adultery doctrine Criminal female adultery doctrine	Our love for each other should be as unconditional as [Fertility God]'s love for us. We must cast away the outdated notions of one person owning the affections of another.
Pursuit of Power	−50% Title Creation Cost −50% Tyranny Gain −10 Direct Vassal Opinion Grants the Conquest Casus Belli Grants the Invasion Casus Belli once per lifetime	Ambitious	Content	1000 if Muslim, Hindu or Pagan 1500 if Jewish 2000 if any other	None	What is and is not righteous is transient, defined by those who currently hold power. This means that the pursuit of power is the only truly righteous cause.
Religious Law Variant Names: Fatwa (Islam) Halakha (Judaism)	−10% Law Cost Enables the Temporal Condemnation interaction with Vassals			500 if Muslim or Jewish 1500 if Christian, Hindu, Zoroastrian or Pagan 1000 if any other	None	The border between theological and legal arguments is thin, and spiritual qualities can and should be considered in secular settlements.
Ritual Cannibalism	Cannibal is no longer Criminal	Cannibal (great)		1000 if Christian or Pagan 1500 if Hindu 2000 if any other	None	Mankind is blessed to have been bestowed with the spark of the divine. Human flesh is therefore sacred, its presence something to be savored, not buried or burned.
Ritual Celebrations	+5 Vassal Opinion +5 Courtier Opinion +100 Piety when holding a Feast −100 Piety when refusing to attend a Feast			500 if Hindu, Zoroastrian or Pagan 1000 if any other	None	The worship of the divine is something to be exalted in and shared with our community. Organizing great festivals to honor and praise the divine brings us all together.
Sacred Lies	+50 Piety when successfully completing a Scheme +20 Agent Acceptance	Deceitful	Honest	1000 if Pagan 1500 if Muslim or Jewish 2000 if any other	None	Lying is the most profound art in existence. Those who can convince others of their lie are holy. Those who can successfully lie to themselves are unstoppable.
Sanctity of Nature	+5 Popular Opinion +5 Advantage in Forest, Jungle and Taiga terrain −25% Attrition in Forest, Jungle and Taiga terrain +10% Building Construction Gold Cost			500 if Pagan 1500 if Hindu 2000 if Abrahamic 1000 if any other	None	The natural world is the creation of the divine, and we are merely guests in it. We must respect and honor every tree, every animal, and even the ground itself.
Tax Nonbelievers Variant Names: Jizya (Islam)	+20% Domain Taxes if different faith +25% Levy Reinforcement Rate if same faith −25% Levy Reinforcement Rate if different faith			500 if Muslim or Pagan 1500 if Christian or Dualist 1000 if any other	None	Military service is for the faithful only, while a tax is levied on all nonbelievers for the protection they are offered.
Unrelenting Faith	+4 Prowess +2 Faith Hostility Advantage Members of the clergy can serve as Commanders or Knights			500 if Muslim, Jewish or Pagan 1500 if Buddhist or Jain 1000 if any other	None	Our convictions are strong, and we will gladly fight and die for our faith. No matter how badly the odds are stacked against us, we shall not surrender.
Vows of Poverty	Enables the Take Vow of Poverty decision	Generous (great)	Greedy (great)	500 if Christian, Dualist, Buddhist or Jain 1500 Zoroastrian or Pagan 1000 if any other	None	Money corrupts the hearts of men and pushes them away from the true faith. We must shun the acquisition of material wealth if we are to focus on what really matters.

Restricted tenets

The following tenets are only available to certain religions.

Tenet	Effects	Virtues	Sins	Max piety cost	Religions	Requirements	Description
Adorcism	Enables the Seek Aid of the Spirits decision	Possessed(great)		500	Hausan Akan		The spirits of the world can do great works of both good and evil. By honoring and respecting them we can only hope that they will do their good to us and their evil to our foes.
Alexandrian Catechism	+20% Monthly Learning Lifestyle Experience			1000	Christianity	Fundamentalist religious attitude doctrine	The Catechetical School of Alexandria had a long tradition of encouraging theologians to think critically and question the status quo. Despite the physical destruction of the school, we carry on these traditions.
Ancestor Worship	+100% Prestige from Level of Splendor +5 Close Family Opinion +50% Maximum Long Reign Opinion Bonus Completing a pilgrimage grants Close Family Opinion modifier			500	All Pagan	None	Our ancestors watch over us from beyond the grave, guiding us and showing us the way forward. For this we must respect and honor them.
Aniconism	−33% Temple Holding and Temple Building Construction Cost −33% Temple Holding and Temple Building Construction Time			500 if Christian, Muslim or Jewish 1000 if Dualist or Miletê	All Abrahamic	None	The worship of graven images has blinded far too many to the divine truth. We will cast all icons out of our holy places so that our faithful will not fall into that trap.
Armed Pilgrimages	−20% Holy War Piety Cost +25% County Conversion Speed per owned Holy Site if no Head of Faith Can declare Great Holy Wars if Faith has a Head of Faith Completing a pilgrimage grants a Monthly Piety from Knights modifier			500 if Christian 1000 if Jewish	Christianity Judaism	Dharmic Pacifism tenet Pacifism tenet	Our pilgrims travel across the world to visit our sacred holy sites — we will gladly take up the sword to keep them safe from any who would harm them.
Auspicious Birthright	5% Chance a child is born with the Miracle Worker trait Miracle Worker gives +50 Same faith opinion and +5 Monthly Piety instead of the normal amounts	Miracle Worker(great)		500	Uralic	None	Every one of us is born with a destiny, the most import of which is the táltos — those who are chosen from birth to wield magical powers and become spiritual leaders.
Bhakti	Enables the Determine Bhakti decision			1000	Hinduism	None	Mortals cannot live up to the full glory of the divine, but by selectinggle aspect of divinity to emulate, worship and devote oneself to, we can come closer to them than otherwise would be possible.
Ritual Suicide Variant Names: Consolamentum (Christianity)	−50% Short Reign Duration Enables the Initiate Endura decision			1500 if Dualist, Hindu or Jain 1000 if any other 500 if Kushite	All Eastern (Except Zoroastrian) Christianity Dualism Miletê Tawûsê Melek Kushite	None	When we grow old or sick, we perform a ritual to cleanse our soul of sins. Once that is done, we quickly and definitively end our lives, so that {1}s does not have the opportunity to infest us once more.
Dharmic Pacifism	+1 Domain Limit +10 Opinion of other Pacifists +20% County Conversion Resistance Cannot declare Holy Wars or Raid	Calm	Wrathful	500 if Buddhism or Jainism 1000 if any other	Buddhism Hinduism Jainism Taoism	Armed Pilgrimages tenet Human Sacrifice tenet	We are all part of the cosmic order. Violence against anything is violence against everything, oneself included.
Hedonistic	+100 Piety when holding a Feast	Gluttonous(great)	Temperate(great)	500 if Hindu 1500 if Muslim or Jewish 2000 if Christian, Buddhist or Jain 1000 if any other	All except Dualism	Mendicant Preachers tenet Monasticism tenet	The divine filled this world with a bounty of pleasures for us to indulge in and enjoy — to not partake of such things is to snub the very work of creation itself.
Human Sacrifice	Grants the Raid for Captives Casus Belli +50 Piety per executed Count +100 Piety per executed Duke +500 Piety per executed King +1000 Piety per executed Emperor			1000 if Pagan 1500 if Hindu 2000 if any other	All Eastern All Pagan Dualism Miletê Tawûsê Melek	Dharmic Pacifism tenet Pacifism tenet	The best way to prove our devotion is through the act of sacrifice. The most valuable sacrifice we can offer is the sacrifice of human life.
Inner Journey	Enables the Meditate in Seclusion decision	Patient	Impatient	500	Buddhism Hinduism Jainism Taoism	None	Only by understanding one's self can we understand the world. The journey of self-discovery is important as it is long and difficult.
Literalism	Enables the Literalist Debate interaction with characters of the same faith	Scholar Astute Intellectual Mastermind Philosopher		500 if Muslim or Jewish 1000 if Christian, Dualist or Miletê	All Abrahamic	None	Our holy texts clearly state divine intent, and human interpretation is of limited value.
Pacifism	+1 Domain Limit +10 Opinion of Other Pacifists Cannot declare Holy Wars or Raid Rulers at peace for at least two years will have their Piety change by 1 each month	Calm	Wrathful	500 if Christian or Taoist 1500 if Muslim 1000 if any other	All Abrahamic All Pagan Zoroastrianism Taoism	Armed Pilgrimages tenet Human Sacrifice tenet	Violence is an abhorrent act that only leads to suffering, pain and regret. By working to avoid it whenever possible we can build stronger, more secure societies for the faithful to live in.
Pastoral Isolation	+10 Different Faith Liege Opinion +30% County Conversion Resistance −10% Monthly Development +20 Enemy Demand Conversion Acceptance Christian Faiths are considered Righteous Counties and characters may sometimes reconvert to this faith			500	Christianity	None head of faith doctrine Sanctioned False Conversions tenet	All we want is to be left alone. Our practices are our own, and no more the business of anyone else than theirs are of ours.
Reincarnation	+20% County Conversion Resistance 4% Chance of a child to gain the Reincarnation trait and an ancestor's personality trait at age 9			500 if Dualist, Buddhist, Hindu or Jain 1500 if Muslim 1000 if any other	All Eastern All Pagan Islam Dualism Miletê Tawûsê Melek	None	We have lived many lives before this one, and will continue to live many lives after it. Every death is only the beginning of something new.
Ritual Hospitality Variant Names: Pūjā (Hinduism)	+0.3 Monthly piety per powerful vassal on the council Enables the Host as Honored Guest interaction with landed characters	Generous	Callous	500 if Buddhist, Hindu or Jain 1000 if any other	All Eastern All Pagan	None	Hospitality is one of the greatest virtues mankind can exhibit. Guests in our home, be they mortal or divine, should always be treated with the utmost honor and respect.
Sacred Childbirth Variant Names: Kūdikis Lemti (Baltic)	+10% Fertility −50% Pregnancy Complication Chance			500	Baltic Oromo-Somali	None	The bathhouses where mothers give birth must be cleansed and prepared with the proper rituals, in order to encourage the divine to grant us their blessing during childbirth.
Sanctioned False Conversions Variant Names: Taqiya (Islam)	+30% County Conversion Resistance Counties and characters may sometimes reconvert to this faith			500 if Zoroastrian 1500 if Dualist, Buddhist, Hindu or Jain 1000 if any other	All except Christianity	None	If your life is threatened, it is acceptable to confess a false faith, as long as you keep the truth in your heart.
Sky Burials	Enables the Give your Ancestor a Sky Burial decision Small Disease Resistance (Health) Boost			500	All Eastern All Pagan	None	The dead should not be imprisoned underground — it is far better to allow them to be consumed by scavenging birds, where in a final act of generosity they can feed the world that fed them.
Struggle and Submission	+50% Piety and Devotion from Holy Wars +25% County Conversion Speed per owned Holy Site if no Head of Faith Can declare Great Holy Wars if Faith has a Head of Faith and Fervor is high enough Completing a pilgrimage grants a Same faith opinion modifier			500 if Muslim 1500 if Dualist	Islam Dualism	None	Divine will is the source of all good, so a good existence is based on submission to that will, expressed through the struggle to enact it.
Sun Worship	−25% Attrition in Desert and Desert Mountains terrain Enables the Sun Trial interaction with Prisoners +250 Piety when holding a Feast during the summer months			1000	Zunbil	None	The light-bringer, the live-giver, the ever-burning flame — It reigns high in the sky as the true sovereign of the world
Warmonger	Members of the clergy can serve as Commanders or Knights Grants the Conquest Casus Belli Grants the Invasion Casus Belli once per lifetime No Offensive War Opinion Being at peace for more than 6 months lowers Vassal Opinion Can declare Great Holy Wars if Faith has a Head of Faith and is Organized Knights that are neither  Calm nor  Craven can become  Berserkers			2000 if Buddhist, Jain or Taoist 1000 if any other	All Eastern All Pagan Miletê Tawûsê Melek	Dharmic Pacifism tenet Pacifism tenet	Faith and war go hand in hand. One who refuses to fight in the name of the divine cannot be called a true believer.

Syncretism

All faiths can pick a Syncretism tenet, which borrow at least one virtue and sin from another religion, grant +30  Opinion mutually with all characters following it, and makes their faiths unable to be considered or consider the current faith Evil. Each faith can have only one Syncretism tenet and cannot have the one that affects its own religion.

Eastern Syncretism does not provide an opinion bonus. In addition, since Eastern faiths never consider a Faith to be Evil, it has no impact on the religious hostility of Eastern faiths.

Tenet	Affected religions	Virtues	Sins	Max piety cost	Description
Christian Syncretism	Christian	Compassionate	Callous Sadistic	500 if Muslim or Dualist 1000 if any other	Jesus of Nazareth may not have been true divinity, but he was an upstanding and virtuous figure. We should honor and respect his teachings.
Islamic Syncretism	Islamic	Generous	Arbitrary Greedy	500 if Christian or Dualist 1000 if any other	The Prophet's words are indisputably wise and just, and whatever our doubts, we should take heed of his thoughts and deeds.
Jewish Syncretism	Jewish	Patient	Cynical Greedy	500 if Christian or Dualist 1000 if any other	Though we do not agree about with its claims about God's chosen people, the wisdom of the Jewish Torah is undeniable, and there is much to be learned from the text.
Eastern Syncretism	All Eastern	Honest	Wrathful	500 if Dualist or Pagan 1500 if Muslim 1000 if any other	There is something to be learned from the way the different eastern religions tolerate each other. They may not follow the true faith, but that does not make them evil.
Syncretic Folk Traditions	All Unreformed	Humble	Arrogant	1000	Who are we to tell others their traditions are untrue? It is not our place to lecture them about customs they have practiced for centuries: Instead, we should learn quietly about their ways.

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