Pillars on the culture screen
Royal Court released on 8 Feb 2022. Its store page is the culture work as well as the throne room: pillars, heritage, languages, traditions, hybrid cultures, and divergence.
The diverge window is the picture of a pillar set. The Pillars tab lists ethos, language, martial custom, and aesthetics. On the Anglo-Saxon image the ethos row is Bureaucratic, Bellicose, Stoic, Spiritual, Courtly, Egalitarian, and Communal. Language on that window is Anglic. Martial custom is Men Only, Equal, or Women Only. Aesthetics on that window is Anglo-Saxon. The window you open is the list for your culture.
The same window says the new culture is created with you as the culture head. Heritage is the other pillar the store page names. It is part of what a people is, next to the language they learn.
Steam dates Royal Court to 8 Feb 2022. The store page describes cultural pillars, heritage, languages, traditions, hybrid cultures, and divergence.
Read a tradition on its tab
The Traditions tab sits beside Pillars. Open it before you confirm a diverge. Each tradition you keep is a rule for that culture.
The Royal Court store page says a tradition can follow the realm's terrain, or change the military. The tradition's tooltip is the effect. Pick the ones that match the land you hold and the army you raise.
Ethos and court type meet on the throne room. The culture's ethos decides which court types you can pick. Royal court is that choice and the grandeur bar.
The Royal Court store page says cultural traditions change how you play, including benefits tied to the realm's terrain and military bonuses. Pillars cover heritage and language.
Diverge a culture once
Diverge creates a new culture from the one you have. You need Royal Court. The store image is Diverge from Anglo-Saxon, with the new name Mercian typed in the field.
Read the right-hand column before you press Diverge Culture. It prints the prestige. It prints acceptance with the parent culture. It prints who will convert. On that image the adoption line is close family and the vassals listed there. Your window prints your own lines.
The window says each ruler can diverge a culture once. It also says a divergent culture cannot have another culture diverge from it for 100 years. Wait out that block if you wanted a second split from the new culture. A different parent culture is a different diverge.
The Royal Court diverge window says each ruler can diverge a culture once, and that a divergent culture cannot have another culture diverge from it for 100 years. The window prints the prestige and who will convert.
Hybrid is the merge
Hybrid culture merges two cultures that are already in the realm. You pick pillars and traditions from either parent. That decision needs Royal Court or Khans of the Steppe.
The acceptance line, the yearly offer, and the nomad button are on the hybrid guide. Fuse two cultures there. Read a tradition, or split one culture, from the pillars and the diverge decision above.
Reform the culture you have
Reform Culture is the third culture decision in the 1.5.0 notes, beside diverge and hybrid. It changes traditions, ethos, or pillars on the culture you already have. The notes describe that change as slow. The button prints the prestige.
Diverge and hybrid create a new culture. Reform keeps the culture and changes it. Confirm the decision only after you have read the traditions it will replace. The tooltip on each tradition is the change.
The 1.5.0 Fleur-de-Lis notes name Form Hybrid Culture, Diverge Culture, and Reform Culture. Reform Culture changes existing traditions, ethos, or pillars over a long period of time.
Faith, court, and the army
Faith is a different screen. Tenets, county conversion, holy wars, and the Christian situation are on the faith guide. A culture's ethos and traditions do not pick the faith.
Martial custom on the pillars tab is Men Only, Equal, or Women Only. Raising a regiment, reading its counter, and stationing it are on the men-at-arms guide. The declare-war screen is on the warfare guide.
Court type follows the ethos. Grandeur, amenities, and Hold Court are on the royal court guide. After a diverge or a reform, look at that bar again if you are a king or an emperor.
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