NOTE: If you set up the Lilithian Papacy, you will need to have a 64 bit system with at least 4 GB of memory, or the game will crash after a little while.
For anyone who's tried modding in the variations of enatic succession, or really played with absolute cognatic, you've probably noticed that the vast majority of the game's mechanics don't effectively deal with this kind of succession. You're still using men for all your counselor positions, and your sons still demand land for themselves while the women just carry on for the most part as if nothing has changed.
This mod makes it so that all your jobs other than the Lord Spiritual can be given out based on what type of succession you have. Both men and women if cognatic, only men if either type of agnatic, only women if either type of enatic (unless they have a special flag). They'll also all ask to replace your current adviser if they're better suited for the position. Close female relatives will also request land if you have a succession law that lets them be given it, and men won't ask at all if you have a type of enatic succession.
You can also change which succession law you have across the whole spectrum so long as you aren't Muslim, Tengri, or a republic. For now, there is no restriction beyond playing as a woman if you want to push towards enatic, and playing as a man if you want to push towards agnatic. Switching between agnatic and agnatic-cognatic or enatic and enatic-cognatic has no restrictions other then you can't disenfranchised yourself.
The base game is otherwise completely unaltered, beyond the king of Navarra having absolute cognatic law by default early on, and the cathars no longer getting free use of women in counselor positions. Instead, they have a special decision that lets them switch to absolute cognatic succession at any time if they don't have it already.
There are also new decisions for employing stewards and a young nobleman depending on your gender law. I've also set it up so that women can become adventurers in Absolute cognatic or enatic style realms, who will try to make their own enatic realms. The claim CB has been altered to disallow men pushing weak claims on women without another reason in cognatic or enatic realms, while women can use weak claims on men for no other reason in enatic realms. I've also changed claimant factions slightly, so they use the same rules.
What this mod doesn't change are the negative opinion modifiers with male rulers for having a female ruler or heir, landless sons costing you prestige (no way to mod this without removing it completely), being able to give land to men under enatic succession, or the current set up for religions.
Oh, and for now, all feudal vassals will assume the same type of succession law as their liege. I have plans later for vassals to attempt to faction to force the same law type on their liege if the liege changes it, but right now it is this way so that all your vassals aren't all using agnatic-cognatic, even if you give a new title to them.
ChangelogV1,94 (3-6-2014):
- Solved a very strange issue with the Maryite Matriarchy, I have no idea how it was screwed up, but apparently changing the date in the history file from 20 to 21 solved the issue. Note that this only fixes new games, for old ones, open the console and type 'event BGL.168' to create the Maryite Matriarchy.
- The Manichean Zoroastrian heresy now allows female priests and prefers absolute-cognatic succession with male preference (note that they're the one Zoro heresy that doesn't have divine blood or allow concubines in the base game).
- Made it so that holy orders can spawn for Maryites and Lilithians.
- Added an alert decision/event to tell the player to choose a gender preference under cognatic, and an option to trigger voting on the law.
Known issues:- Titles that were given out to alternative heirs through gavelkind still use the default succession law.
- When using the change gender law decisions, the list of successors is not refreshed. In non-elective realms, you will either need to reload, wait for your ruler to die, or have a child for this to change. In elective ones, the only issue is that votes for candidates that don't qualify for the title will maintain their votes until their supporters change their votes to someone else.
- Under Free Investiture Law, women cannot be appointed as successors to bishoprics in Lilithian realms.
- Sons generate landless son prestige loss regardless of gender law.
- Landless men can be granted titles under enatic and enatic-cognatic succession even without a claim on the title. The AI will give out land to men over women no mater what gender law they're using.
- Random female Councillors are all age 30.
