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Pervasive Crown Authority

Tired of vassals of vassals still waging war despite absolute crown authority?

Well this is the mod for you. This makes it so the high and absolute crown authority vassal war restrictions applies to all vassals and all vassals below them.

Note: this mod does not stop tyranny wars.

This mod allows you to choose between three strengths of crown authority pervasiveness. To choose what strength you want, set the new "Vassal War Law Strength" game rule to the desired level:

Strict - Vassals can't declare internal wars without a hook if any liege or above has high or absolute crown authority. Vassals can't declare foreign wars without a hook if any liege or above has absolute crown authority.

Medium - Vassals can't declare internal wars without a hook if the lowest liege or above them and the target has high or absolute crown authority (e.g. a kingdom with high crown authority still allows two counts under a single duke to go to war, but those counts can't declare war on any direct vassal of the king). Vassals can't declare foreign wars without a hook if any liege or above has absolute crown authority. This is the default game rule.

Lax - Vassals can't declare internal wars without a hook if their direct liege has high or absolute crown authority. Vassals can't declare foreign wars without a hook if their direct liege has absolute crown authority. This is the vanilla CK3 experience, included for the convenience of not having to unload the mod to choose it.

Vassal with more than one liege or above restricting their ability to declare war need a hook on each liege or above doing so in order to declare war. The mod dynamically modifies the war declaration screen to display all required hooks.

Vassals still can use the "War Declaration: Sanctioned" vassal contract option. But this only means their direct liege's crown authority doesn't restrict them. They still need a hook if anyone above their direct liege has a crown authority restricting them.

This means vassals getting hooks on their top liege are more useful, even if not directly under their top liege. This can be good for those that want more intrigue challenges/targets when playing as a vassal.

Note that wars against a vassal's liege are not prevented with this mod (tyranny wars do no use the war declaration interaction used by this mod and there are no plans to rework all the AI interactions that can trigger tyranny wars).

Final there is another game rule, "Vassal War Law Government", that enables tribal governments to be able to prevent vassal from declaring wars in the same way as feudal/clan governments can. The tribal game rule enabled tribal authority 3 blocks internal vassal war, while tribal authority 4 blocks both internal and external vassal war. This works with the pervasive mechanic added by this mod.

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- Achievement Compatible
- Should be compatible with mods that add new realm laws
- Only compatible with new games (saves started without the mod will default to the vanilla rules)

- Compatible with my other mod: Adoption Options:
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2816662627
- Compatible with my other mod: Celebrate Crimes:
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2373238758
- Is compatible with my other mod: Travel the Distance:
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2743500919
- Compatible with my other mod: Deity Doctrines:
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2356444301

-Compatible with Gamerule Gadget
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2826829936&searchtext=gamerule
-Compatch for LotR - Realms in Exile, by Leugimimi
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3046399590