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[[File:Council.jpg|right|frame|The council]]
[[File:Alert appointment.png]] '''The Council''' is a group of specialized [[character]]s helping to rule the realm. There are five council positions, each linked to one of the [[attributes]].

Each councilor has four possible '''jobs''', also known as abilities or missions. A councilor can only perform one job at a time, and cannot [[Commander|lead troops]] while assigned to a job. Once assigned to a job, they get the {{iconify|working}} status.

A councilor's skill in the linked attribute affects their performance in jobs and boosts your [[state attributes|state attribute]]. Their skills in other attributes is largely unimportant. However, high intrigue skill can make them [[assassination|dangerous]] if disloyal, due to their doubled plot power.

Firing councilors will incur an opinion malus with them and prevent them from being reappointed for some time.

Vassal patricians in [[merchant republic]]s and khans in [[nomadism|khaganates]] expect a place on the council. There is an opinion penalty if they are not appointed as councilors.

In the Byzantine and Roman Empire, councilors have a say in the imperial succession due to the empire's unique [[imperial elective]] system. In addition, the Marshal is a potential successor, barring mutilation.
== Positions ==

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! class="unsortable"|
! Job
! Primary attribute
! Dignity
! Opinion modifier
! Monthly salary
! Monthly prestige
! Monthly piety
|-
| [[File:Obj become chancellor.png]]
| Chancellor
| [[File:Icon_diplomacy.png]] [[Diplomacy]] 
| 0.33
| +15
| 0.10
| 0.75
|
|-
| [[File:Obj become marshal.png]]
| Marshal
| [[File:Icon_martial.png]] [[Martial]] 
| 0.33
| +15
| 0.10
| 0.75
|
|-
| [[File:Obj become treasurer.png]]
| Steward
| [[File:Icon_stewardship.png]] [[Stewardship]] 
| 0.33
| +15
| 0.10
| 0.75
|
|-
| [[File:Obj become spymaster.png]]
| Spymaster
| [[File:Icon_intrigue.png]] [[Intrigue]] 
| 0.10
| +15
| 0.10
| 
| 
|-
| [[File:Obj become spiritual.png]]
| Court Chaplain
| [[File:Icon_learning.png]] [[Learning]] 
| 0.15
| +15
| 0.10
| 
| 0.5
|-
|}

Prestige, piety, and salary are scaled by rank: doubled for councilors of dukes, tripled for councilors of kings, quadrupled for councilors of emperors. Furthermore, salaries are tripled in merchant republics.

=== Variant names ===
The names of councillors listed above are considered the "default"; they are the ones used for Western European Catholics. With different religion or culture they may have different names. This does not affect their functions (except for Muslims, whose Imam / Mullah performs charity instead of improving religious relations).

(This table is incomplete.)

{| class="wikitable"
! Culture/Religion
! Chancellor
! Marshal
! Steward
! Spymaster
! Court Chaplain
|-
| Orthodox
| Magistros
| Protostrator
| Sakellarios
| Mystikos
| Ecclesiarch or Patriarch<sup>1</sup>
|-
| Miaphysite
| —
| —
| —
| —
| Court Chaplain or Patriarch<sup>1</sup>
|-
| Sunni
| —
| —
| —
| —
| Court Imam
|-
| Shia
| —
| —
| —
| —
| Court Mullah
|-
| Pagan (other than Norse / Aztec)
| —
| —
| —
| —
| Diviner
|-
| Norse
| —
| —
| —
| —
| Seer
|-
| Aztec (religion)
| Cihuacoatl
| Tlacatecclatl
| Petlacalcatl
| Tillancalqui
| Sahagun
|-
| Zoroastrian
| Astabadh
| Eran Spahbod
| Darik-Pat
| —
| Mobad
|-
| Greek
| Magistros
| Protostrator
| Sakellarios
| Mystikos
| —
|-
| Iranian or Arab
| Grand Vizier
| —
| —
| —
| —
|-
| Jewish
| —
| —
| —
| —
| Court Rabbi
|-
| Indian
| —
| —
| —
| —
| Upadhyaya
|-
| Tibetan
| Lönchen
| —
| Gnyer
| —
| Banchenpo
|-
| Taoist
| Chief Minister
| Xingjun Sima
| Treasurer
| —
| Libationer
|-
|}

<sup>1</sup> Normally Ecclesiarch / Court Chaplain. If you are a king or emperor and not the Ecumenical Patriarch's / Coptic Pope's liege, your chaplain's title is Patriarch and he is your realm's [[religious head]] (he appears in the church's list of [[Autocephaly|autocephalous patriarchs]]).<br>

===Requirements===
In all cases your councillors must not be {{iconify|incapable}} or in prison. They must be your [[courtiers]] or direct vassals.

Most council positions are only open to men. The exceptions are as follows:
* The Spymaster may be your wife or mother. If you appoint your wife, note that her Intrigue is only added to your state Intrigue once as your spymaster, not one and a half times as both your spymaster and your wife. Additionally, pagans may appoint female pagan spymasters. Muslim rulers may also appoint their secondary wives as spymasters.
* Religions that allow female temple holders also allow female spirituals (Pagans other than Aztec, Tengri and Zunist; Cathar, Messalian, Bogomilist; Mazdaki, Manichean; Buddhist)
* Cathars/Messalians may appoint coreligionists to all council positions, regardless of gender.
* Some characters have flags marking them as an exception to the usual rules. If they have it, they may be appointed to the appropriate position despite being female or a child. For example, the Marshal position is open to [[Soa_misc_religious_events#Jeanne_d.27Arc|Jeanne d'Arc]] and Germanic pagan women appointed as [[Shieldmaiden]][[File:Shieldmaiden.png|alt=|link=Shieldmaiden]].
*{{icon|con}} [[Conclave]] DLC adds [[Realm laws#Status of Women|Status of Women]] laws, gradually opening all secular council positions to women.
*{{icon|con}} [[Conclave]] DLC adds [[Female councillor events]]. Women appointed through these events generally can't be appointed again if they lose the position.

The lord spiritual must share the liege's religion, and has additional requirements depending on religion:
* Non-Muslims:
** Can only appoint courtiers, theocratic vassals (such as bishops), or clan leaders
** Orthodox rulers (and other with autocephaly) cannot appoint courtiers unless they have no bishops (or are tribal)
** Hindus must be {{iconify|Brahmin}} caste or ascetic to hold the office of Upadhyaya
* Muslims:
** Can only appoint characters with one of the religious [[Traits#Education traits|education traits]].
** Cannot fire their imam (except indirectly, e.g. by causing them to become imprisoned or transferring vassalage)

== Chancellor ==
=== Abilities ===
*[[File:Job improve relations.png]]  '''Improve Diplomatic [[Relations]]'''
** '''Success:''' A four-year +30 [[Opinion Modifiers|opinion modifier]] with a random local ruler (who is either count+ tier or your direct vassal). Can stack multiple.
** '''Failure:''' A two-year -20 opinion modifier with a random local ruler (including barons). <!-- Example: want to improve relations with the Byzantine Emperor. Constantinople is bad because the Ecumenical Patriarch could be chosen on success. Adrianopolis is good because it has many barons who could be chosen on failure. -->
*[[File:Job fabricate claims.png]] '''Fabricate [[Claims]] ''' (not available to [[nomadism|nomads]])
** '''Success:''' Creates a strong uninheritable claim, usually on a [[county]].
*** MTTH falls quickly to 85 months at 14 diplomacy skill, then slowly to 63 months at 20 diplomacy skill
*** The tier of the claimed title depends on secondary rolls:
**** ''Kingdom claim'': Requires the "Become King" [[ambition]], but works on any de jure kingdom. Chancellor must be stationed in a county which is both de jure a part of the kingdom in question and within the demesne of the king. Once per lifetime. The chance of this occurring depends on the value of the Chancellor's diplomacy: 20% chance if Diplomacy is 22 or above, 10% chance if Diplomacy is between 18 and 21, 5% chance if Diplomacy is between 15 and 17, 2% chance if Diplomacy is 14 or below. Costs 2 years' income.
**** ''Duchy claim'': Chancellor must be stationed in a county which is both de jure a part of the duchy in question and within the demesne of the duke. The chance of this occurring depends on the value of the Chancellor's diplomacy: 10% if the chancellor's diplomacy attribute is between 15 and 17, 20% if between 18 and 19, and 30% if 20 or above. Costs 2 years' income.
**** ''County claim'': This is the result if the conditions or rolls for higher title claims fail. Costs 1 year's income.
*** Lose prestige based on your current tier, and lose scaled_wealth based on the tier of the claimed title. You are allowed to go negative.
** '''Failure:''' The target gets an event letting them attempt to assassinate or bribe the chancellor.
*[[File:Job sow dissent.png]] '''Sow Dissent'''
** '''Success:''' A negative temporary opinion modifier both ways from the vassal at the targeted province and his liege.
** '''Failure:''' Discovery and negative opinion of sender.
* '''Improve Clan Sentiment''' (nomads only; replaces '''Fabricate [[Claims]]''')
** '''Success''': Improves the [[Nomadism#Clan sentiment|clan sentiment]] (not the same as regular opinion) of another clan towards yours.

== Marshal ==
=== Abilities ===
*[[File:Job assist arrest.png]] '''Suppress [[Revolt]]s'''
**+1% chance/skill of imprisoning characters in province.
**-1% chance/skill of [[revolt]] in province.
*[[File:Job train troops.png]] '''Train Troops'''
**[[Levy]] size +2.5%/skill. Applies to every holding directly held by the liege in the province.
**Reinforce rate +5%/skill. Applies to every holding directly held by the liege in the province.
**'''Success''': +50% reinforcement rate for 1 year in province.
**'''Failure''': Anger vassal with Ambitious or Deceitful traits, -200% province reinforcement rate for 6 months.
*[[File:Job advance mil tech.png]] '''Research [[Technology#Military Advances|Military Tech]]''' (not available to [[tribes]])
**+5% Military tech spread rate/skill.
**'''Success''': Local lord with 8+ Military skill and either 7+ Diplomacy or Gregarious trait gets improved relations, 50 Military points.
**'''Failure''': Marshal wounded (75% chance) or maimed (25% chance).
*[[File:Job organize raid.png]] '''Organize raid''' (only for tribes; replaces '''Research [[Technology#Military Advances|Military Tech]]''' )
**'''Success''': Get event troops (Three stacks each 2.5% of realm levies, minimum of 100 and maximum of 3000), which must be used to [[raid]] within 5 months or else be disbanded, costing money. Must be at peace to trigger.

== Steward ==
=== Abilities ===
*[[File:Job squeeze peasant.png]] '''Collect [[Economy|Taxes]]''' (not available to tribes or nomads)
** +2.5% tax/skill. Applies to every holding directly held by the liege in the province.
** '''Success''': Get bonus money equal to 50% of annual income. 
** '''Failure''': Steward is chased by peasants and potentially wounded or killed; liege loses 10-15 prestige.
** '''Failure''': Peasants angered; increasing revolt risk and annoying local lords. 
*[[File:Job oversee construction.png]] '''Oversee [[Construction]]'''
** -2.5% construction time/skill.
** '''Success''': Steward becomes permanent Master Builder, reducing construction time by a further 5% wherever present (this continues to apply even if fired from stewardship job).
** '''Failure''': Local noble sabotages building, decreasing relations and increasing build time by 30% for one year. 
*[[File:Job advance eco tech.png]] '''Research [[Technology#Economy Advances|Economy Tech]]''' (not available to tribes)
** +5% Economy tech spread speed/skill, from ''other'' provinces ''to'' this one
*[[File:Job build legend.png]] '''Build Legend''' (only for tribes)
** +0.1 [[Prestige]] per skill per month
** '''Success''': Get event troops (Three stacks, each 7.5% of realm levies, minimum of 100 and maximum of 3000), which must be used in battle within one year (plus or minus three months) or else be disbanded, costing prestige.) Troops are automatically disbanded when war ends, although they will remain if another war was declared before ending the first one. 
*[[File:Job settle tribe.png]] '''Settle Tribe''' (only for tribes)
**'''Success''': Target province converts to owner culture. (Can target only provinces in your own demesne)
**'''Failure''': Steward injured.
* '''Collect Tribute''' (only for nomads)
** Must be sent to a vassal or tributary.
**'''Success''': collected extra income.
**'''Failure''': relations penalty.

== Spymaster ==
=== Abilities ===
*[[File:Job uncover plots.png]] '''Scheme'''
**+1% increased chance of detecting [[plots]] per skill, in a given province<sup>[Who must be in the province? Plotter? Backers? Target?]</sup>
**'''Success:''' An event allowing you to discourage a vassal from being a member of [[factions]] in your realm. (MTTH min 26 months with 17 intrigue skill)
**'''Success:''' An event allowing you to encourage a fellow vassal to join your faction.
**'''Success/Failure:''' Discovers a local character's plot. Survival depends on the plotter's opinion of the spymaster.
**'''Failure:''' The spymaster is attacked by thugs. Survival depends on Martial skill.
*[[File:Job organize spies.png]] '''Build Spy Network'''
**+0.5% [[plot]] power per skill point
**'''Success:''' Liege can attempt to blackmail a male homosexual ruler
**'''Success:''' Liege can accuse a ruler of corruption and attempt to fine them
*[[File:Job study technology.png]] '''Study [[Technology]]'''
**Must be placed in province you do not control, with at least one tech further advanced than your capital.
**Technology spreads from target to capital (faster based on skill) (multiplicative with other councilors in "Research" jobs)
**'''Success:''' Gain 50 tech points in a random field. (Faster with intrigue skill up to 13 and with [[Scholarship]] focus.)
**'''Failure:''' The ruler of the target province discovers the spymaster, likely imprisoning him/her.

=== Bonuses ===

*Discovers plots. If you have no Spymaster, you will not discover any plots.
*If the Spymaster is plotting against you, they won't tell you! It is very important to for your Spymaster to have a high opinion of you. Ideally they also have high ai_honor, although most traits that increase Intrigue skill also decrease ai_honor.
*Removes [[Warfare#Fog of war|fog of war]] from the job province and all neighboring provinces, making both "Study Technology" and "Build Spy Network" useful for scouting.

== Court Chaplain ==

=== Abilities ===
*[[File:Job inquisition.png]] '''Proselytize in own realm'''
**'''Success:''' A vassal or courtier in the province [[Religious conversion|converts]] to your religion (high frequency).
**'''Success:''' The county is [[Religious conversion|converted]] to your religion (low frequency).
*** More likely if councilor has the correct [[culture]] for the province, with high [[moral authority]], and with high skill (up to 13 learning). See [[Religious_conversion#Court_Chaplain_2]] for details.
**'''Failure:''' The chaplain is attacked, being killed or injured. You lose 10 Prestige.
**'''Failure:''' The chaplain accuses a vassal of heresy. The vassal gives you an event in which you can choose to back them up or back up your chaplain. You get an opinion bonus with one and a penalty with the other.
**'''Failure:''' Local population resists conversion, causing increased [[revolt risk]] for 1 year.
*[[File:Job inquisition.png]] '''[[Religious conversion#Proselytize in pagan capital|Proselytize in pagan capital]]'''
**'''Success:''' Allowed to stay. Liege gains 20 piety. (May be imprisoned instead.)
**'''Success:''' Converts pagan courtier. (May be imprisoned afterward.)
**'''Success:''' Attempts to convert pagan ruler. (Expelled if unsuccessful.)
*[[File:Job advance cul tech.png]] '''Research [[Technology#Culture Advances|Cultural Tech]]''' (not available to tribes)
** +5% cultural spread rate/level
** '''Success:''' The chaplain finds a great philosopher. You get an event with the option of paying money to gain 50 Cultural tech points.
** '''Failure:''' The chaplain [[Religious conversion|converts]] to a heresy and gives you an event allowing you to choose to do the same or imprison them. (MTTH falls to 26 years as learning increases to 13) If you choose to practise the heresy in secret, the chaplain will also practise the heresy in secret.
*[[File:Job improve rel relations.png]] '''Improve Religious Relations''' (non-Muslim only)
**'''Success:''' A local religious ruler gives you +40 opinion for two years (high frequency).
*** Useful for your [[religious head]], especially the Pope. Try to pick a province where the Pope personally holds all churches.
**'''Success:''' A local religious ruler gets a -15 opinion penalty toward their religious head.
*** Potentially useful for vassal Catholic bishops, so they pay taxes to you instead of the Pope
*[[File:Job charity.png]] '''Perform Charity''' (Muslim only)
** -1% [[revolt risk]] per skill in the target province.
** '''Success:''' You gain 15 piety (MTTH: 57 months with 13+ skill).
** '''Success:''' Improved relations with vassal of same religion (MTTH: 70 months with 13+ skill, modified by moral authority).
** '''Failure:''' The imam / mullah is attacked by a mob, being wounded or killed.
** '''Failure:''' The imam / mullah embezzles money. You may pardon or imprison him.
*[[File:Job build zeal.png]] '''Build Zeal''' (Tribes only)
** +0.05 [[piety]] per skill per month
** '''Success''': Raise zealot [[event troops]]. Three stacks, each 7.5% of realm levies, minimum of 100 and maximum of 3000. If not used in a religious war within one year (plus or minus three months) or explicitly disbanded, they will leave, costing piety.

== Good traits for councilors ==

Depending on your councilors' skills and traits, they may be able to trigger additional events, regardless of their current mission. <!-- Ref: job_flavor_events.txt, plus the five ze_* conclave event files for each position. I left out some that seemed less important: a few that just let you imprison the councilor, removing bankruptcy province modifiers, tech spread opportunities (these cost way too much), and one where a zealous spiritual gives you an opportunity to burn/banish an infidel/heretic in your court. The conclave "abuse of office" events can neat if they're lowborn councilors whose wealth you'll inherit but that information belongs somewhere else. Also not mentioned: which traits give good statue types in ze_council_events_steward.txt. -->

{|class="wikitable"
! Job !! Councilor requirements !! Liege requirements !! DLC !! Event
|-
| style="background: rgba(40, 51, 65, 0.9); color: #ddd;" | Chancellor || <span style="white-space: nowrap;">12+ skill and<br>{{smart}}</span> || Not tribal or nomadic || || Choice of +25 feudal vassal opinion or +25 republic vassal opinion<br>Capital [[prosperity|prospers]] (if ''[[The Reaper's Due]]'' is enabled)
|-
| style="background: rgba(40, 51, 65, 0.9); color: #ddd;" | Chancellor || {{iconify|Diligent}} || || || Improved opinion from a random vassal, with spouse, or with all courtiers
|-
| style="background: rgba(40, 51, 65, 0.9); color: #ddd;" | Chancellor || {{iconify|Diligent}} or<br>(12+ and {{iconify|Gregarious}}) || Adult<br><span style="white-space: nowrap">None of [[File:Charismatic_negotiator.png]][[File:Grey_eminence.png]][[File:Gregarious.png]]</span> || {{icon|con}} || For a [[favor]], chancellor helps you become multilingual (+1 diplomacy, +1 learning)
|-
|
|-
| style="background: rgba(61, 37, 36, 0.9); color: #ddd;" | Marshal || 12+ skill and<br>{{smart}} || || || Choice of +10% morale (global) or +10% levy size (where marshal is working)<br>Capital prospers
|-
| style="background: rgba(61, 37, 36, 0.9); color: #ddd;" | Marshal || {{iconify|Wroth}} and landless || || || Liege may imprison the marshal for a chance to become {{iconify|Just}}
|-
| style="background: rgba(61, 37, 36, 0.9); color: #ddd;" | Marshal || {{iconify|Diligent}} or<br>{{iconify|Lunatic}} || || {{icon|con}} || Spend 30 wealth on experiments that may yield +50 military [[technology|tech points]]
|-
|
|-
| style="background: rgba(46, 54, 34, 0.9); color: #ddd;" | Steward || 12+ skill and<br>{{smart}} || <50 [[wealth]] ''and'' 2% revolt risk || || Choice of +10% tax income (?) or -5% revolt risk (demesne provinces)<br>Capital prospers
|-
| style="background: rgba(46, 54, 34, 0.9); color: #ddd;" | Steward || {{iconify|Just}} || || || -5% revolt risk in a random demesne province (''Justice Prevails'')
|-
| style="background: rgba(46, 54, 34, 0.9); color: #ddd;" | Steward || {{iconify|Kind}} or<br>{{iconify|Charitable}} || Epidemic in demesne || || <code>reduce_disease = 0.33</code>
|-
| style="background: rgba(46, 54, 34, 0.9); color: #ddd;" | Steward || {{iconify|Greedy}} || || || Liege may seize steward's wealth<br>(Only without ''Conclave'')
|-
| style="background: rgba(46, 54, 34, 0.9); color: #ddd;" | Steward || NOT 8+ skill and<br>{{iconify|Proud}} || Can borrow from Jews<!--approximate--> || {{icon|con}}{{icon|soa}} || -50 wealth via forced loan from Jews, but liege can become more {{iconify|Just}} or more {{iconify|Patient}}
|-
| style="background: rgba(46, 54, 34, 0.9); color: #ddd;" | Steward || 15+ skill and<br>{{iconify|Ambitious}} || || {{icon|con}} || +300 wealth (and possibly a followup request to be granted a county) <!-- If you have an extra demesne county (not your capital and can be given away), the steward will follow up with a request to be granted the county. You can grant it (gaining an additional +200 wealth and becoming more Just), owe the steward a favor instead, or flatly deny the request and become [[rival]]s with the steward. -->
|-
| style="background: rgba(46, 54, 34, 0.9); color: #ddd;" | Steward || 15+ skill and<br><span style="white-space: nowrap;">Any of [[File:Ambitious.png]][[File:Kind.png]][[File:Proud.png]]</span> || Adult<br>Less than 10 stewardship || {{icon|con}} || Join your steward on a full day's work<br>Gain {{iconify|Honest}} and {{iconify|Just}} (or an alternative stewardship bonus)<br>Or leave early to become {{iconify|Greedy}} or {{iconify|Wroth}}, if you prefer.<!--<br>Improve your stewardship by either: replacing any lv1 education <span style="white-space: nowrap;">[[File:Naive_appeaser.png]][[File:Misguided_warrior.png]][[File:Indulgent_wastrel.png]][[File:Amateurish_plotter.png]][[File:Detached_priest.png]]</span> with {{iconify|Thrifty clerk}}, removing {{iconify|Arbitrary}}, gaining {{iconify|Just}}, or gaining 3 base stewardship-->
|-
|
|-
| style="background: rgba(47, 35, 52, 0.9); color: #ddd;" | Spymaster || 12+ skill and<br>{{smart}} || || || Choice of +10% arrest chance or +10% plot power<br>Capital prospers
|-
| style="background: rgba(47, 35, 52, 0.9); color: #ddd;" | Spymaster || {{iconify|Diligent}} or<br>{{iconify|Lunatic}} || || {{icon|con}} || Precautionary safety measures
|-
|
|-
| style="background: rgba(63, 63, 63, 0.9); color: #ddd;" | Spiritual || 12+ skill and<br>{{smart}} || || || Choice of +25 church opinion or +0.1 monthly piety<br>(For Muslims: +0.2 monthly piety)<br>Capital prospers
|-
| style="background: rgba(63, 63, 63, 0.9); color: #ddd;" | Spiritual || {{iconify|Zealous}} and<br>350 wealth || 250 wealth || {{icon|con}} || Spiritual offers to pay 250g toward the construction of a new [[temples|temple]], if you also spend 250g.
|}

== Other trait considerations ==

Councilors have increased plot power against you. Watch out for councilors who have traits that increase inclination to join [[assassination]] plots, such as {{iconify|Deceitful}}. This is especially crucial if they have low opinion of you, high intrigue skill, or the spymaster position.

For the post of Marshal, consider appointing a character with high Martial score, but also have the {{iconify|Craven}} trait, since such characters are usually not good commanders.

With {{icon|con}}''Conclave'':
* {{iconify|Marshal}} and {{iconify|Court Chaplain}} with certain traits may trigger an "abuse of office" event that gives them 100 wealth. This isn't possible for {{iconify|honest}}, {{iconify|kind}} or {{iconify|just}} councilor. If the councilor is a courtier, you'll have an opportunity to [[banishment|seize]] or [[Economy#Inheritance|inherit]] this wealth. This event is more likely if he is {{iconify|greedy}}, {{iconify|arbitrary}} or {{iconify|deceitful}}, and less likely if he is {{iconify|craven}} or {{iconify|slothful}}. Beware: for the {{iconify|Marshal}}, his location province (usually the capital) will get 3 years of peasant unrest modifier giving -50% taxes and 10% revolt risk.
* Councilors who are {{iconify|Content}} are more likely to select the {{iconify|Loyalist}} [[Council vote#Stances|stance]]. On the other hand, content vassals rarely join [[factions]], so they are less important to pacify with council jobs. They are useful to have on the council when voting for law changes.

With {{icon|trd}}''The Reaper's Due'':
*Landed rulers who are {{iconify|Paranoid}} may go into [[seclusion]] even when there is no epidemic [[disease]] present in their capital. They will be unable to trigger mission events or clear fog of war while in seclusion. Frequent seclusion is especially problematic for a Chancellor, as being in seclusion reduces Diplomacy skill.
*You may wish to appoint the same character as Lord Spiritual and [[Court Physician]]. Both depend on learning skill, and the +10 opinion from the council position will sometimes earn you better treatment for your diseases. If you choose to do so, [[Court Physician#Treatment outcome|traits that affect court physician efficacy]] should be your primary concern.

==Applicable to {{icon|con}} [[Conclave]] DLC only==

=== Council power and voting ===
Depending on your '''[[council laws]]''', some actions will require a '''[[council vote]]'''. Bypassing the council's decision is considered an act of [[tyranny]]. Vassals may create a faction to demand increased council power; they are more likely to do so if the council is not empowered.

=== Powerful vassals ===
With the [[Conclave]] DLC active, a player's most '''powerful vassals''' will clamor for a seat on their liege's council. Those who are eligible for a position, but do not have one, get a -40 opinion penalty toward their liege (except if the powerful vassal is in [[hiding]]). This can stack with similar opinion penalties for patricians in a [[merchant republic]] or khans in a [[nomadism|khaganate]].

The maximum number of "powerful vassals" is one less than the maximum number of voting seats; this means that kings and emperors usually have more "powerful vassals" as they can have Advisors. This allows for the fact that most rulers cannot appoint a powerful vassal as Court Chaplain. Also, vassals must have a certain level of military power compared to their liege before they qualify as "powerful".
====Strategies====
*{{icon|hl}} Nomads usually do not have a fixed number of powerful vassals; Khagans should aim for 3 vassal clans (or less, for the 2 Advisor and Marshal slot as nomads tend to have high Martial scores) so that councilors can be chosen based on competency, while khans should choose their CBs carefully while waging war so as not to acquire count or duke vassals.
*Consider manipulating competent vassals to become "powerful" ones by lawfully revoking titles of powerful but incompetent councilors; realms with Iqta or Imperial Administration can do this by redistributing duchies. 
*If not using viceroyalties, consider educating the heirs of powerful vassals so that they can remain in the same council job upon succession.
*Conversely, engineer powerful vassals to enter regencies so that they vacate their seats, allowing you to appoint competent councilors as replacements. In particular, you can fire powerful vassals who went into hiding.
*Consider creating a powerful [[Vassals#Vassal theocracies|vassal theocracy]]. The priest can serve as Lord Spiritual, possibly freeing another council position for a competent sycophant.

=== Councilors not joining factions ===
When the council is empowered to vote on War Declarations, councilors cannot join factions while the council is content. The council is considered ''discontent'' for several years after [[succession]] or tyrannically bypassing a council vote. [[Tribalism|Tribal]] councilors are not prevented from joining factions.

=== Advisors ===
Advisors are extra voting positions in kingdoms and empires. Kings have 1 advisor slot and emperors have 2 slots. The council must be empowered for advisor slots to appear. Advisor seats are only visible in the "My Council" tab.

Advisors do not affect [[Attributes#State attributes|state attributes]] or job action performance, so their skills are unimportant. These seats are typically given to "powerful vassals" whose abilities are too low for any standard council seat. Advisors can be useful as active [[commander]]s, since they are not busy with job actions. Also, note that in the Byzantine and Roman Empire, advisors are considered electors for imperial elective.

Councilors can be swapped into advisor roles instead of being fired. This is useful if a poorly skilled vassal uses a [[favor]] to force their way onto the council, or you wish to make adjustments due to your powerful vassals passing away and their heirs having a different skillset from them. To ensure the correct advisor takes the main council seat, right-click the existing advisor rather than the main councilor. 

During a [[regency]], if the regent happens to be a councilor, swapping the regent/councilor into an Advisor slot can increase the relevant state attribute. However, the regent/Advisor still only has 1 vote when voting on actions to be taken; the other vote defaults to "no" as 1 seat is considered to be empty.

==Applicable to {{icon|mnm}}[[Monks and Mystics]] DLC only==

=== Offmap job actions ===
Every councillor has an additional council job option, which keeps them busy without having them go to a specified place (except for Spymaster, where ''Scheme'' becomes offmap instead).
* {{iconify|Chancellor}} - '''Perform Statecraft''': increases [[threat]] decay speed, and can fire events which improve relations with random vassals, neighbours, or liege.
* {{iconify|Marshal}} - '''Organize the Army''': lowers the upkeep cost of [[retinue]] (or horde), and can fire events to train existing or find new [[commander]]s.
* {{iconify|Steward}} - '''Administer Realm''': increases the speed of [[Culture#Province_conversion|cultural conversion]] in realm provinces, and can fire events adding economic bonuses to any province.
* {{iconify|Spymaster}} - '''Sabotage''': target province will suffer damage, gain unrest, and may even be made easier to siege.
* {{iconify|Court Chaplain}} - '''Hunt Heretics''':  hunts for members of secret societies. If any are caught, you can given several options on how to deal with the character:
**Burn the character at the stake for some Piety
**Imprison the character and brand them.
**Brand them.
**Letting them go free.

===Artifact hunting===
Your councilors can hunt for [[artifacts]], and their traits may affect their success. See [https://www.reddit.com/r/CrusaderKings/comments/68xfnz/best_candidate_for_artifact_hunting/ Selecting councilors for artifact-hunting abilities].
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